X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=47b5d63343bf272e5cba24a7ed9347b6980210a8;hp=2eef07bdd324950dfae2115d9e9855bdd226ab3b;hb=036c7da59a54e9a24b1afb917b4f9f10eee176ee;hpb=56dcd8f3979d785b3b3caefbb7a20013877993d0 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2eef07bd..47b5d633 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,21 +1,35 @@ Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. Version 1.6.3-BETA: + 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing + nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the + old behavior. + + Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files. + + Improved extraction performance on Windows, especially for ESD files. + Added support for "WIMBoot". On any platform, you can now capture a WIM - as WIMBoot-compatible. In addition, on Windows, specifically Windows - 8.1 Update 1 and later, you can now apply a WIM archive in a special - mode that causes extracted files to be externally backed by the WIM - archive. See the documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to - wimcapture and wimapply, respectively, for more information. + as WIMBoot-compatible. In addition, on Windows, you can now apply a WIM + archive in a special mode that causes extracted files to be externally + backed by the WIM archive. See the documentation for the new + '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply for more information. - The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only - a few incompatibilities: + WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize). + + The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard + output. + + On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files. + + The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only a + few incompatibilities: - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as WIMGAPI). - - 'struct' wimlib_capture_config has been removed. The library + - 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed. The library now takes the path to the configuration file directly. This affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(), and wimlib_update_image(). However no code changes are @@ -24,7 +38,10 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA: - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions, wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata(). - Otherwise the API and ABI is the same. + - WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading + slash. + + Made some documentation improvements. Version 1.6.2: Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing