X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=88522aaca603c6ccf01a2b34febe6fb7babe3c0b;hp=ab71b7c8d9f5ae644f8b568699286057acaf9641;hb=5356aeb52cca00d53f7708398be6a29a25c2e2fd;hpb=173bcff7f6950a89ee398d6058b4df8e67cf8675 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab71b7c8..88522aac 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,196 @@ -Version 1.8.1-BETA: +Version 1.10.0-BETA: + The LZX compression ratio has been slightly improved. The default mode, + LZX level 50, is now almost as good as the old LZX level 100, while + being nearly the same speed as before. + + Decompression performance has been slightly improved. + + Filenames are now always listed in NTFS collation order. + + On UNIX-like systems, wimlib can now process Windows filenames that are + not valid Unicode due to the presence of unpaired surrogates. + + On UNIX-like systems, wimlib now always assumes UTF-8 encoding with the + addition of surrogate codepoints. Consequently, the environmental + variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_USE_UTF8 and the flag + WIMLIB_INIT_FLAG_ASSUME_UTF8 no longer have any effect. + + wimlib no longer depends on iconv. + + Reduced memory usage slightly. + + When a WIM image is applied in NTFS-3G mode, security descriptors are + now created in NTFS v3.0 format when supported by the volume. + + Workarounds for bugs in libntfs-3g version 2013.1.13 and earlier have + been removed. Users are advised to upgrade to a later version of + libntfs-3g. + + On Windows, wimlib now supports case-sensitive filename extraction when + supported by the underlying operating system and filesystem (operating + system support requires a registry setting). + +Version 1.9.2: + On UNIX, wimlib can now overwrite readonly files when extracting. + + On Windows, fixed a bug where wimlib could leave a null DACL (a.k.a. "no + NTFS permissions") set on some existing directories after extraction. + + On Windows, when applying a WIM image in "WIMBoot mode" when the WOF + driver is not loaded, wimlib can now correctly register a new WIM file + with the target volume when the target volume previously had had WIM + files unregistered. + + Added a new testing program. + + Clarified the main license text and updated public domain dedications + for certain files to be more thorough. + +Version 1.9.1: + Object IDs are now saved and restored on Windows and in NTFS-3G mode. + + Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images. + + Non UTF-8 locales are now detected correctly. + + Addressed compiler warnings and enabled "silent" make rules by default. + + Windows-specific updates: + Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in + link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions. + + Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex wouldn't + work if their full path contained a space. + + Fixed bugs related to scanning SMB filesystems. + + Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder. + + Added instructions for building from source on Windows. + + VSS support is no longer marked "experimental". + + Added missing license file for libdivsufsort-lite. + +Version 1.9.0: + Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). + The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically + create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image. + + Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as + architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now + automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. + + Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows. + + On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens + files by inode number rather than by path. This is enabled for + wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in. + + The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files + have been slightly tweaked. + + Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links. + Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path. + + Added a new '--image-property' option to 'wimcapture', 'wimappend', and + 'wiminfo'. This option lets you assign values to elements in a WIM + file's XML document by name. + + The wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property() API + functions now support numerically indexed elements. + + Fixed a bug where, on Windows, wimlib would change the security + descriptor of the target directory of an extraction even when the + '--no-acls' option was specified. + +Version 1.8.3: + Fixed a bug with libntfs-3g extraction present since v1.8.1. Sometimes, + some Microsoft software would not correctly recognize data in the + resulting filesystem. + + Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms: + LZX compression ratio was slightly improved. + XPRESS compression ratio and speed was slightly improved. + LZMS compression speed was slightly improved. + + Improved handling of WIM XML data. wimlib no longer drops unrecognized + elements when exporting images. In addition, two API functions were + added for better access to elements in the XML document: + wimlib_get_image_property() and wimlib_set_image_property(). + + Added support for (unsafe) in-place compaction of WIM files. + + Improved performance of image export by reusing metadata resources + instead of always rebuilding and recompressing them. + + Improved performance of wimlib_update_image() by delaying the update to + the WIM's XML document until a write is requested. + + On Windows, the target of an extraction may now be a reparse point + (which will be dereferenced). + + On Windows, wimlib now correctly restores non-Microsoft reparse points. + However, this remains broken in NTFS-3g mode due to a libntfs-3g bug. + + On Windows, wimlib now has improved performance when archiving files + from a filesystem backed by a WIM (a "WIMBoot" setup). + + Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support: + + wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the + target volume if needed. + + Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on + older versions of Windows. + + For compatibility with the Windows bootloader, the requested + compression format now is overridden on certain files. + + Other minor bugfixes. + +Version 1.8.2: + This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and + improvements, including: + + Improved handling of deep directory structures. + + Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an + infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way. + + Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report + duplicate streams in an NTFS file. + + Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are + now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location. + + Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved" + field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points. + + On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which + is needed to create externally backed files using the + "wofadk.sys" driver. + + Improved validation of filenames. + + Improved LZMS decompression speed. + + The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings. + + Links have been updated to point to the new website. + + In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing + extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This + functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to + 'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags. + +Version 1.8.1: Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2). + The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean + flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line. + A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive". @@ -14,6 +203,9 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported. + On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with + non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs. + On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver. @@ -28,7 +220,11 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks) is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size. - The performance of NTFS-3g capture mode has been slightly improved. + The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been + slightly improved. + + On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash + character are now handled correctly (losslessly). Version 1.8.0: Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and