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                                   INTRODUCTION
 
-This is wimlib version 1.4.0 (May 2013).  wimlib is a C library for creating,
+This is wimlib version 1.5.0 (August 2013).  wimlib is a C library for creating,
 modifying, extracting, and mounting files in the Windows Imaging Format (WIM
 files).  These files are normally created by using the `imagex.exe' utility on
 Windows, but wimlib is distributed with a free implementation of ImageX called
@@ -65,21 +65,21 @@ 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 x86_64 Windows PE image.  Note: these timings were done in a
-Windows 7 virtual machine so that the times would be fully comparable; however,
-wimlib-imagex will have even better performance on Linux.
+a compressed x86_64 Windows PE image.  Note: these timings were done on Windows
+7 so that the times would be fully comparable; however, wimlib-imagex may have
+even better performance on Linux.
 
         Table 1. WIM size
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0):            176,724,198 bytes       165,919,718 bytes
-        Microsoft imagex.exe:              178,763,991 bytes       160,138,533 bytes
+        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0):            165,301,379 bytes       155,254,385 bytes
+        Microsoft imagex.exe:              167,212,939 bytes       149,973,212 bytes
 
         Table 2. Time to create WIM
 
                                            XPRESS Compression      LZX Compression
-        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 44 sec                  66 sec
-        Microsoft imagex.exe:              60 sec                  115 sec
+        wimlib-imagex (v1.4.0, 2 threads): 18 sec                  51 sec
+        Microsoft imagex.exe:              25 sec                  93 sec
 
                                   NTFS SUPPORT
 
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@ you do not have libntfs-3g 2011-4-12 or later available, you must configure
 wimlib with --without-ntfs-3g.  On FreeBSD, before mounting a WIM you need to
 load the POSIX message queue module (run `kldload mqueuefs').
 
-wimlib has not been tested on big-endian CPU architectures.
+The code has primarily been tested on x86 and x86_64 CPUs, but it's written to
+be portable to other architectures and I've also tested it on ARM.  However,
+although the code is written to correctly deal with endianness, it has not yet
+actually been tested on a big-endian architecture.
 
                                    REFERENCES