From 29ca240cac33f1f12fb0e2674e1c6447bc2c4aaf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 22:08:38 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Abbreviate the NEWS a bit --- NEWS | 49 +++++++++---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 752f9def..982089e4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ Version 1.7.1-BETA: + Made more improvements to the XPRESS, LZX, and LZMS compressors. + + The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in + its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'. + + You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the + '--compress' option; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'. Made a minor change to the LZMS compressor and decompressor to fix an incompatibility with the Microsoft implementation. In the unlikely @@ -7,53 +14,15 @@ Version 1.7.1-BETA: with wimlib v1.7.1, decompress it with v1.7.0 then compress it with v1.7.1. - The performance of LZX compression in its default settings has been - improved by a further 5-10%. - - The default compression mode for wimcapture is now LZX compression in - its default mode, which is the same as '--compress=maximum'. - - You can now specify an optional integer compression level to the - '--compress' or '--solid-compress' options; e.g. '--compress=lzx:75'. - Currently, the default level in all cases is 50. This capability - deprecates the '--compress-slow' (or '--recompress-slow') option to - several wimlib-imagex commands. - - The '--pack-streams', '--pack-compress', and '--pack-chunk-size' options - to several wimlib-imagex commands have been deprecated in favor of more - "standard" names: '--solid', '--solid-compress', and - '--solid-chunk-size', respectively. - - Added 'verify' subcommand to 'wimlib-imagex'. - - The XPRESS compressor no longer supports chunks larger than 65536 bytes. - There is little point in having larger chunks, since the LZ77 sliding - window for XPRESS cannot be larger than 65536 bytes. This change does - not affect the default XPRESS chunk size, which is 32768. - - The new (as of v1.7.0) extraction code will no longer run out of file - handles when extracting many (1000+) identical files. + Added 'verify' subcommand to wimlib-imagex. - Library changes: + Notable library changes: Custom compressor parameters have been removed from the library in favor of the simpler level-based API. Decompressor parameters have been removed entirely. - The maximum XPRESS chunk size has been reduced, as mentioned - above. - - Library users can now initialize and de-initialize the library - multiple times in one run of an application program. - - Library users will now receive WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_WRITE_STREAMS - and WIMLIB_PROGRESS_MSG_EXTRACT_STREAMS messages more frequently - when writing or extracting large WIM files. - - Added experimental new write flag: - WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_SEND_DONE_WITH_FILE_MESSAGES. - Library users can now specify a custom file for warning and error messages to be sent to, rather than the default of standard error. -- 2.43.0