0.0.15-alpha2

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Updated to .NET 10.
• Penalize Akamai CDN in ping tests so it isn't preferred, it has missing files as of November 2025 causing fallbacks.
• Wrap local archive file retrieval in try/catch to be less whiney about things being in use by e.g. WoW.

TACTTool

• Updated to .NET 10.
• Updated System.CommandLine package.
• (0.0.15-alpha2) Disabled AOT due to compile error.

Full Changelog: 0.0.14-alpha...0.0.15-alpha2

0.0.14-alpha

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Add ability to set additional CDNs.
• Add ability to set local CDN directory to use.
• Switch to Ribbit V2 HTTPS for patch service information.
• Improve archive downloading stability.
• Improved compatibility with older builds.
• Fixes crash when reading encrypted BLTE chunks with IV size of 8 (Midnight Alpha).

TACTTool

• Added -cdns switch to specify additional CDNs.
• Added -cd/-cdndir switch to specify local CDN directory.

Full Changelog: 0.0.13-alpha...0.0.14-alpha

0.0.13-alpha

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Remove archive.wow.tools as CDN.

Full Changelog: 0.0.12-alpha...0.0.13-alpha

0.0.12-alpha notes

Adding these again as this released 1 day before 0.0.13-alpha.

Library

• Added CDNDir setting or optional local CDN directory, e.g. if you are mirroring tpr/wow to C:/CDN/tpr/wow, set this to C:/CDN.
• Added TryCDN setting (default: true) to optionally skip trying to retrieve files from CDN.
• Added optional verification argument to BLTE decoding.
• Fixed issue where TACTSharp loaded old indexes when using a local installation that lead to many files needing to be downloaded.
• Fixed encoding result Length to properly represent the amount of found keys.
• If certain things are not found (e.g. indexes) the library now tries its best to carry carrying on.
• Exposed index type for detecting what kind of index an index is.

TACTTool

• Added --cdndir (short: -cdn) argument to set local CDN directory if available.

Full Changelog: 0.0.11-alpha...0.0.12-alpha

0.0.12-alpha

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Added CDNDir setting or optional local CDN directory, e.g. if you are mirroring tpr/wow to C:/CDN/tpr/wow, set this to C:/CDN.
• Added TryCDN setting (default: true) to optionally skip trying to retrieve files from CDN.
• Added optional verification argument to BLTE decoding.
• Fixed issue where TACTSharp loaded old indexes when using a local installation that lead to many files needing to be downloaded.
• Fixed encoding result Length to properly represent the amount of found keys.
• If certain things are not found (e.g. indexes) the library now tries its best to carry carrying on.
• Exposed index type for detecting what kind of index an index is.

TACTTool

• Added --cdndir (short: -cdn) argument to set local CDN directory if available.

Full Changelog: 0.0.11-alpha...0.0.12-alpha

0.0.11-alpha

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Switch to normal (non-full) root loading by default.
• Stopped hardcoding tpr/wow directory.
• Load local indices slightly later in build loading and ensure they're only loaded once.
• Fix inconsistencies in binary search extensions by @Warpten in #7
• Attempt to deal with bad CDN downloads stopping during download.

Full Changelog: 0.0.10-alpha...0.0.11-alpha

0.0.10-alpha

Still considered unstable, especially API wise. More large changes are coming. Use at your own risk!

Library

• Added optional listfile support (default on, can be disabled by setting Settings.ListfileFallback to false).
• Added setting for CDN cache directory (default 'cache').
• Improved encoding loading. (by @Warpten)
• Removed a lot of unneeded async and static-ness.
• Removed Encoding.TryGetEKeys and add implicit bool conversion operator to EncodingResult.
• Updated index GetAllEntries() to also support file-indexes.
• Updated root parsing to store lookup => fdid references instead of lookup => RootEntry.
• Updated install parsing to normalize filename slashes to \ (#by @bloerwald) (fixes #5).

Tool

• Added lookup based file extraction for filenames/lists (e.g. interface files on Retail, all files on Classic).
• Added listfile based file extraction for filenames/lists if file is not found through other methods.

0.0.9-alpha

• Make latest NuGet package a pre-release one

0.0.8-alpha

• First NuGet prerelease

0.0.7

• Added locale setting.
• Fix issue where CDNs would get pinged a lot in multiple file extracts.
• Improved error messages for parsing configs from local WoW installations.