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 image of Windows PE that can be put on a CD or USB drive, or published on a
 server for PXE booting.  See the main page `doc/mkwinpeimg.1' for more details.
 
+There is an additional program, `wimapply', that is not installed by default.
+It can be used to build a small executable with the ability to apply a WIM image
+from a standalone WIM, without having to build the whole shared library.  This
+could be useful on Linux boot clients that only need to be able to apply a WIM,
+not capture/split/join/append/export/mount a WIM.  See `programs/wimapply.c'.
+
                               COMPRESSION RATIO
 
-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, especially with multithreaded compression,
-available in v1.1.0 and later.
+wimlib can create XPRESS or LZX compressed WIM archives.  Currently, the 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, especially with multithreaded compression, available in
+wimlib 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
@@ -56,16 +62,13 @@ a compressed Windows PE image (disk usage of about 524 MB, uncompressed WIM size
        Table 1. WIM size
 
                                        XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-       wimlib imagex (v1.0.2):         145,283,871 bytes       139,288,293 bytes
-       wimlib imagex (v1.0.3):         139,288,293 bytes       131,379,869 bytes
+       wimlib imagex (v1.2.1):         138,971,353 bytes       131,379,943 bytes
        Microsoft imagex.exe:           140,406,981 bytes       127,249,176 bytes
 
        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
-       wimlib imagex (v1.1.0, 2 threads): 11 sec               17 sec
+       wimlib imagex (v1.2.1, 2 threads): 11 sec               17 sec
        Microsoft imagex.exe:              25 sec               89 sec
 
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