X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=08e97a483ec94931a37a200342a6457bbbb26290;hp=7ce0ccc30dff77e66c6f4baf3b0303cc7cd77ea3;hb=43a5725a59b3e5a55ba41ffe988b9bc9430225a4;hpb=542225070ab6583b6f5915172425cac6e0326d77 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7ce0ccc3..08e97a48 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Version 1.9.0-BETA: +Version 1.9.0: Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image. @@ -7,6 +7,18 @@ Version 1.9.0-BETA: architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. + Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows. + + On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens + files by inode number rather than by path. This is enabled for + wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in. + + The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files + have been slightly tweaked. + + Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links. + Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path. + Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and 'wiminfo'. This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM file's XML document by name.