Changelog

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Additions

Replaced terrible existing project file system with a much more flexible one
- This is a breaking change. If you have existing project files, they will no longer be loadable in ImHex starting from this version
- To still use your old projects, you can use this Python Script here to extract the different parts of the old project file as stand-alone files that can then be imported again in newer versions of ImHex
The recents list now contain all providers, not just opened files
Added Intel Hex and Motorola SREC provider
Added hexadecimal size of file and selection to hex editor footer
Added select region command
Added close button to the welcome screen so various tools can be accessed without opening any data
Added Bookmark Import and Export option

Added better support for Windows 7
- You're still much better of by using Windows 10 or 11 instead since a bunch of things simply aren't possible on Windows 7
Removed dependency on macOS 11 only Framework so ImHex can now run on macOS Yosemite and higher
Switched .deb compression to gzip so it can be used on older Debian versions
Various find view improvements. Overlapping occurrences and occurrences at the very end of the file can now be found
Updated the LLVM demangler dependency
- All demanglers in ImHex now support the latest C++ features as well as D and Rust mangled names
ImHex now properly allows opening of all files on macOS when dragging a file onto its executable

Fixed crash when trying to edit a hex cell
Fixed various issues with the multi-byte visualizers
Fixed pattern language runtime not being reset properly after checking for MIME types
Fixed config files being placed in wrong locations on Linux
Fixed Windows native theme detection not always working correctly
Fixed a crash when the auto-load pattern setting is disabled

Restructured entire library and cleaned up a bunch of legacy stuff
Updated Error messages and error display
- All errors that are being thrown now show line/column information of the error as well as helpful error messages and hints on how to fix it (inspired by Rust errors)
Fixed for-loop parsing
Fixed display issues with static array entries
Fixed reading strings that were passed to functions
Fixed a namespace resolution crash
Fixed array out of bounds checks

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