X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5dc380203b063492ed8d64a177da1da5c8f1649a;hp=a0d271b6741ee5ad8b355dd3342d84a7eddb1fc7;hb=e0d3f9cd10e8517f5b9a46acdb7c7f715cffa6d9;hpb=811f0b5538c0e7ea50e4b62b61194c783c0f209e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a0d271b6..5dc38020 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,94 @@ Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. +Version 1.5.3: + The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now + enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run + *without* the '--compress' option, in which case the faster LZX + compressor is used (the same as before). This behavior is reasonably + consistent with ImageX which actually uses "fast" (XPRESS) compression + by default. In those cases, use '--compress=maximum' to explicitly + capture a WIM image using the new (slower but better) LZX compressor. + + The '--compress-slow' option still exists to `wimlib-imagex optimize', + but its new behavior is to tweak the new LZX compressor even more to + produce an even better compression ratio at the cost of more time spent + compressing. + + `wimlib-imagex optimize' now supports the '--compress=TYPE' option, + which recompresses the WIM file using the specified compression TYPE. + The new library API function used for this is + wimlib_set_output_compression_type(). + + Added the wimlib_get_xml_data() function to allow library clients to + easily retrieve the raw XML data from a WIM file if needed. + + Fixed a bug that could cause an error code to be incorrectly returned + when writing XML data containing a element. + + Mounted WIM images will now correctly show the default file stream even + if appears in the alternate data stream entries of the corresponding WIM + directory entry. + +Version 1.5.2: + Added a new experimental LZX compressor which can be enabled by passing + '--compress-slow' to `wimlib-imagex capture' or `wimlib-imagex + optimize'. (The latter is only applicable if the WIM is already + LZX-compressed and the '--recompress' option is also given.) The + experimental compressor is much slower but compresses the data slightly + more --- currently usually to within a fraction of a percent of the + results from WIMGAPI/ImageX. + + A workaround has been added for compatibility with versions of WinPE + that interpret alternate data stream entries in the boot WIM + incorrectly. + + An alignment bug that caused a crash in the LZX decompressor on some + builds was fixed. + + wimlib now attempts to clear the WIM_HDR_FLAG_WRITE_IN_PROGRESS flag in + the WIM header when restoring the previous state of a WIM it failed to + successfully update. + + Added a workaround to avoid an access denied error on Windows when + replacing a WIM file that another process has opened. + +Version 1.5.1: + wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that + needed to be handled. + + A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the + --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and + `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed. + + A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors + with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g + 2013.1.13 or earlier. + + `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option + multiple times. + Version 1.5.0: - Added support for "pipable" WIMs. This support allows capturing images - to standard output or applying images from standard input, but they are + Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images + to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default. - See documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for more - information. Two new functions have been added to the library to fully - support this: wimlib_write_to_fd() and wimlib_extract_image_from_pipe(). + See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for + more information. + + To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an + image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for + the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex + capture'. + + Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the + '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'. - wimlib now preserve WIM integrity tables by default, even if + The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support + other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This + change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the + '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as + mentioned above. + + wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified. @@ -18,36 +98,30 @@ Version 1.5.0: ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some speed. - For convenience, `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as - wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; - for example, it can be invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to - `wimlib-imagex apply'. The appropriate hard links are created in UNIX - installations of `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of - `wimlib-imagex', batch files that emulate this behavior are generated. - - `wimlib-imagex' no longer recognizes the 'mount', 'mountrw', and - 'unmount' commands on Windows, since they didn't work on Windows anyway. + `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND + is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be + invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The + appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of + `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex', + batch files that emulate this behavior are generated. Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows. - `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather - than the WAIK itself. - - The test suite no longer fails when run in a locale where the decimal - separator is not a period. - - WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DENTRY has been removed and - WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_VERBOSE re-reserved for future use. + Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode. The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX, and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is now supported on all backends, not just UNIX. - A few changes were made to the error codes returned by library routines. + `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather + than the WAIK itself. + + wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional + privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this. - This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it - doesn't quite not maintain binary compatibility with previous releases. + This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is + not binary compatibible with previous releases. Version 1.4.2: Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an