X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=08e97a483ec94931a37a200342a6457bbbb26290;hp=82632cd41a24c953c11b8284da763b52092cfb12;hb=b3d0fd77eb71d6e20eddfac6586c16418f46e1be;hpb=beccb94c715de2543d0b82c71dba09dc96068633 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 82632cd4..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. @@ -7,13 +7,17 @@ Version 1.9.0-BETA: architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. - Significantly improved performance of directory scans of full NTFS - volumes on Windows 8 and later. + 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