v4.3.2

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

General Changes

• Add support for early L4D1 release era VPKs with no header or version information
• Fix failing to read files that are zero bytes long
• Stop moving other lumps in a BSP file when writing the paklump
  • Some of them might have absolute offsets, like the game lump, which could cause very rare and strange map corruptions
• MIPTEX files in WADs will now use the MIP extension instead of MIPTEX to match their unpacked extension

GUI Changes

• Add PSD, GIF, HDR, EXR, PIC, PPM, PGM files to the image preview
• Add support for more VTF formats present in Alien Swarm and/or Strata Source to the texture preview
• Add POP files to text preview
• Abbreviate "bytes" to "b" in folder preview
• Change keybinds for adding files/folders so they don't conflict with the text preview's default keybinds
• Allow creating VPKs with version 0 (pre-v1)

CLI Changes

• Add new and improved file tree with colors and indentation
  
• Allow creating VPKs with version 0 (pre-v1) and 54
• Fix typo

v4.3.1

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

General Changes

• Add support for editing GoldSrc WAD files (thanks @ozxybox!)
  • This will not be the last time you hear about WAD! Previews in the GUI will be coming for WAD files, but not right now

GUI Changes

• Renamed "Add File..." context menu entries to "Add Files...", they now support adding multiple files at once (thanks @ozxybox!)
• Bosnian translation is now 100% complete (thanks @Nbc66!)

CLI Changes

• Fix crash related to new compression strength parameter
• Add compression method parameter for BSP/ZIP pack file types

v4.3.0

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

4.3 Highlights

• Create Windows 7, 8, 8.1-compatible builds
• Add support for creating more pack file types besides VPK
• Text files can now be edited without leaving the application
• Allow previewing unpacked files, folders
• Add support for compressed BSP paklumps

General Changes

• Add support for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' "VPK" pack file format
• Add support for PK3, PK4 pack file formats
• Add support for VPK v54 pack files (a variant of VPK that supports compression)
• Remove support for GRP pack file format (from the Build Engine, used in Duke Nukem 3D)
• Add support for creating BMZ, FPX, PAK, PCK, ZIP files
• Rewrite how pack files are loaded to be faster and use less memory
• Improve Windows filepath cleaning logic when extracting files from a pack file to disk
• Fix ZIP files being left in the temp folder after editing a BSP paklump
• Fix BSP paklumps larger than the previously existing paklump being truncated when written
• Shrink the entire BSP file when the modified lump shrinks in size
• Add support for compressed BSP paklumps and ZIPs

GUI Changes

• Add PPL preview (prop lightmap)
• Add SVG preview
• Allow encrypting .txt, .nut files and decrypting .ctx, .nuc files directly from the right-click context menu
• Add support for opening any unpacked previewable file, which lets you preview the file without packing it
• Add support for opening any unpacked folder, which lets you preview the contents of the folder without packing it
• Add progress bar for renaming folders containing tons of files
• Dragging pack files on top of the application will open them when no pack file is loaded
• Fix modifying the original BSP when saving to a different folder
• Fix decompressing Deflate-compressed VTFs with multiple slices
• Fix previewing cubemap VTFs when the presence of a spheremap is not reported in the header
• Fix previewing VTFs with texture data stored in a floating-point format, such as HDR cubemaps
• Fix previewing VTFs with texture data stored as BC6H (a Strata Source extension)
• Fix model preview rendering weirdly on some Linux desktops
• Fix model preview being unable to find some textures
• Reduce VTF preview load time
• Change "Close Pack File" keybind to Ctrl + W over Ctrl + X
• 900x500 is now the preferred window resolution rather than the minimum
• Save and restore window position/size between launches
• Remove tiny margins around the previews that still had them
• Fix potential bugs when dragging files into other applications
• Fix Linux installations running in a KDE desktop potentially not preferring a discrete GPU

CLI Changes

• Add support for creating Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines' "VPK" pack files (plus the others listed in the General Changes category)

v4.2.3

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

Caution

This release has a known regression which causes BSP editing to corrupt the opened BSP on save. This bug is not present in versions before or after this release.

