X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=d69f6286e3ae58954d3018269dd61901f46d8911;hp=bd50c5895451596ab7f1edf9bc9269d3eafd1afe;hb=b838675b420f13b3771b91b4ab2d5eddc3e6492f;hpb=91ba045392c18b7e12add95158cd2ab67c1505ae diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index bd50c589..d69f6286 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,36 @@ 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, 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. + + 'add' commands passed to wimupdate will now replace existing + nondirectory files by default. Use the --no-replace option to get the + old behavior. + + Fixed reading out-of-order entries in lookup table of version 3584 WIM / + ESD files. + + The shared library version has been bumped up; however, there are only a + few incompatibilities: + + - WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_XPRESS is now 1 and + WIMLIB_COMPRESSION_TYPE_LZX is now 2 (so it's the same as + WIMGAPI). + + - '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(), + and wimlib_update_image(). However no code changes are + necessary if a NULL configuration was being used. + + - Removed deprecated functions: some (de)compression functions, + wimlib_extract_files(), and wimlib_print_metadata(). + +Version 1.6.2: Case-insensitive comparisons of strings (e.g. filenames) containing UTF-16 codepoints above 32767 are now done correctly. @@ -8,14 +38,14 @@ 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