X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0917d65e893ce78bd27b730172d42ac264826f86;hp=644d10f120bbef6b559822d6e2700be58ba9f499;hb=a8343baff22193be4651a3a63b07cb1520ced4e8;hpb=e5a57ce54a643464c54d74b89a594f9e42fe3097 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 644d10f1..0917d65e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,33 @@ -Version 1.8.1-BETA: +Version 1.8.2-BETA: + This release contains various minor bug fixes and improvements, + including: + + Reduced the stack space used by directory tree scans. + + Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an + infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way. + + Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are + now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location. + + Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved" + field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points. + + Improved validation of filenames. + + Fixed the test scripts to work in a Turkish locale. + + Fixed handling of EINTR during data I/O. + + Optimized memory usage of some data structures. + +Version 1.8.1: Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2). + The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean + flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line. + A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive". @@ -14,6 +40,9 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported. + On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with + non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs. + On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver. @@ -25,6 +54,15 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: link bytes" image statistics (stored in the WIM XML data) is calculated has been slightly changed. + In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks) + is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size. + + The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been + slightly improved. + + On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash + character are now handled correctly (losslessly). + Version 1.8.0: Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and provides a slightly better compression ratio.