General Changes

• Fix loading/saving Left 4 Dead 2, Contagion BSPs
• Use an actual keyvalues parser when signing VPKs to parse private key VDF files more reliably
• Fix multiple VPKEdit CLI/GUI instances saving a BMZ/BSP/ZIP at the same time (would previously create conflicts)
• Fix PAK writer appending _test.pak to the save filename (oops)
• Fix PAK writer not writing directories of added files properly

GUI Changes

• Add option to disable creating Open In... menu at startup (prevents scanning user's Steam library)
• Populate Open In... menu in a separate thread to improve startup performance
• Fix regression from last release where compressed image formats would disable alpha checkbox in VTF preview despite having transparency
• Highlight KeyValues conditionals that start with a ! in KeyValues preview
• Show milliseconds in sound preview
• Fix Strata Source build crashes by removing all instances of QString::toStdString

CLI Changes

• Allow any pack file format where appropriate, not just VPKs
• Add -e, --extract parameter to extract files from pack file
• Add --add-file parameter to add a file at the given path in the pack file
• Add --remove-file parameter to remove a file at the given path in the pack file

For Developers

• The libvpkedit library has been migrated to the sourcepp repository, and it has been renamed to vpkpp. This repository is now solely for the VPKEdit executables, and any submodules of it should be changed to point to the sourcepp repository.
• Remove SAPP, SpeedyKeyV GUI dependencies in favor of sourcepp libraries

v4.2.2

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

GUI Changes

• Fix crashes when Steam installation is in a semi-invalid state
• Detect Steam installation when installed through the Snap Store
• Display CRC32 values in base-16 instead of base-10
• Add texture size indicator to VTF preview
• Switch to a different library for parsing VTFs with a more permissive license (no more vtflib!)

v4.2.1

Tip

Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

GUI Changes

• Add mods in sourcemods folder to "Open In" menu
• Games/mods with no icon will now have a placeholder icon in "Open In" menu
• Add "Lay Flat" checkbox in VTF preview to preview all faces and frames at once
• Split checksum verifier tool into checksum verifier and signature verifier tools
• Add Zombie Panic: Source text formats to KeyValues preview
• Stop referencing a VPK specifically in save failure dialog
• On Linux, each pack file format is now given its own MIME type (thanks @HurricanePootis!)
• Add fun April Fools prank

CLI Changes

• Add Verify mode to verify integrity of a VPK
  • --verify-checksums - Verifies VPK checksums. Takes one argument, either files, vpk, or all
  • --verify-signature - Verifies the VPK signature if present
• Add Preview mode to print VPK file tree
  • --file-tree - Prints the VPK file tree to console

Installer Changes

• Add missing file associations for .grp and .pak on Windows
• For Linux:
  • List libxcb-cursor0 as an explicit dependency
  • Use zstd compression over gzip compression

For Developers

• PackFile::verifyEntryChecksums and PackFile::verifyFileChecksum have been joined by 4 other functions. One is for signatures, and the other 3 return whether the file has that type of checksum or a signature

v4.2.0

Tip

Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

4.2 Highlights

• Drag and drop from inside application to filesystem
• Select multiple files and/or folders
• Model skin preview and material listing
• VPK signing

General Changes

• Add capability to sign VPK v2 files and verify their signature
• Fix incorrect calculation of VPK v2 "whole file checksum"

