The Quiltflower decompiler is an integral part of Quilt's toolchain, and has been quietly developed by jaskarth and the rest of the Decompilers team since our earliest beginnings. Yesterday, the team decided to separate from Quilt and continue development under the Vineflower organisation.
Update 17/09/2023: The beacon has been permanently removed in Loader 0.20.0 following the decision that the usefulness of the MAU statistic is outweighed by community concerns and confusion regarding telemetry.
If you've been keeping tabs on our RFC, or Request For Comment, repository, you may have noticed that we've just merged a proposal for Quilt Loader to keep tabs on how many people are using it each month. All considered, it's unfortunate that it was RFC 81, not RFC 1984.
Hello quilters!
An important announcement from the Quilt Mappings team today (you can tell, because I’ve pulled out proper punctuation for the first time in my Quilt career). I’ll cut straight to the point and say it: Quilt Mappings is in need of contributions. The team and I have been working hard to keep up with Minecraft lately, but with a backlog of missing mappings since before I joined and Mojang always working to improve the game, we can’t hold up our completion by ourselves.
Quilted Fabric API is our fork of Fabric API which runs alongside QSL to ensure mods using the Fabric API can work on Quilt. Since almost all Fabric mods make use of the Fabric API in some way or another, it's a critical part of Quilt's compatibility with Fabric mods, but despite this, it is largely updated and maintained by a single person:
On Tuesday, 31st January, a member of the Quilt team discovered path traversal vulnerabilities in five different mrpack implementations, affecting MultiMC, PolyMC, Prism Launcher, ATLauncher and mrpack-install.
This article serves as a write-up for the vulnerabilities, and the affected versions.