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-Version 1.7.1-BETA:
-	Made more improvements to the compression algorithms.
+Version 1.7.2-BETA:
+	More compression performance improvements.
 
-	The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
-	its default mode, which is the the same as '--compress=maximum'.
+	Fixes for setting short names on Windows.
 
-	You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
-	'--compress' or '--solid-compress' options; e.g.  '--compress=lzx:75'.
-	Currently, the default level in all cases is 50.  This capability
-	deprecates the '--compress-slow' (or '--recompress-slow') option to
-	several wimlib-imagex commands.
+	Faster "WIMBoot" extraction on Windows.
 
-	The '--pack-streams', '--pack-compress', and '--pack-chunk-size' options
-	to several wimlib-imagex commands have been deprecated in favor of more
-	"standard" names: '--solid', '--solid-compress', and
-	'--solid-chunk-size', respectively.
+	Updated dependent DLLs in Windows release.  libxml2 is slimmed down.
 
-	The XPRESS compressor no longer supports chunks larger than 65536 bytes.
-	There is little point in having larger chunks, since the LZ77 sliding
-	window for XPRESS cannot be larger than 65536 bytes.  This change does
-	not affect the default XPRESS chunk size, which is 32768.
+	Library changes:
+		Added file count progress data for
+		WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE and
+		WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
 
-	The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file
-	handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files.
+		Added support for testing file exclusions via the user-provided
+		progress function.
 
-	Library changes:
+		Some documentation improvements.
 
-		Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
-		in favor of the simpler level-based API.
+Version 1.7.1:
+	Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors.
 
-		Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
+	The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in
+	its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'.
 
-		The maximum XPRESS chunk size has been reduced, as mentioned
-		above.
+	You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the
+	'--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'.
+
+	Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an
+	incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation.  In the unlikely
+	event that you created an LZMS-compressed WIM with wimlib v1.7.0 or
+	earlier and a checksum error is reported when extracting files from it
+	with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with
+	v1.7.1.
 
-		Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library
-		multiple times in one run of an application program.
+	Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex.
 
-		Library users will now receive WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS
-		and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_STREAMS messages more frequently
-		when writing or extracting large WIM files.
+	Notable library changes:
+
+		Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library
+		in favor of the simpler level-based API.
 
-		Added experimental new write flag:
-		WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES.
+		Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely.
 
 		Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and
 		error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of
 		standard error.
 
+		New progress messages:
+		WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_FILE_STRUCTURE,
+		WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_METADATA.
+
+		New function: wimlib_verify_wim().
+
 Version 1.7.0:
 	Improved compression, decompression, and extraction performance.