Only the most important changes more recent than version 0.6 are noted here. Version 1.5.1: wimlib can now open WinPE WIMs from WAIK v2.1, which had a quirk that needed to be handled. A bug in the interpretation of negative IMAGE indices in the --update-of=[WIMFILE:]IMAGE option to `wimlib-imagex capture' and `wimlib-imagex append' has been fixed. A workaround has been added to successfully apply security descriptors with empty DACLs when the NTFS-3g apply mode is being used with NTFS-3g 2013.1.13 or earlier. `wimlib-imagex capture' can now accept the '--delta-from' option multiple times. Version 1.5.0: Added support for "pipable" WIMs. Pipable WIMs allow capturing images to standard output and applying images from standard input, but they are not compatible with Microsoft's software and are not created by default. See the documentation for --pipable flag of `wimlib-imagex capture' for more information. To better support incremental backups, added support for declaring an image as a modified form of another image. See the documentation for the '--update-of' option of `wimlib-imagex append' and `wimlib-imagex capture'. Added supported for "delta" WIMs. See the documentation for the '--delta-from' option of `wimlib-imagex capture'. The library support for managing split WIMs has been changed to support other arrangements, such as delta WIMs, and be easier to use. This change is visible in `wimlib-imagex', which also can now accept the '--ref' option multiple times, and also now supports "delta" WIMs as mentioned above. wimlib now preserves WIM integrity tables by default, even if WIMLIB_WRITE_FLAG_CHECK_INTEGRITY is not specified. This changes the behavior of `wimlib-imagex' whenever the WIM being operated on contains an integrity table and the '--check' option is not specified. `wimlib-imagex capture' now creates LZX-compressed WIMs by default (when --compress is not specified). This provides the best compression ratio by default, which is usually what is desired, at a cost of some speed. `wimlib-imagex' now supports being invoked as wimCOMMAND, where COMMAND is the command as in `wimlib-imagex COMMAND'; for example, it can be invoked as `wimapply' as an alternative to `wimlib-imagex apply'. The appropriate hard links are created in UNIX installations of `wimlib-imagex', while for the Windows distribution of `wimlib-imagex', batch files that emulate this behavior are generated. Security descriptors are now extracted correctly on Windows. Fixed archiving DOS names in NTFS-3g capture mode. The extraction code has been rewritten and it will now be easier to support new features on all supported backends (currently Win32, UNIX, and NTFS-3g). For example, hard-linked extraction mode (--hardlink) is now supported on all backends, not just UNIX. `mkwinpeimg' now supports grabbing files from the WAIK supplement rather than the WAIK itself. wimlib_global_init() now, by default, attempts to acquire additional privileges on Windows, so library clients need not do this. This update bumps the shared library version number up to 9, since it is not binary compatibible with previous releases. Version 1.4.2: Fixed bug in `wimlib-imagex export' that made it impossible to export an image from a WIM that is readonly at the filesystem level. Return error code rather than segfaulting when trying to list files from a non-first part of a split WIM. Joining a WIM will now preserve the RP_FIX and READONLY flags. Version 1.4.1: On Windows, paths given to wimlib-imagex are now treated case insensitively. Improved behavior regarding invalid filenames; in particular, on Windows, wimlib-imagex will, when extracting, now omit (with an option to override this default) filenames differing only in case, or filenames containing characters not valid on Windows. On Windows, wimlib now supports capturing and extracting long paths (longer than the so-called MAX_PATH). On Windows, `wimlib-imagex update' now acquires proper privileges when running as an Administrator. `wimlib-imagex update' will now complain if no image is specified when trying to update a multi-image WIM. `wimlib-imagex update' now supports specifying a single update command directly on the command line using the --command option. wimlib-imagex will now choose different units for progress messages, depending on the amount of data that needs to be processed. `wimlib-imagex append' will now generate a unique WIM image name if no name is specified and the defaulted name already exists in the WIM. wimlib now allows you to create unnamed WIM images, which can then only be referred to by index. wimlib now allows you to explicitly declare you want write access to a WIM by providing the