From: Eric Biggers Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 16:19:17 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Update NEWS X-Git-Tag: v1.6.0~77 X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=commitdiff_plain;h=13fc8902399d2f15819b6fc7a01c3d20494e943a;ds=sidebyside Update NEWS --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 46a2905b..000ac46e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -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.