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 -> Patternoption 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
importstatements- Massive thanks to @jumanji144
- 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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