X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=a3bee733e9eaa9a3ca9e90d3d39cf100217321ef;hp=61ee7c7598def49a90189fe4d0816d872d55b13b;hb=b3d65ccab09cc7f33380cb5bf43709349d079087;hpb=3c5b7e3b98a10c17880e5f658a0d2ab4f8fcef7b diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 61ee7c75..a3bee733 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,39 @@ Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. +Version 1.2.1: + By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount + --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the + entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the + old behavior. + + 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait + for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead, + every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive, + and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error. + + 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print + progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams + the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM. + + A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve + the compression ratio slightly. + + A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a + WIM image to a NTFS volume. + + Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software, + and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts + for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed + when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a + different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing + the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is + called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with + WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this + requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will + make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images. + + Various other bugfixes. + Version 1.2.0: Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which @@ -14,8 +48,8 @@ Version 1.2.0: A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed. Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from - modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). e.g. You - cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time. + modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example, + you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time. Some functions have been reorganized: * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image().