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                                   WIMLIB
 
-This is wimlib version 1.0.4 (October 2012).  wimlib can be used to read,
-write, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files).  These
-files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on Windows,
-but this library provides a free implementation of imagex for UNIX-based
-systems.
+This is wimlib version 1.1.0 (November 2012).  wimlib can be used to read,
+write, and mount files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM files).  These files
+are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on Windows, but this
+library provides a free implementation of imagex for UNIX-based systems.
 
                                   WIM FILES
 
@@ -47,7 +46,8 @@ wimlib can create XPRESS or LZX compressed WIM archives.  As of wimlib v1.0.3,
 the XPRESS compression ratio is slightly better than that provided by
 Microsoft's software, while the LZX compression ratio is approaching that of
 Microsoft's software but is not quite there yet.  Running time is as good as or
-better than Microsoft's software.
+better than Microsoft's software, especially with multithreaded compression,
+available in v1.1.0 and later.
 
 The following tables compare the compression ratio and performance for creating
 a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size
@@ -62,10 +62,11 @@ a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size
 
        Table 2. Time to create WIM
 
-                                       XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-       wimlib imagex (v1.0.2):         18 sec                  49 sec
-       wimlib imagex (v1.0.3):         19 sec                  30 sec
-       Microsoft imagex.exe:           25 sec                  89 sec
+                                          XPRESS Compression   LZX Compression
+       wimlib imagex (v1.0.2):            18 sec               49 sec
+       wimlib imagex (v1.0.3):            19 sec               30 sec
+       wimlib imagex (v1.1.0, 2 threads): 11 sec               17 sec
+       Microsoft imagex.exe:              25 sec               89 sec
 
                                  NTFS SUPPORT
 
@@ -169,6 +170,11 @@ wimlib's `configure' script:
        the setxattr() function and the attr/xattr.h header be available.  The
        default is to autodetect whether support is possible.
 
+--disable-multithreaded-compression
+       By default, data will be compressed using multiple threads when writing
+       a WIM, unless only 1 processor is detected.  Specify this option to
+       disable support for this.
+
 --enable-ssse3-sha1
        Use a very fast assembly language implementation of SHA1 from Intel.
        Only use this if the build target supports the SSSE3 instructions.