X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=1ff7d62c3bcd331599d6463b441afe8578c727a8;hp=2198d08ab1a2a20c537e21213a7c1e446f2e5ae4;hb=c3648a1bf94a11ee6eff22cb728f0efe3f4500e9;hpb=472366c8db7cef3eaad9eea3c08048b726db525e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2198d08a..1ff7d62c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,61 +1,115 @@ -Version 1.7.1-BETA: +Version 1.7.5-BETA: + The performance of LZX compression has been improved by 15-20%. This is + the default compression mode of wimlib-imagex. - Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an - incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely - event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or - earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it - with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with - v1.7.1. +Version 1.7.4: + The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs. + These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL. - The performance of LZX compression in its default settings has been - improved by a further 5-10%. + Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM. - The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in - its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'. + Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if + the target files do not yet exist. - You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the - '--compress' or '--solid-compress' options; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'. - Currently, the default level in all cases is 50. This capability - deprecates the '--compress-slow' (or '--recompress-slow') option to - several wimlib-imagex commands. + Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression. + + Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds. + It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors. + + Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions + configure options. + +Version 1.7.3: + Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files. + + Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM. + + New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications + may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal. + + The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed + by a read-only WIM file. + + Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only): + + When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the + disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions. + + When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of + each file are now considered. + + The system registry files are now automatically treated as being + in [PrepopulateList]. + + Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in + Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver. + +Version 1.7.2: + Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors. + + A number of improvements to the Windows port: + + Fixes for setting short filenames. + + Faster "WIMBoot" extraction. - The '--pack-streams', '--pack-compress', and '--pack-chunk-size' options - to several wimlib-imagex commands have been deprecated in favor of more - "standard" names: '--solid', '--solid-compress', and - '--solid-chunk-size', respectively. + Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs. - The XPRESS compressor no longer supports chunks larger than 65536 bytes. - There is little point in having larger chunks, since the LZ77 sliding - window for XPRESS cannot be larger than 65536 bytes. This change does - not affect the default XPRESS chunk size, which is 32768. + ACL inheritence bits are now restored. - The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file - handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files. + Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored. + + Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create + a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows + after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode. Library changes: + Added file count progress data for + WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and + WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA. - Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library - in favor of the simpler level-based API. + Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided + progress function. - Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely. + Some documentation improvements. - The maximum XPRESS chunk size has been reduced, as mentioned - above. + Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file. - Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library - multiple times in one run of an application program. +Version 1.7.1: + Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors. - Library users will now receive WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS - and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_STREAMS messages more frequently - when writing or extracting large WIM files. + The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in + its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'. - Added experimental new write flag: - WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES. + You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the + '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'. + + Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an + incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely + event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or + earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it + with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with + v1.7.1. + + Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex. + + Notable library changes: + + Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library + in favor of the simpler level-based API. + + Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely. Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of standard error. + New progress messages: + WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE, + WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA. + + New function: wimlib_verify_wim(). + Version 1.7.0: Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.