From: Eric Biggers Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:44:58 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update NEWS X-Git-Tag: v1.8.3~34 X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=commitdiff_plain;h=74e9f47c6cc9a750a2ec87edc024e4689b87fafe Update NEWS --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f38fe093..ffaa3db8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,16 +1,26 @@ Version 1.8.3-BETA: 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. Users of the (UNIX-only) NTFS-3g based WIM - extraction support should not use wimlib v1.8.1 or wimlib v1.8.2. + resulting filesystem. - Made some small improvements to the compression algorithms. + 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 and added two new API functions: + 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. + Several improvements to System Compression (compact mode) support: wof.sys (or wofadk.sys) is now automatically attached to the