GUI Changes

• Add drag and drop from inside application to filesystem
• Allow selecting multiple files and/or folders to extract or delete them all at once
  • Also works with drag and drop
• Add model skin preview (based on the work on sourcepp by @Trico-Everfire, thanks!)
• Add information panel to display materials used by a model
  • If a material is found in the current pack file, it can be clicked to instantly preview it
• Add DMX binary file preview
  • This primarily means being able to browse particle definitions (.pcf)
• Add context menu to image preview and VTF preview
  • It has one action currently, "Copy Image", which copies the displayed image to the clipboard
• Some VTF preview options (alpha and tile checkboxes, zoom slider) will no longer reset switching to a different VTF
• Fix off-by-one error in VTF preview spinners
• Fix face spinner in VTF preview having no effect on the displayed face
• Fix potential memory leak in VTF decoder
• Add .qci, .qcx to the text preview's supported formats
• Add VPK tool category
  • "Generate Public/Private Key Files...": Generates a public/private keypair which can be used for signing VPKs
  • "Sign File...": Signs the VPK using the given <name>.privatekey.vdf KeyValues file
• VPK signature (if present) and file-wide MD5 checksums are now properly checked in the "Verify Checksums" tool
• Remember save directory between "Create VPK From Folder" prompts
• Add button to ignore updates for a given version
• Show application version in Discord rich presence on hover
• Update to Qt 6.6.3 from 6.6.2

CLI Changes

• Add -k / --sign parameter which accepts a path to the private key KeyValues file. The keys held within will be used to sign the output VPK
• Add two new "modes"
  • Generate: exists for the --gen-keypair command. <path> will be interpreted as the name of the files, prepended to .[public/private]key.vdf
  • Sign: when <path> is an existing VPK and -k / --sign is present, the existing VPK will be signed using the keys in the private key file
• Add progress bar for packing files
  • Can be disabled with the flag --no-progress

Installer Changes

• Stop installing minizip headers
• Stop installing discord-rpc headers and static library

For Developers

• Replaced most of the existing cryptographic algorithm code with the CryptoPP library

v4.1.3

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Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

General Changes

• Add Adler32 implementation creators to credits

GUI Changes

• Add PAK write support (WON Half-Life, Quake, etc.)
• Add PCK write support (Godot)
• Add automatic update notification (thanks @Trico-Everfire!)
  • This can be disabled in the options menu
• Add Discord rich presence support
  • Does not say what file you have open
  • This too can be disabled in the options menu
• Fix files failing to save on exit if the save operation took too long (race condition)
• Fix GUI elements not being disabled after a file fails to load
• Display "Embedded" in status bar if a Godot PCK is embedded in an executable
• Display "Encrypted" in status bar if a Godot PCK's directory is encrypted
• Display MD5 hashes as hex codes instead of binary in folder previews
• Stop translating language names in Language selector menu
  • For example Japanese is now "日本語" for all languages
  • This should make it easier to select the language the user knows
• Update translations

For Developers

• Create precompiled versions of the C wrapper library
• Create a C# wrapper library based on the C wrapper library
• Create virtual entry system, currently used to edit BSP lumps
• Strip the Wrapper prefix from files and types in the C wrapper library
• Change behavior of entry attributes getter to return a buffer allocated in the library
• Don't prefix libvpkedit and libvpkeditc with an extra lib on Linux
• Start applying proper compiler flags for debug/release on Linux

v4.1.2

Tip

Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

General Changes

• Fix VPK archives not copying to specified save path on Linux
• Fix attempting to load FPX files with the VPK parser

GUI Changes

• Sort list of supported extensions in "Open Pack File" dialog alphabetically

For Developers

• Fix C wrapper library's PackFileTypeWrapper enum so it matches PackFileType

v4.1.1

Tip

Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.

General Changes

• Stop compiling with liblzma to avoid IFUNC error on startup on Linux
• Fix crash when saving a VPK with external archive files to the same folder

GUI Changes

• Update translations
  • Complete languages: Bosnian, Chinese (Simplified), Dutch, Polish, Russian, Spanish
  • Languages in progress: Italian, Japanese, Swedish
• Add empty English translation file to stop defaulting to alternate installed languages
  • For example, if you have a Japanese language pack installed but its priority is lower than English, it will use English by default now
• Fix crash when navigating back or forward when a removed file is in the navigation history
• Add list of missing files to MDL error message when the MDL preview cannot find all the required model files

Installer Changes

• Properly deregister associated extensions on Windows during uninstall process

For Developers

• Compile with PIC and LTO/IPO enabled
• Fix C wrapper library compilation
• Stop prepending an extra "lib" to the library names on Linux