A new patch is out, and it fixes one issue only. A bug recently discovered that could cause the game to crash, and also posed a serious security issue for Battle.net
A recently discovered bug has recently been patched. Unfortunately the bug, that promised much for the UMS community, is no more. There was much speculation if this bug could or not be used in harmful ways at SEN, until
superpenguin found one. We promptly reported it to Blizzard and one week later the bug was fixed with today's patch. We kept it quiet for obvious reasons until now. The UMS community did lose a useful tool, as this bug permitted them some nifty legitimate UMS functionality.
DeathKnight, who found the bug that was patched, had this to say on the matter:"I didn't expect for Blizzard to patch it so quickly, specially something that was so harmless in my mind initially; but then some of us realized that after midnight, the bug could turn into a nasty gremlin. Anyway that is only one of the various methods to allow Starcraft Triggers to contain almost the same functionality as Warcraft III triggers."
As usual the Battle.net team acts quickly when it is a security issue. We really should thank them for up keeping this old game of ours and still listen to us. It should also be an encouragement for more people to report specific hacks and abuse at [email protected]. They do listen and they do take action. Their time frame may not be to our liking but this last patch 1.13b is sound proof that they do not sleep when our game or battle.net is at risk.
Links
GG.net - Patch Text File
