April 2026 - News archive

mpqcli 0.9.9 is out
Posted by Ojan

Yesterday, Thomas Laurenson released version 0.9.9 of mpqcli, a release packed with bugfixes. As previously covered here, mpqcli is a tool for creating and modding MPQ files, used for loading custom data into games.

Fixed in version 0.9.9:

  • Potential path traversal attack in extract subcommand.
  • Empty MPQ archive name when directory supplied with trailing slash.
  • Bug where MPQ internal files were added with create subcommand.
  • Signature being added automatically when not requested.
  • Potential DWORD overflow in add subcommand.

Find version 0.9.9 of mpqcli here.

Chkdraft 2.11 released
Posted by Ojan

TheNitesWhoSay recently released version 2.1 of the StarCraft I map editor Chkdraft.

News in version 2.11:

  • Fix minimap unit position issue for maps with a dimension of 192.
  • Fix a crash on carbot due to certain images/anims not being present on the skin.
  • Support unicode for command line arguments (fixes "Open With" Chkdraft issues for certain maps).

News in version 2.10:

  • Support unicode for command line arguments (the "Open With" menu option in windows).

Version 2.11 is available here.

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