X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=50c2131339657a7c0cf6e9666837b3f21227abf1;hp=7b4a0e37ee11b7bf7e78f83197a998f4354e2c89;hb=fb9de673c23ece7e273d93a46c49e65cbe20a99a;hpb=9285ed562c208959e0d5034e0ab4289cc40a31a2 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7b4a0e37..50c21313 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,14 @@ -Version 1.8.1-BETA: +Version 1.8.2-BETA: + Fixed a bug: on 32-bit systems, the library would enter an infinite loop + if WIM image metadata was malformed in a very specific way. + +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 +21,9 @@ 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. @@ -21,6 +31,19 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: The '--enable-verify-compression' configure option has been removed. If you want to verify a WIM file, use the 'wimverify' program. + The way the "file count", "directory count", "total bytes", and "hard + 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.