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VPKEdit 5.0 is coming soon! It brings with it a bunch of bug fixes and features. I want to delay the proper release to add more features and properly test everything that's changed, so in the meantime here's a beta release.
Tip
Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.
Note
Changes made in this beta have an exclamation mark emoji (❗) and old changes may be struck out and replaced where applicable. This changelog is a collection of every beta release up to this point and will continue to be appended to until the final release.
General Changes
- Add macOS as a supported platform (thanks @Charles-Bao and @EricZhang456!)
- ❗Change macOS code signing process to reduce install friction
- Update logo to New VPKEdit logo from Old VPKEdit logo
- Add 16x16 variant for better scaling (thanks to The Pixel for the design!)
- ❗Add create/read/write support for FGP pack file format
- Add read/write support for SiN (SIN) pack file format
- Add read support for Xbox Zip (XZP) pack file format
- ❗Add read support for Xbox Zip v2 (XZP2) pack file format
- ❗Fix baking PAK/SIN formats by ensuring directory is written to the end of the file and filenames are always null-terminated
- ❗Accelerate BSP/XZP2/ZIP read/write times by 3x in uncompressed scenarios
- Properly set RPATH on Linux for standalone builds
- Fix GCF checksum verification algorithm
- Add support for parsing contents of encrypted GCFs
GUI Changes
- ❗Greatly accelerate pack file load time
- ❗In my Windows 10 VM the speedup was 20x, but I have heard reports of lower end systems which took minutes to open certain pack files now opening them near instantly
- Create a plugin system to be able to load new previews not packaged with the program at runtime
- ❗Add plugin information dialog to show metadata of active plugins
- Migrate DMX and MDL previews to new plugin system
- ❗Migrate ICE encyption context menu entries to VCrypt plugin
- Qt updates
- Upgrade to Qt 6.8.3 on Windows
- Use system Qt for Linux installers (third-party vendors are already doing this)
- Fixes system themes being inaccessible
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- Improve translations
- Add Vietnamese translation
- ❗Add Slovenian translation
- Update Japanese translation
- Update Spanish translation
- Fix pack file name possibly being renamed to a translated text in the status bar
- Delay deletion of temporary files to when the program closes
- Reorganize About dialog
- ❗Fix being unable to click any links in the About dialog
- ❗Add "Mark Modified" button to mark the current pack file as savable without editing the contents
- Fix possibility of Steam library icons not being populated
- Used to use a heuristic, now it parses assetcache.vdf directly
- ❗Fix Steam library icons not being populated if the user had used multiple languages for their Steam install
- ❗Search bar now uses a regex filter instead of a keyword search
- ❗Apply contents of search bar automatically when the contents change instead of requiring an Enter keypress
- ❗Add basic sort capability to folder preview to allow sorting the table by a given column
- Fix top of text preview blocking mouse input
- Add .vint_doc and .vint_proj to text preview
- Add .qoi to image preview
- Stop crashing when given a DMX file that fails to parse
- Stop listing elements at the root of a DMX file if it has been referenced in a different element previously
- ❗DMX preview now shows attributes inline with the element contents similar to KV2's structure
- ❗DMX preview can now handle legacy binary versions, newer Source 2 versions
- ❗DMX preview can now handle srctools' Unicode formats (thanks @TeamSpen210!)
- ❗Show a preview for ICE and VFONT-encrypted files hinting at decryption support
- ❗Add .ekv as a registered extension for VCrypt ICE encryption/decryption support
- ❗Add support for VFONT encryption/decryption to VCrypt plugin
- Explicitly set GL

Tip
Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.
General Changes
- Add read-only support for .hog and .vpp pack files
- Fix FPX/VPK internal archive count not being properly updated, which resulted in only saving the dir file when saving to a new location
GUI Changes
- Add two new translation languages
- Croatian (thanks N0one!)
- German (thanks Nilten!)
- Update Spanish translations (thanks Samuel!)
- Register .tbl extension with the text preview
- Add support for previewing PS3 VTFs from Portal 2 and CS:GO
- On Windows, stop shipping qtga and qjpeg image format plugins (handled by sourcepp now)
- On Windows, improve DPI manifest to fallback to older styles if PerMonitorV2 isn't supported
CLI Changes
- Always return EXIT_FAILURE when an error is encountered
- Stop printing the entire help text after every error
- Reorder parsing of parameters in edit mode so removal of files/directories happens first
- Respect output parameter in edit mode if present
Installer Changes
- Register associations with .hog and .vpp files
- On Windows, optionally register association for .vmt files
- On Windows, stop deleting every registered file association when running the uninstaller
- On Linux, update the outdated MIME type list in the desktop entry
For Developers
- Improve Visual Studio integration

Tip
Read the install guide for assistance installing VPKEdit.
4.4 Highlights
- BSP paklump editing is now far more reliable
- Add support for several pack file types
- Many new translations for existing and new languages
General Changes
- BSP editing should finally be a completely bug-free experience (thanks @Tholp1!)
- Most of the library this tool uses to work with BSP files was restructured and rewritten
- BSPs produced by VPKEdit will be smaller, and inner offsets in the game lump will always be rewritten correctly
- Add support for reading 007 (007 - Nightfire assets) file format (thanks for the detailed issue @SmileyAG!)
- Add support for reading OL (Worldcraft Object Library) file format (thanks for the specification @erysdren!)
- Add support for reading ORE (Narbacular Drop assets) file format (thanks for the specification @erysdren!)
- Add support for reading and writing HROT's version of Quake's PAK file format
- Fix GCF contents not being treated with case sensitivity (again)
- Fix an error on load when trying to open a VPK directory by opening one of its numbered external archives instead
- Update PCK format to support upstream Godot changes
- Refactored a backend library to prepare for upcoming plugin support
GUI Changes
- Add translations for the following languages:
- Korean (thanks hamn!)
- Portuguese (Brazil) (thanks vivizinho64minecraft!)
- Substantially update translations for the following languages:
- Polish (thanks Patrxgt!)
- Russian (thanks @Michael-Soyka!)
- Swedish (thanks @BreakinBenny!)
- Ship Qt base translations to translate certain text like dialog buttons that were previously not being translated
- Fix several missing translations for menu entries (and for some languages, translate them)
- Fix status bar text sometimes replacing elements of the filename with translated versions
- Add Bloody Good Time's ICE key to the encryption/decryption key list (thanks @BreakinBenny!)
- Add APNG files to image preview
- Add EDT and MAP files to text preview
- Fix image preview not being able to preview 16-bit images with less than 4 channels
- Fix image preview not being able to preview HDR images with 2 channels
- Fix VTF preview showing an "Unknown" format for certain infrequently used texture formats

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

[!TIP]
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!)