X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=ee720b0c52ed486866b2ebdb0612f1fd78954d2e;hp=ab71b7c8d9f5ae644f8b568699286057acaf9641;hb=719a063c87e3abab99b0fb53ebc80223fbf33123;hpb=173bcff7f6950a89ee398d6058b4df8e67cf8675 diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab71b7c8..ee720b0c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,7 +1,42 @@ -Version 1.8.1-BETA: +Version 1.8.2-BETA: + This release primarily contains various minor bug fixes and + improvements, including: + + Reduced the stack space used by directory tree scans. + + 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. + + 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. + + Fixed handling of EINTR during data I/O. + + Optimized memory usage of some data structures. + + Improved LZMS decompression speed. + + The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings. + + 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". @@ -14,6 +49,9 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: 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. @@ -28,7 +66,11 @@ Version 1.8.1-BETA: 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 NTFS-3g capture mode has been slightly improved. + 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