WIMLIB_OPEN_FLAG_WRITE_ACCESS flag to wimlib_open_wim(). wimlib now respects the WIM_HDR_FLAG_READONLY flag when set in the WIM header. Progress callbacks have been added to wimlib's wimlib_update_image() function. Added wimlib_get_wim_info(), wimlib_set_wim_info(), wimlib_iterate_dir_tree(), and wimlib_iterate_lookup_table() functions to the library. NTFS-3g capture now only warns about two conditions previously treated as errors. Fixed a couple issues with using wimlib-imagex on UDF filesystems on Windows. wimlib now correctly detects and returns an error when reading a WIM image with a cyclic directory structure. (Fun fact: such a WIM will crash Microsoft's software.) Version 1.4.0: Added new "extract" and "update" subcommands to wimlib-imagex, along with associated APIs in the library. These commands are intended mainly for Windows use but can be used on UNIX as well. Many documentation improvements. Fixed a bug in the Windows build where relative symbolic links were not captured in reparse-point fixup mode. Fixed a bug in the Windows build where file handles were left open to the WIM file, causing `wimlib_imagex optimize' to fail in some cases. Fixed a bug in the Windows build of wimlib-imagex where globbing split-WIM parts could cause the program to crash. Fixed a bug where the creation time of WIM images would be shown instead of the last modification time. With the Windows build it is now possible to restore a WIM containing symbolic links as a non-Administrator; however you will receive warnings about not being able to extract the symbolic links. Version 1.3.3: Capturing a WIM image should now be significantly faster in most cases due to improved use of the operating system's cache and avoiding reading files twice whenever possible. The Windows build should now work on Windows XP. The Windows build now supports capturing and restoring hidden, compressed, sparse, and encrypted files. The Windows build now supports capturing and applying WIM images from filesystems other than NTFS (with some reduced functionality). The Windows build now extracts short names correctly. Added support for "reparse-point" fixups (i.e. fixing up of symbolic links). See docs for --rpfix and --norpfix flags of `wimlib-imagex capture' and `wimlib-imagex apply'. The performance of splitting and joining WIMs should be slightly improved. The LZX and XPRESS compression and decompression functions are now exported from the library. Version 1.3.2: Improvements and bugfixes for the Windows build. Added --strict-acls options. Fixed the way that wimlib determines the order of images in the WIM. Version 1.3.1: Since wimlib can now be used on Windows, wimlib's implementation of ImageX has been renamed to wimlib-imagex to avoid confusion with Microsoft's implementation of ImageX, which would have the same file name ("imagex.exe"). If you really don't like this you can pass the --with-imagex-progname option to `configure' to choose a different name, or even simply rename the binary yourself (but the former way will configure the man pages to use the chosen name). Various bugs fixed in the Windows build. Mainly to do with capturing and restoring alternate data streams correctly in weird cases, and requesting the correct privileges when opening files. Also added the --noacls options to wimlib-imagex capture, append, and apply. Windows build again: FindFirstStreamW() and FindNextStreamW() are now dynamically loaded, so this may make the library compatible with Windows XP (however, there may still be other problems). Version 1.3.0: Added experimental support for native Windows builds. Binaries can be downloaded from the SourceForge page. --source-list option added to `imagex capture' and `imagex append'. Better support for different character encodings. Version 1.2.6: Storing UNIX file owners, groups, and modes in WIM images is now possible using `imagex capture' with the --unix-data flag. Minor bug fixes and documentation fixes. Version 1.2.5: NTFS capture: Fixed capturing duplicate reparse points. NTFS capture: Capture first unnamed stream if there are more than one (print warning instead of error). Allow multiple test cases to execute concurrently (e.g. make -j2 check). Version 1.2.4: Added --arch switch to mkwinpeimg script to support getting AMD64 WinPE from the WAIK. Update to work with ntfs-3g version 2013.1.13. Version 1.2.3: Fixed truncating file to shorter but non-zero length on read-write mounted WIM image. Various code cleanups and minor documentation fixes. Version 1.2.2: LZX and XPRESS decompression have received some additional optimizations and should now be even faster. (Although, they were al...
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