X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4bda7ea3f59706f5a6e11b0d0f7696cb5e0962d0;hp=5a4d7ba2718c6a704026d6f1afdad53511512831;hb=8a1b5f46145cc8be56ce09eec1513db079b86bc7;hpb=f314ecfa09440cad0dda8403c9d0dbb9afc802b5 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5a4d7ba2..4bda7ea3 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,108 @@ -Version 1.8.3-BETA: +Version 1.9.2-BETA: + On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting. + + On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no + NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction. + + On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF + driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file + with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM + files unregistered. + + Added a new testing program. + + Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications + for certain files to be more thorough. + +Version 1.9.1: + Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode. + + Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images. + + Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly. + + Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default. + + Windows-specific updates: + Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in + link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions. + + Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't + work if their full path contained a space. + + Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems. + + Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder. + + Added instructions for building from source on Windows. + + VSS support is no longer marked "experimental". + + Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite. + +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. + + Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as + architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now + automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. + + 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 + file's XML document by name. + + The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API + functions now support numerically indexed elements. + + Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security + descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the + '--no-acls' option was specified. + +Version 1.8.3: Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes, some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the - resulting filesystem. Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM - extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2. + resulting filesystem. + + Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms: + LZX compression ratio was slightly improved. + XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved. + LZMS compression speed was slightly improved. + + Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized + elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were + added for better access to elements in the XML document: + wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property(). + + Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files. + + Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources + instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them. + + Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to + the WIM's XML document until a write is requested. + + On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point + (which will be dereferenced). + + On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points. + However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug. + + On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files + from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup). Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support: @@ -12,8 +112,10 @@ Version 1.8.3-BETA: Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on older versions of Windows. - For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, XPRESS4K - compression is now automatically forced on certain files. + For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested + compression format now is overridden on certain files. + + Other minor bugfixes. Version 1.8.2: This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and