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@@ -7,16 +7,35 @@ Version 1.6.0:
        performance of random access (such as that which occurs on a mounted
        image), but optimizations have been implemented for extraction.  These
        new WIM files also typically use a new compression format (LZMS), which
-       is similar to LZMA.  These new WIM files can be created with Dism using
-       "/compress recovery".  Note: this format is used by the Windows 8 web
-       downloader, but important segments of the raw '.esd' files are
-       encrypted, so wimlib will not be able to extract such files until they
-       are first decrypted.
+       is similar to LZMA and can offer a better compression ratio than LZX.
+       These new WIM files can be created with Dism using '/compress recovery',
+       or using `wimcapture' using '--pack-streams', although wimlib's LZMS
+       compressor is not yet very good, the latter is not recommended.  Note:
+       this new WIM format is used by the Windows 8 web downloader, but
+       important segments of the raw '.esd' files are encrypted, so wimlib will
+       not be able to extract such files until they are first decrypted.
+
+       wimlib now supports extracting files and directories from a WIM image
+       based on a "listfile" that itself contains the list of paths to extract.
+       For `wimextract', the syntax is to specify @LISTFILE instead of a PATH,
+       and for the library itself, the new APIs are wimlib_extract_pathlist()
+       and wimlib_extract_paths().  Path globs containing wildcard characters
+       are supported.
+
+       For searching WIM files, wimlib now has configurable case sensitivity.
+       The default on Windows is still case-insensitive and the default on
+       UNIX-like systems is still case-sensitive, but this can be overwridden
+       on either platform through flags to wimlib_global_init().  For
+       `wimlib-imagex', the environmental variable WIMLIB_IMAGEX_IGNORE_CASE
+       can be set to 1 or 0 for case-insensitive or case-sensitive behavior,
+       respectively.
 
        Support for compression chunk sizes greater than the default of 32768
        bytes has been added.  A larger chunk size typically results in a better
-       compression ratio.  However, this is currently disabled for LZX
-       compression due to lack of interoperability with the MS implementation.
+       compression ratio.  However, the MS implementation is seemingly not
+       compatible with all chunk sizes, especially for LZX compression, so the
+       defaults remain unchanged, with the exception of the new LZMS-compressed
+       WIMs, which use a larger chunk size by default.
 
        The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
        Now one set of functions support all supported compression formats.