# June 2026 - News archive
{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-06-23T17:40:33Z |title=PyMS Updates |author=Ojan |categories=StarCraft I, modding, tools |summary=PyMS updated for Python 3, and now has MIT license}}

For StarCraft I modders, one of the best set of tools has for a long time been {{highlight |text=PyMS}}, a graphical tool suite that allows several file types to be modded.

The author, {{highlight |text=poiuy_qwert}}, has been hard at work converting the source from Python 2 to Python 3, and writes:

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Hey all, I've been putting a lot of work into the python3 version of PyMS recently, but again I only have time to work on the tools not to actually use them, so I need to lean on others to use/test the programs and report any issues. If anyone is able to play with them please let me know!
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See [here](https://github.com/poiuyqwert/PyMS#issuesfeedback) for how to raise any issues.

Also, while the source of {{highlight |text=PyMS}} has been available for a long time, it has so far been without any explicit license, but {{highlight |text=poiuy_qwert}} just now released it under the MIT license.

Find the Python 3 branch of {{highlight |text=PyMS}} on [GitHub](https://github.com/poiuyqwert/PyMS/tree/python3).
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{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-06-14T13:03:48Z |title=IronTBL 2.0.0 |author=Ojan |resources=irontbl.png |categories=StarCraft I, WarCraft II, modding, tools, IronTBL |summary=Released IronTBL 2.0.0}}

StarCraft I and Warcraft II use TBL files to store game strings for things such as unit names, dialog strings, game tips, mission dialogs etc. Roughly a year ago, I wrote a little utility, [IronTbl](https://github.com/sjoblomj/IronTBL) to convert these TBL files to TXT files and back.

I recently decided to give {{highlight |text=IronTBL}} some love and fixed some minor bugs and issues, and spent some time hardening it. So with that, version 2.0.0 is now out.

{{img |file=irontbl.png |title=IronTBL}}

The previous `--mode` flag is now replaced by proper subcommands {{dash}} since this is a breaking change for the interface, I bumped the version to 2.0.0 even though the release doesn't offer any new features.

{{highlight |text=IronTBL}} 2.0.0 is available on [GitHub](https://github.com/sjoblomj/irontbl/releases/tag/v2.0.0).
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{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-06-07T17:48:50Z |title=mpqcli 0.9.10 turned into 0.10.0 |author=Ojan |categories=StarCraft I, WarCraft II, modding, tools |summary=mpqcli 0.9.10 removed and 0.10.0 released in its place}}

{{highlight |text=Thomas Laurenson}} seems to have figured that yesterday's 0.9.10 release of {{highlight |text=mpqcli}} merited a version bump, since it is a rather big release.

He also included a contribution by me to add the `compact` subcommand which defragments an MPQ archive, thus shrinking it in size if it contains any gaps from previous `add`s or `remove`s.

So, version 0.9.10 is not available anymore, but instead [version 0.10.0 of mpqcli](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli/releases/tag/v0.10.0) is out!
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{{begin-newsitem |time=2026-06-06T09:19:57Z |title=mpqcli 0.9.10 is out |author=Ojan |categories=StarCraft I, WarCraft II, modding, tools |summary=mpqcli 0.9.10 released}}

{{highlight |text=Thomas Laurenson}} just released [version 0.9.10 of mpqcli](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli/releases/tag/v0.10.0) two hours ago. As previously covered here, {{highlight |text=mpqcli}} is a tool for creating and modding MPQ files, used for loading custom data into games.

Both {{highlight |text=Thomas Laurenson}} and myself have made several contributions to the release, which is rather large:

**Added**

- Support passing multiple files to the `add` and `remove` subcommands
- Support reading file paths from stdin in the `add` and `remove` subcommands
- Support adding entire directories with the `add` subcommand
- Add an `--update` flag to the `add` subcommand. When given, files whose archived size matches the on-disk size won't be added to save time.

**Fixed**

- `extract` subcommand now reports an error when the output directory cannot be created
- Path traversal guard in `extract` uses fully resolved paths, closing a potential bypass
- Crash when reading strong signatures from malformed or truncated archives
- Docker glibc image updated to ubuntu:24.04
- Adding files is now ordered and operating system agnostic
- `add` subcommand now returns non-zero exit codes on failure
- Error messages now include StormLib error codes
- Duplicate error messages removed
- Makefile build targets corrected

**Changed**

- The `--path` flag on add now acts as an archive path prefix when a directory is given, and the full name when a file is given.

**Removed**

- `--filename-in-archive` and `--directory-in-archive`. They are now replaced by a unified `--path` flag

Find [version 0.9.10 of mpqcli here](https://github.com/TheGrayDot/mpqcli/releases/tag/v0.10.0).
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