Release notes from BNSBoost

BNSBoost 1.7.4

2018-05-10T05:47:40Z

This release includes a couple of important changes:

The XC3 and multi-client functionality has been temporarily disabled after May 9th's update for your account security, until we come up with an new bypass
Fixed DAT file auto-patching corruption bug caused by older version of Ionic.Zlib
Fixed some potential stack smashing in launcher and client agents

v1.7

2018-05-10T05:43:35Z

Disable XC3 and multi-client until we come up with a new bypass

BNSBoost 1.7.3

2018-05-05T02:14:58Z

This release fixes a quirk of the GitHub API causing v1.7.2 to crash when checking for updates.

BNSBoost 1.7.2

2018-05-04T03:45:33Z

Bugfix release.

Fix autoupdater using UTC time instead of local time in checking for new releases
Make BNSBoost quit if new release is visited on update
Only create modded CookedPC folder once game directory path has been resolved

v1.7.1

2018-05-04T03:25:35Z

Create CookedPC folder once game path has been determined

BNSBoost 1.7.0

2018-05-04T02:13:40Z

This release features a large number of features and improvements on the way to 2.0.0. There's also a new wiki on BNSBoost-related topics, check it out!

Add simpler modding support (#13)
Add splash-changing support, including non-BMP splashes (#12)
Check for updates from GitHub (#11, updating itself is left up to the user, for security reasons)
Add launcher hijack to warn when launching NC Launcher without BNSBoost (thanks, @zeffy)
Add basic localization support (#4)
Disable XC3 bypass console in release builds
Add .dat subdirectories recursively in editor

BNSBoost 1.6.0-beta.1

2018-04-21T23:24:58Z

This release features a significant rewrite of core functionality, as well as the addition of multi-client support.

Adds multi-client support (#8)
Switch to MS Detours instead of IAT hooking, since Themida makes IAT hooking useless in client
Extract injection functionality into inject32 and inject64 helper executables targeting x86/x64, respectively
Make XIGNCODE3 disabling not require modification of game files
Add autopatch for showing low-rated names in arena
Fix autopatcher not backing up game files itself, causing endless file repairs
Scale ping estimation by a factor of 0.5

BNSBoost 1.5.1

2018-04-20T00:06:04Z

This release builds VirtualPuppet/XignCode3-bypass alongside BNSBoost, so there are no unknown binaries in the repository.

It also builds an x64 version of the X3 bypass, so X3 may be bypassed when using a 64-bit client.

BNSBoost 1.5.0

2018-04-19T07:03:14Z

This release includes:

Added autopatching system
- Detects when game client has updated, and reapplies patches before launching
Significantly rewrote the bnsdat code, resulting in huge speedups
- Recompiling xml64.dat down from ~3 minutes to ~20 seconds
Added client bitness selector
Added EU region support
Added estimation of game delay based off TCP connect time
Added progress bar to DAT editor instead of hanging UI thread

Known issues:

The XIGNCODE3 bypass currently only works for the 32-bit client
"Show opposing team in arena" patch is unimplemented

BNSBoost 1.4.1

2018-04-16T02:04:28Z

This release adds an XIGNCODE3 disabling option. It also fixes a crash when .dat files are in use when attempting to be edited.