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@WerWolv WerWolv released this 23 Mar 10:06

Improvements

  • ImHex properly enters low power mode on Linux again now
  • Unifont characters are now being loaded at their native size to make them crisp like the Western characters
  • The splash screen is not being scaled weirdly anymore now
  • Added a hint when the advanced data information section didn't yield any result

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed linking to libyara. This should resolve issues with e.g the AUR version not starting anymore
  • Fixed issues with the auto updater on Windows
  • Fixed view providers not being saved to project files correctly
  • Fixed highlighting not updating correctly when changing Bookmark regions
  • Fixed crash upload setting not being disabled correctly when choosing "Deny" in the initial popup
  • Fixed custom base address issues with the data inspector and copy as array options
  • Fixed advanced data information not showing up correctly
  • Fixed selection being removed sometimes when right clicking it
  • Fixed infinite loop when exporting a selection to a file
  • Fixed control characters ending up in log files
  • Fixed a crash when opening an unopenable file

Pattern Language

  • Fixed various issues with the virtual file system
  • Fixed data decompression functions not extracting the entire data

Previous Changelog

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Additions

  • All main menu entries now have pretty icons
  • Added Myers' diffing algorithm to the diff view
    • This algorithm can display insertions and removals as well as modifications
    • Huge thanks to the maintainer of Malcat!
  • Added option to customize toolbar icons
  • Added a much improved Out of the Box experience when first starting up ImHex
  • Added many new hash algorithms
    • This includes basic sum checksums, Snefru, Haval, various SHA versions, Keccak, RIPEMD, many CRC presets and many more
  • Greatly improved the data information view
    • Sections can now be switched on and off
    • Magic information now includes more than one entry if there's multiple concatenated files
    • The Digram and Layered distribution graphs now perform a lot better
    • There's now built-in yara rules that are being run on files to detect compilers, programming languages and more for executables
  • Greatly improved the pattern editor
    • Thanks a lot to @paxcut
    • This adds support for find and replace, better highlighting and many other smaller things
  • Added Mini Map to the Hex Editor
    • This can be enabled by clicking on the map icon in the hex editor footer
    • There's also config options when right clicking that icon
  • Added Edit -> Jump to -> Pattern option to jump directly from hex editor highlights to patterns
    • Clicking on patterns in the pattern data view also jumps to their definition in the pattern editor now
  • Added a font picker to the settings
  • Added option to highlight parent pattern regions in the hex editor when hovering over them
  • Added support for searching for other string encodings and endianess. Thanks a lot to @PerikiyoXD
  • Added a pretty drag-n-drop overlay when dragging files onto ImHex
  • Added support for virtual file systems through the pattern language
  • Added option to keep ImHex always on top of other windows
  • Added option to use ImHex in fullscreen mode
  • Added support for switching to other providers through the command palette
  • Added a setting to always show all provider tabs, even if there's only one
  • Added option to export a selection to a file
  • Added a comments column to the pattern data view. It can be enabled by right clicking on the table header and selecting it there
  • Added option to turn off borderless window mode
  • Added option to export the results of the find view to a file
  • Added option to disable command palette button in header
  • Added a search bar to the file chooser popup
  • Added support for opening multiple files at once
  • Added support for macOS's Right click -> Open with option

Improvements

  • ImHex now uses Atomic File I/O instead of mapping files into memory
    • This solves various issues where certain files couldn't be opened, files on network drives not working well and more
  • macOS M1 build now only requires macOS 12.1 instead of 14.0 to run
  • Bookmark moving now uses ImGui's native drag n drop feature
  • Syncing pattern language source code between providers should work better now
  • Custom encodings that don't have multi-byte values now display immediately when selected
  • The macOS build now uses a custom titlebar
  • ImHex windows are now being unfocused properly if the main window loses focus
    • No more blinking cursors when ImHex is in the background!
  • Overwriting individual characters in the edit mode of the hex editor now works much better
  • Copy-Paste now works correctly in the Web version of ImHex. Thanks a lot to @exsilium
  • The find popup now remembers its content
  • The crash restore popup doesn't show anymore now if there's nothing to restore
  • Opening the same file multiple times is no longer possible now

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed signing issues with macOS builds
  • Fixed CTRL + S not removing red highlights of bytes
  • Fixed address bound checks in Edit -> Jump to option
  • Fixed menu bar collapsing into hamburger menu even if there's enough space
  • Fixed RGBA8 data processor node not setting output buffer correctly
  • Fixed provider information in information view always showing infos about the current provider instead of about the analyzed provider
  • Fixed issues when using certain window management tools on Windows
  • Fixed crashes when launching ImHex with file arguments
  • Fixed crash when trying to use too many hex editor rows
  • Fixed native theme detection of Linux. Thanks to @iTrooz
  • Fixed issues where workspaces are not correctly saved sometimes
  • Fixed issues where default magic database wasn't being bundled correctly
  • Fixed crashes when loading very old settings files
  • Fixed data inspector not updating correctly when the underlying data changed
  • Fixed a crash when specifying invalid hash parameters in the hashing view
  • Fixed additional folder paths not being loaded from the config file correctly
  • Fixed data inspector showing two negative signs sometimes
  • Fixed various issues with non-zero base addresses

Pattern Language

  • Huge refactor of the Preprocessor, Lexer and Parser
    • Massive thanks to @jumanji144
    • Compile errors are a lot more helpful now and include more context information
  • Added support for import statements
  • Added stacktrace to runtime errors
  • Patterns can now be placed inside of custom sections from within other types
  • Pattern formatters now properly respect a patterns visibility
    • This means hidden patterns don't end up in exported json, yaml or html files anymore
  • Fixed writing to big endian bitfield entries
  • Changing pattern setting now re-evaluates the code if auto evaluation is enabled

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