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-Version 1.8.3-BETA:
+Version 1.8.4-BETA:
+	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.
+
+	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.
+
+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.  Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM
-	extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2.
+	resulting filesystem.
 
-	Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms.
+	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 and added two new API functions:
+	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
@@ -22,6 +53,8 @@ Version 1.8.3-BETA:
 		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: