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 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 

+Version 1.4.0:
+       Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along
+       with associated APIs in the library.  These commands are intended mainly
+       for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well.
+
+       Many documentation improvements.
+
+       Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not
+       captured in reparse-point fixup mode.
+
+       Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to
+       the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases.
+
+       Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing
+       split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash.
+
+       Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead
+       of the last modification time.
+
+       With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing
+       symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings
+       about not being able to extract the symbolic links.
+
+Version 1.3.3:
+       Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases
+       due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading
+       files twice whenever possible.
+
+       The Windows build should now work on Windows XP.
+
+       The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden,
+       compressed, sparse, and encrypted files.
+
+       The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from
+       filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality).
+
+       The Windows build now extracts short names correctly.
+
+       Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic
+       links).  See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex
+       capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'.
+
+       The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly
+       improved.
+
+       The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now
+       exported from the library.
+
+Version 1.3.2:
+       Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build.
+
+       Added --strict-acls options.
+
+       Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM.
+
+Version 1.3.1:
+       Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of
+       ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with
+       Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file
+       name ("imagex.exe").  If you really don't like this you can pass the
+       --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name,
+       or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will
+       configure the man pages to use the chosen name).
+
+       Various bugs fixed in the Windows build.  Mainly to do with capturing
+       and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and
+       requesting the correct privileges when opening files.  Also added the
+       --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply.
+
+       Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now
+       dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows
+       XP (however, there may still be other problems).
+
+Version 1.3.0:
+       Added experimental support for native Windows builds.  Binaries can be
+       downloaded from the SourceForge page.
+
+       --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'.
+
+       Better support for different character encodings.
+
+Version 1.2.6:
+       Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now
+       possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag.
+
+       Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes.
+
+Version 1.2.5:
+       NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points.
+
+       NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one
+       (print warning instead of error).
+
+       Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check).
+
+Version 1.2.4:
+       Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE
+       from the WAIK.
+
+       Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13.
+
+Version 1.2.3:
+       Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write
+       mounted WIM image.
+
+       Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes.
+
+Version 1.2.2:
+       LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations
+       and should now be even faster.  (Although, they were already pretty
+       fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.)
+
+       Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree
+       containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases.
+

 Version 1.2.1:
        By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
        --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the
 Version 1.2.1:
        By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount
        --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the


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        A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
        the compression ratio slightly.
 
        A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve
        the compression ratio slightly.
 

+       A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a
+       WIM image to a NTFS volume.
+

        Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
        and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
        for some streams.  This is unsafe because such streams can be removed
        Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software,
        and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts
        for some streams.  This is unsafe because such streams can be removed


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        requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
        make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
 
        requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will
        make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images.
 

+       Various other bugfixes.
+

 Version 1.2.0:
        Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
        the whole WIM.  Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which
 Version 1.2.0:
        Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building
        the whole WIM.  Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which