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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,17 +1,55 @@
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
-Version 1.6.3-BETA:
-	Added support for "WIMBoot".  On any platform, you can now capture a WIM
-	as WIMBoot-compatible.  In addition, on Windows, specifically Windows
-	8.1 Update 1 and later, 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, respectively, for more information.
-
-	The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only
-	small incompatibilities:
-
-		- 'struct' wimlib_capture_config has been removed.  The library
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
+	Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+
+	Performance improvements, including for extraction.
+
+	'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
+	nondirectory files by default.  Use the --no-replace option to get the
+	old behavior.
+
+	Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction.  See the
+	documentation for the new '--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply
+	for more information.
+
+	On UNIX-like systems, you can now backup and restore device nodes, named
+	pipes, and sockets.  In addition, 32-bit user and group IDs are now
+	supported.
+
+	The way that UNIX data is stored in WIM files has been changed.  If you
+	captured any WIMs with the --unix-data option, to upgrade them you'll
+	need to apply them with --unix-data using wimlib-imagex v1.6.2, then
+	re-capture them with --unix-data using this version.
+
+	wimlib now understands tagged metadata items, such as object IDs, that
+	can be stored in WIM directory entries.
+
+	Removed the --hardlink and --symlink options to wimapply, since I don't
+	think they are too useful and they got in the way of improving the code.
+
+	WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
+
+	The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
+	output.
+
+	On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+
+	On UNIX, configuring with --disable-xattr or --enable-xattr is no longer
+	supported.  Mounting WIM images now always requires extended attribute
+	support.  Use --without-fuse to disable support for mounting WIM images.
+
+	The shared library version has been bumped up.  The main
+	incompatibilities are:
+
+		- WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
+		  WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as
+		  WIMGAPI).
+
+		- Progress functions, including their prototypes as well as how
+		  they are provided to the library, have been changed.
+
+		- 'struct wimlib_capture_config' has been removed.  The library
 		  now takes the path to the configuration file directly.  This
 		  affects wimlib_add_image(), wimlib_add_image_multisource(),
 		  and wimlib_update_image().  However no code changes are
@@ -20,7 +58,17 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
 		- Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
 		  wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
 
-		Otherwise the API and ABI is the same.
+		- Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
+		  WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, and
+		  WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER.
+
+		- Removed progress messages:
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END.
+
+		- WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
+		  slash.
 
 Version 1.6.2:
 	Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing