From: Eric Biggers Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 17:06:13 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Update NEWS X-Git-Tag: v1.8.2~1 X-Git-Url: https://wimlib.net/git/?p=wimlib;a=commitdiff_plain;h=c709c97fc72d46560550dd614959b3e62dbe1604 Update NEWS --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ee720b0c..5c22c3a9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -2,30 +2,33 @@ 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. + Improved handling of deep directory structures. 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. + Added a workaround for a case where libntfs-3g may report + duplicate streams in an NTFS file. + 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. + On Windows, wimlib now acquires SeManageVolumePrivilege, which + is needed to create externally backed files using the + "wofadk.sys" driver. - Fixed handling of EINTR during data I/O. - - Optimized memory usage of some data structures. + Improved validation of filenames. Improved LZMS decompression speed. The configure script now honors alternate pkg-config settings. - In addition, *experimental* support has been added for compressing + Links have been updated to point to the new website. + + 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.