X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6f9859676c34b0990fea7bca4a017180d6853f71;hp=8329afd1c8380405ce0eefaf2122b698d535b821;hb=c43944a2bc3991b6a7f7c16bb383233182ff46a5;hpb=b5ae4e48d30124e356aaf680e19622dc540b3836 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8329afd1..6f985967 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,59 @@ -Version 1.7.3-BETA: +Version 1.8.0: + Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and + provides a slightly better compression ratio. + + Improved the LZMS compressor. It now provides a compression ratio + slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly + less memory. + + The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or + exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB + (67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes). This provides a + better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses. The + memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly + lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still + possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size' + option to wimlib-imagex. + + The '--chunk-size' and '--solid-chunk-size' options to wimlib-imagex now + accept the 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixes. + + Files are now sorted by name extension when creating a solid WIM file. + + Fixed various issues related to capture/apply of EFS-encrypted files on + Windows. + + The file list printed by 'wimdir' is now sorted by the platform-specific + case sensitivity setting, rather than always case sensitively. This + also affects the library function wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(). + + On Windows, some error and warning messages have been improved. + +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. @@ -13,9 +68,8 @@ Version 1.7.3-BETA: The system registry files are now automatically treated as being in [PrepopulateList]. - Added a workaround that tries to prevent short filename conflicts. It - can have an effect primarily on versions of Windows that do not support - removing short names from files (earlier than Windows 7). + 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.