# March 2026 - News archive
{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-03-23T03:06:28Z |title=mpqcli 0.9.8 is out |author=Ojan |categories=StarCraft I, WarCraft II, modding, tools |summary=mpqcli 0.9.8 released, with overwrite and convenience support}}

Yesterday, {{highlight |text=Thomas Laurenson}} released [version 0.9.8 of mpqcli](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli/releases/tag/v0.9.8), mostly containing changes contributed by me. When adding files, there is now support for overwriting existing files, as well as for specifying the path within the archve. Archives can also be created from a single file rather than requiring the user to giv a directory. Finally, some memory leaks have been fixed and all file handles are now properly closed.


The full changelist is as follows:

Added:

- The create subcommand now supports a single file
- The add and create subcommands have additional arguments for specifiying the file location in the MPQ archive (`filename-in-archive`, `directory-in-archive` and `path`)
- The add subcommand can now overwrite existing files if requested (`overwrite`)

Fixed:

- Several memory leaks

Find [version 0.9.8 of mpqcli here](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli/releases/tag/v0.9.8).
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{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-03-20T10:50:45Z |title=One year anniversary of Jorvik Systems |author=Ojan |categories=site |resources=jorsys.png |summary=Jorvik Systems is one years old! Looking back at the year.}}

Time flies, and today not only marks the Spring Equinox, but also the one year anniversary of {{highlight |text=Jorvik Systems}}.

{{img |file=jorsys.png |title=Jorvik Systems}}

The website itself has progressed slower than I anticipated, and I had wanted to have more content up on the site by now. However, I have focused the time available on creating tools and software instead. Below is a list of the Blizzard-related software projects I have created and contributed to during this time.

| Project                                                      | Description |
| :----------------------------------------------------------- | :---------- |
| [IronTBL](https://github.com/sjoblomj/irontbl)               | A tool to convert StarCraft and WarCraft II TBL files to text files. |
| [IronGRP](https://github.com/sjoblomj/irongrp)               | A tool to convert StarCraft, WarCraft I and WarCraft II GRP files to PNG using a PAL color palette. |
| [IronImage](https://github.com/sjoblomj/ironimage)           | Converts IMG files (images) and CUR files (cursors) from WarCraft I and II to PNGs and vice versa. |
| [mpqcli](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli)               | A command line tool to create, add, remove, list, extract, read, and verify MPQ archives using the StormLib library. |
| [MPQDraft](https://github.com/sjoblomj/MPQDraft)             | MPQDraft allows in-memory patching of Blizzard game data files, added features through plugins, and creation of self-executing mods. |
| [MpqFileLister](https://github.com/sjoblomj/MpqFileLister)   | MPQDraft plugin to list all files the games access. |
| [namebreak-cuda](https://github.com/sjoblomj/namebreak-cuda) | Application to brute-force the names of files inside MPQ archives. |

Overall, I'm very happy with that amount of output. As for the site, a major event was in December, when I wrote a piece about the thirty year anniversary of Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness, a post which stayed on the front page of Hacker News for 24 hours and generated quite some site views.

Things have been slow with the site lately, as I've been on vacation with extended travel for a while now. That is about to wrap up in not too long, so I anticipate that I will have some more free time to spend on the site and tools, hopefully.
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