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@@ -1,28 +1,60 @@
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
-Version 1.6.3-BETA:
-	Added support for "WIMBoot".  On any platform, you can now capture a WIM
-	as WIMBoot-compatible.  In addition, on Windows, you can now apply a WIM
-	archive in a special mode that causes extracted files to be externally
-	backed by the WIM archive.  See the documentation for the new
-	'--wimboot' option to wimcapture and wimapply for more information.
+Version 1.7.0-BETA:
+	Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files:
+	    - Add support for reading and writing multiple solid blocks per
+	      archive, which WIMGAPI/DISM can create when appending an image.
+	    - Correctly create solid blocks larger than 4 GiB.
+
+	Improved decompression, compression, and extraction performance.
 
 	'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing
 	nondirectory files by default.  Use the --no-replace option to get the
 	old behavior.
 
-	Improved compatibility with version 3584 WIM / ESD files.
+	Added support for "WIMBoot" capture and extraction.  See the
+	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.
+
+	WIMs will now retain their GUIDs when rebuilt (e.g. with wimoptimize).
 
 	The 'mkwinpeimg' script now supports writing the ISO image to standard
 	output.
 
-	The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only a
-	few incompatibilities:
+	The <ARCH> element in WIM XML data will now be exported correctly.
+
+	On Windows, sparse file attributes are no longer set on extracted files.
+	Oddly enough, this actually saves disk space in some cases.
+
+	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:
 
 		- WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and
 		  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(),
@@ -32,6 +64,21 @@ Version 1.6.3-BETA:
 		- Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions,
 		  wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata().
 
+		- Removed extraction flags: WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_HARDLINK,
+		  WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SYMLINK, WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER,
+		  and WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL.
+
+		- Removed progress messages:
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_APPLY_TIMESTAMPS,
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_BEGIN,
+		  WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_DIR_STRUCTURE_END.  Numbering
+		  stays the same.
+
+		- Removed some error codes.  Numbering stays the same.
+
+		- Replaced WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_LAZY with
+		  WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_FORCE.
+
 		- WIM paths passed to progress functions now have a leading
 		  slash.