X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c415e0a24301f7817c726cb176156e946704bb2f;hp=bd50c5895451596ab7f1edf9bc9269d3eafd1afe;hb=ca9d58ea6cecbfc445588aff2f1950bf3da4d444;hpb=91ba045392c18b7e12add95158cd2ab67c1505ae diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bd50c589..c415e0a2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,14 @@ Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. -Version 1.6.2 (BETA): +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, specifically Windows + 8.1 Update 1 and later, 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, respectively, for more information. + +Version 1.6.2: Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly. @@ -8,14 +16,14 @@ Version 1.6.2 (BETA): wimunmount now provides the '--new-image' option to cause changes to a read-write mounted image to be committed as a new image rather than as - an update of the same image. (The corresponding new library flag is + an update of the mounted image. (The corresponding new library flag is WIMLIB_UNMOUNT_FLAG_NEW_IMAGE.) - The LZMS compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may now be up to - 1 GiB (2^30). + The LZMS ("recovery") compression chunk size, or "dictionary size", may + now be up to 1 GiB (1,073,741,824 bytes). - The performance of LZX and LZMS compression with large chunk sizes has - been slightly improved. + The performance of LZX ("maximum") and LZMS ("recovery") compression + with large chunk sizes has been slightly improved. Version 1.6.1: Stored files with size exactly 4 GiB (4,294,967,296 bytes) are now