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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
-Version 1.6.3-BETA:
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
 	Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
 
 	Performance improvements, including for extraction.
@@ -13,6 +13,18 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
 	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.
 
@@ -21,8 +33,14 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
 	The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
 	output.
 
+	The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data will now be exported correctly.
+
 	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:
 
@@ -30,6 +48,9 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
 		  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(),