X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=dd38f2069bab6dccfb39de4974692e1d574abf58;hp=ee720b0c52ed486866b2ebdb0612f1fd78954d2e;hb=5d84c9526ece9e389a9dcdec675dfac017257e68;hpb=1408e6b48f799f6388af508a141fde9ee43192ef diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ee720b0c..dd38f206 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,31 +1,95 @@ -Version 1.8.2-BETA: +Version 1.9.0-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 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. + + 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. + + 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: - Reduced the stack space used by directory tree scans. + 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. - Improved validation of filenames. - - Fixed the test scripts to work in a Turkish locale. + On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which + is needed to create externally backed files using the + "wofadk.sys" driver. - Fixed handling of EINTR during data I/O. - - Optimized memory usage of some data structures. + Improved validation of filenames. Improved LZMS decompression speed. The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings. - In addition, *experimental* support has been added for compressing + 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.