X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=5f5aa19b071bd75723ac4bf2022fbe7c49393da3;hp=d96c6a5f4fa06a5df449996293b498acc88d63c9;hb=94f8de6d411d58a0eb2e472cc1b984f195eb2447;hpb=f25a0797a77b9460bb8a645e83a664b4f0caddf1 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d96c6a5f..5f5aa19b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,63 @@ -Version 1.7.2-BETA: +Version 1.7.4: + The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs. + These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL. + + Added more fixes for wimlib on non-x86 architectures such as ARM. + + Extracting files to a Windows PE in-memory filesystem no longer fails if + the target files do not yet exist. + + Improved the performance of XPRESS compression and LZMS decompression. + + Enabled SSSE3 accelerated SHA-1 computation in x86_64 Windows builds. + It will automatically be faster on newer Intel and AMD processors. + + Removed the --with-imagex-progname and --enable-more-assertions + configure options. + +Version 1.7.3: + Fix for very slow export from solid WIM / ESD files. + + Fix for LZX and LZMS algorithms on non-x86 architectures, such as ARM. + + New progress message: WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_HANDLE_ERROR. Applications + may use this to treat some types of errors as non-fatal. + + The library now permits making in-memory changes to a WIMStruct backed + by a read-only WIM file. + + Fixes for "WIMBoot" extraction mode (Windows only): + + When not using the WOF driver, extraction no longer fails if the + disk containing the WIM file has too many partitions. + + When matching patterns in [PrepopulateList], all hard links of + each file are now considered. + + The system registry files are now automatically treated as being + in [PrepopulateList]. + + Added a hack to try to work around an intermittent bug in + Microsoft's WOF (Windows Overlay Filesystem) driver. + +Version 1.7.2: Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors. - Fixes for setting short names on Windows. + A number of improvements to the Windows port: - Faster "WIMBoot" extraction on Windows. + Fixes for setting short filenames. - Updated dependent DLLs in Windows release. libxml2 is slimmed down. + Faster "WIMBoot" extraction. - ACL inheritance bits are now restored on Windows. + Updated and slimmed down the dependent DLLs. + + ACL inheritence bits are now restored. + + Mandatory integrity labels are now backed up and restored. + + Added a workaround for an issue where in rare cases, wimlib could create + a compressed data stream that could not be read correctly by Windows + after an extraction in "WIMBoot" mode. Library changes: Added file count progress data for @@ -19,6 +69,8 @@ Version 1.7.2-BETA: Some documentation improvements. + Made some clarifications to the license text in the COPYING file. + Version 1.7.1: Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.