X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d3d9de72c2a4f20ae7d0005e6ae0ddeb1dc16530;hp=3651a6bb49db1f3703db65c1f9d81213372faab3;hb=6456b91be4f0c69faa66b24b25dddfe5d463fece;hpb=9b9a502863318d6208da2818b1d522346e5eee9e diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3651a6bb..d3d9de72 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,130 @@ Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. -Version 1.1.1: +Version 1.3.3: + Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases + due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading + files twice whenever possible. + + The Windows build should now work on Windows XP. + + The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden, + compressed, sparse, and encrypted files. + + The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from + filesystems other than NTFS. + + Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic + links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex + capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'. + + The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly + improved. + + The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now + exported from the library. + +Version 1.3.2: + Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build. + + Added --strict-acls options. + + Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM. + +Version 1.3.1: + Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of + ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with + Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file + name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the + --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name, + or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will + configure the man pages to use the chosen name). + + Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing + and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and + requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the + --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply. + + Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now + dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows + XP (however, there may still be other problems). + +Version 1.3.0: + Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be + downloaded from the SourceForge page. + + --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'. + + Better support for different character encodings. + +Version 1.2.6: + Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now + possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag. + + Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes. + +Version 1.2.5: + NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points. + + NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one + (print warning instead of error). + + Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check). + +Version 1.2.4: + Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE + from the WAIK. + + Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13. + +Version 1.2.3: + Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write + mounted WIM image. + + Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes. + +Version 1.2.2: + LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations + and should now be even faster. (Although, they were already pretty + fast--- much faster than typical I/O speeds.) + + Fixed a bug introduced in v1.2.1 that would cause a directory tree + containing hard links to be captured incorrectly in some cases. + +Version 1.2.1: + By default, unmounting a read-write mounted WIM with 'imagex unmount + --commit' will now change the WIM in-place without needing to write the + entire WIM again. Use 'imagex unmount --commit --rebuild' to get the + old behavior. + + 'imagex unmount' no longer has a hard-coded limit of 10 minutes to wait + for a response from the daemon servicing the mounted WIM. Instead, + every second 'imagex unmount' will check if the daemon is still alive, + and keep waiting if so, otherwise terminate with an error. + + 'imagex unmount --commit' on a read-write mounted WIM will now print + progress information regarding the writing of new or modified streams + the WIM, just like when capturing or appending a WIM. + + A small change has been made to XPRESS compression and it should improve + the compression ratio slightly. + + A change was made that may improve performance slightly when applying a + WIM image to a NTFS volume. + + Microsoft has managed to introduce even more bugs into their software, + and now the WIMs for Windows 8 have incorrect (too low) reference counts + for some streams. This is unsafe because such streams can be removed + when they are in actuality still referenced in the WIM (perhaps by a + different image). wimlib will now work around this problem by fixing + the stream reference counts. This is only done when wimlib_delete_image() is + called ('imagex delete') or when wimlib_mount_image() is called with + WIMLIB_MOUNT_FLAG_READWRITE ('imagex mountrw'). Please note that this + requires reading the metadata for all images in the WIM, so this will + make these operations noticably slower on WIMs with multiple images. + + Various other bugfixes. + +Version 1.2.0: Appending images to a WIM is now be done by default without re-building the whole WIM. Use the --rebuild flag to get the old behavior (which was to re-build the entire WIM when a new image is appended). @@ -8,15 +132,29 @@ Version 1.1.1: A new command `imagex optimize' is now available to manually re-build a WIM that has wasted space due to repeated appends. - Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many - interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be - updated each release. - Progress information has been improved, and now arbitrary callback functions can be used to show the progress of a WIM operation. A possible bug with changing the bootable image of a WIM was fixed. + Some advisory locking is now done to prevent two processes from + modifying a WIM at the same time (but only in some cases). For example, + you cannot mount two images from a WIM read-write at the same time. + + Some functions have been reorganized: + * wimlib_mount() renamed to wimlib_mount_image(). + * wimlib_unmount() renamed to wimlib_unmount_image(). + * wimlib_overwrite_xml_and_header() removed as + wimlib_overwrite() suffices now. + * wimlib_apply_image_to_ntfs_volume() removed as + wimlib_extract_image() suffices now. + * wimlib_add_image_from_ntfs_volume() removed as + * wimlib_add_image() suffices now. + + Previously, the soname of libwim.so has been 0.0.0, despite many + interface changes. The soname is now updated to 1.0.0 and will now be + updated each release. + Version 1.1.0: Resources will now be compressed using multiple threads by default. (This applies to `imagex capture', `imagex append', and `imagex