Update NEWS and README.WINDOWS

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 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 
 Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here.
 

+Version 1.6.0:
+       Support for extracting and updating the new version 3584 WIMs has been
+       added.  These WIMs typically pack many streams ("files") together into a
+       single compressed resource, thereby saving space.  This degrades the
+       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.
+
+       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.
+
+       The compression/decompression API exported by wimlib has been changed.
+       Now one set of functions support all supported compression formats.
+
+       `wimcapture' and `wimappend' will now display the progress of scanning
+       the directory tree to capture, in addition to the progress of writing
+       data to the WIM.  The '--verbose' option no longer does anything.  The
+       library API change for this is the addition of several members to
+       `struct wimlib_progress_info_scan' available to progress callbacks.
+
+       `mkwinpeimg' now correctly handles the '--start-script' option when the
+       start script is not in the working directory.
+
+       Sequential extraction, previously required by using
+       WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_SEQUENTIAL, is now the default.
+       WIMLIB_EXTRACT_FLAG_FILE_ORDER can be used to get the old behavior
+       (extract in file order).
+

 Version 1.5.3:
        The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
        enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run
 Version 1.5.3:
        The new LZX compressor added in v1.5.2 has been improved and is now
        enabled by default, except when `wimcapture' or `wimappend' is run

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@@ -37,9 +37,6 @@ ImageX are the following:
 
   * Mounting images from a WIM file is not supported on Windows.
 
 
   * Mounting images from a WIM file is not supported on Windows.
 

-  * The LZX ("maximum") compression ratio is several percent worse than
-    Microsoft's implementation.
-

 However, wimlib-imagex provides a number of advantages compared to Microsoft's
 ImageX, including but not limited to the following:
 
 However, wimlib-imagex provides a number of advantages compared to Microsoft's
 ImageX, including but not limited to the following: