PBO Tools v1.9

Changelog

What's New

Arma 3 support
— Added alongside DayZ, including Arma 3 Tools detection and Arma-specific config binarization, model binarization, and PBO signing paths. Users are prompted to choose DayZ or Arma 3 before packing. CLI requires the game to be configured beforehand.
Batch packing
— Dropping or passing a folder containing multiple mod folders now builds each child mod individually.
Shared obfuscation for batches
— Dependent mods can be obfuscated together once, then packed separately.
CLI improvements
— Added
--help
, explicit exit codes, unknown-argument errors, one-mod-folder validation, and non-interactive behavior.
**
--sign-pbo
/
-s
** — New CLI flag for non-interactive PBO signing when a valid private key is configured.
Custom obfuscation prefixes
— Class, method, and variable prefixes are now configurable in settings.json via
classPrefix
,
methodPrefix
, and
variablePrefix
instead of fixed defaults.

Improvements

Code obfuscation
— Improved string literal obfuscation and added safety checks to skip DayZ vector literals, empty strings, format strings, and URL/path-like strings. Obfuscation failures now produce a clear fatal error.
Config schema
— Reworked to group game configuration, notifications, exclusions, PBO settings, PBO obfuscation, and code obfuscation more clearly.
Type obfuscation
— Replaced the
TypeDefines
boolean with a
typedef
array so users can explicitly define which data types are included.
Path handling
— Improved for drag-and-drop and CLI inputs, including case-insensitive
.pbo
/
.p3d
checks and normalized output paths.
PBO signing
— GUI mode still prompts; CLI mode signs only when
--sign-pbo
is provided.
Console output
— Cleaner prefixes, a warning log level, warning counters, fewer noisy status messages, and more useful final build results.
API resilience
— Added retry handling for timeouts and transient network failures. Non-critical endpoint failures no longer force-exit the app.

Bug Fixes

CLI
— Fixed several flows that incorrectly required interactive prompts.
CLI exit codes
— Invalid arguments, help output, and missing folders now produce the correct exit code.
PBO build detection
— Now correctly returns a failure when an expected output file is not created.
Batch cleanup
— Temporary source copies are now removed only after all child mods finish.
PBO exclusions
— Fixed matching that could miss entries due to casing, path separators, or relative-path handling.
Comment removal
— Fixed edge cases around quotes and next-character checks.
Error tracking
— Access-denied files, invalid models, binarization failures, and warnings are now counted in the final result.
Uncompressed PBO warnings
— CLI runs no longer stall waiting for an interactive prompt.
Missing Bohemia Tools
— Unavailable DayZ/Arma tools are now reported as warnings where appropriate instead of breaking unrelated packing work.

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General Notes:

This release is not signed with a code signing certificate. We publish a SHA-256 hash with every release and maintain strict internal processes to verify build integrity.
We're aware of some performance impacts introduced in this release and are actively working to address them.

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