X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d03c156a7548cd617831c19b4aec2941c4b48ecd;hp=035c50a0086d5315fc518485cfc6c82fb416f0c1;hb=434a810e749d39b93b1d52d97daf6cb36151b1df;hpb=53b75051f0e9cde007101eeca37cbe3884e03f18 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 035c50a0..d03c156a 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,216 @@ -Version 1.7.4-BETA: +Version 1.9.1-BETA: + Added support for object IDs, which are a type of metadata sometimes + present on NTFS filesystems. They are used by some Windows software, + such as the Distributed Link Tracking Service. Object IDs are now + captured and applied both in NTFS-3g mode and on Windows when supported + by the filesystem. + + Reduced memory usage when exporting large numbers of WIM images. + + Made some minor build-related updates. Notably, enabled "silent" make + rules; this makes the output cleaner when building from source. + + Some Windows-specific updates: + Fixed a bug where duplicate backslashes could be generated in + link targets when extracting symbolic links and junctions. + + Fixed a bug where the .cmd shortcuts for wimlib-imagex would not + work if their full path contained a space. + + Fixed bugs when capturing a WIM image from a SMB filesystem. + + Added warning message about known issue with WindowsApps folder. + + Added instructions for building from source on Windows. + + VSS support is no longer marked "experimental". + +Version 1.9.0: + Added experimental support for Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service). + The new '--snapshot' argument to 'wimcapture' makes wimlib automatically + create and use a temporary VSS snapshot when capturing a WIM image. + + Implemented setting of Windows-specific XML information, such as + architecture, system root, and version details. This information is now + automatically set in newly captured WIM images, when appropriate. + + Improved performance of directory tree scans on Windows. + + On Windows, to improve capture performance, wimlib now sometimes opens + files by inode number rather than by path. This is enabled for + wimcapture and wimappend, but for now other applications have to opt-in. + + The progress messages printed by wimlib-imagex while writing WIM files + have been slightly tweaked. + + Progress information for directory tree scans now counts all hard links. + Also, on Windows "\\?\" is no longer stripped from the current path. + + 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. + + 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. + +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. + + 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. 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 + target volume if needed. + + Compact-mode extractions now work correctly with wofadk.sys on + older versions of Windows. + + 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: + + Improved handling of deep directory structures. + + Fixed a bug where on 32-bit systems, the library could enter an + infinite loop if a WIM file was malformed in a specific way. + + Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report + duplicate streams in an NTFS file. + + Windows symbolic links and junctions in mounted WIM images are + now automatically rewritten to be valid in the mounted location. + + Reparse point fixes: correctly handle the "ReparseReserved" + field, and correctly handle "empty" (data-less) reparse points. + + On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which + is needed to create externally backed files using the + "wofadk.sys" driver. + + Improved validation of filenames. + + Improved LZMS decompression speed. + + The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings. + + Links have been updated to point to the new website. + + In addition, experimental support has been added for compressing + extracted files using System Compression on Windows 10. This + functionality is available through the new '--compact' option to + 'wimapply' and 'wimextract' as well as new library flags. + +Version 1.8.1: + Fixed a bug in the LZX decompressor: malicious input data could cause + out of bounds writes to memory (since wimlib v1.2.2). + + The output of the 'wiminfo' command now consolidates various boolean + flags (such as "Relative path junction") into a single line. + + A file can now have both an unnamed data stream ("file contents") and a + reparse point stream. Such files can exist as a result of the use of + certain Windows features, such as offline storage, including "OneDrive". + wimlib will now store and restore both streams on Windows as well as in + NTFS-3g mode. Microsoft's WIMGAPI also has this behavior. + + On Windows, named data streams of encrypted files are no longer stored + twice in WIM archives. + + On Windows, named data streams are now correctly extracted to existing + "readonly" directories. Before, an error would be reported. + + On Windows, it is now possible to do a "WIMBoot mode" extraction with + non-standalone WIMs such as delta WIMs. + + On Windows, when doing an extraction in "WIMBoot mode", files larger + than 4 gigabytes are now never extracted as externally backed. This + works around a bug in Microsoft's "WOF" driver. + + The '--enable-verify-compression' configure option has been removed. If + you want to verify a WIM file, use the 'wimverify' program. + + The way the "file count", "directory count", "total bytes", and "hard + link bytes" image statistics (stored in the WIM XML data) is calculated + has been slightly changed. + + In mounted WIM images, the disk usage provided for each file (st_blocks) + is now the compressed size rather than the uncompressed size. + + The performance of the NTFS-3g and Windows capture modes has been + slightly improved. + + On UNIX-like systems, symbolic links whose targets contain the backslash + character are now handled correctly (losslessly). + +Version 1.8.0: + Improved the LZX compressor. It is now 15-20% faster than before and + provides a slightly better compression ratio. + + Improved the LZMS compressor. It now provides a compression ratio + slightly better than WIMGAPI while still being faster and using slightly + less memory. + + The compression chunk size in solid resources, e.g. when capturing or + exporting a WIM file using the '--solid' option, now defaults to 64 MiB + (67108864 bytes) instead of 32 MiB (33554432 bytes). This provides a + better compression ratio and is the same value that WIMGAPI uses. The + memory usage is less than 50% higher than wimlib v1.7.4 and is slightly + lower than WIMGAPI's memory usage, but if it is too much, it is still + possible to choose a lower value, e.g. with the '--solid-chunk-size' + option to wimlib-imagex. + + The '--chunk-size' and '--solid-chunk-size' options to wimlib-imagex now + accept the 'K', 'M', and 'G' suffixes. + + Files are now sorted by name extension when creating a solid WIM file. + + Fixed various issues related to capture/apply of EFS-encrypted files on + Windows. + + The file list printed by 'wimdir' is now sorted by the platform-specific + case sensitivity setting, rather than always case sensitively. This + also affects the library function wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(). + + On Windows, some error and warning messages have been improved. + +Version 1.7.4: The Windows binary distribution no longer contains third party DLLs. These dependencies are instead compiled directly into the libwim DLL.