X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=47b5d63343bf272e5cba24a7ed9347b6980210a8;hp=d69f6286e3ae58954d3018269dd61901f46d8911;hb=036c7da59a54e9a24b1afb917b4f9f10eee176ee;hpb=b838675b420f13b3771b91b4ab2d5eddc3e6492f diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d69f6286..47b5d633 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,18 +1,26 @@ 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, 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. - 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing - nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the - old behavior. + WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize). - Fixed reading out-of-order entries in lookup table of version 3584 WIM / - ESD files. + 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: @@ -30,6 +38,11 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA: - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions, wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata(). + - 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 UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly.