Changelog

Additions

• Added official support for MacOS
  • Made possible by @Thog's amazing contributions to the build system
• Added Plugin support
  • Allows creation of custom windows, custom entries to the Tools window and custom data providers
  • An example can be found under /plugins/example
• Rewrote the entire pattern language parser and evaluator
  • The language is now faster, more robust and has much less issues
  • A in-depth guide for all the features in the Pattern Language can now be found in the Wiki
• Many new features have been added to the pattern language
  • Added mathematical expressions with many operators, bit operators and value access
  • Added a much more featureful way of using values of other variables everywhere where a number is required
  • Added conditional statements for structs and unions (if, else and else if)
  • Added back zero sized array. These will simply be ignored
  • Added scope resolution operator for using enum values in expressions
  • Added built-in functions to find sequences and read values at addresses
  • Added boolean patterns
  • Added unsized character arrays for null-terminated strings
• Use file memory mapping instead of using standard file IO
  • This greatly increases performance on older computers and brings down background file IO to a minimum.
• Added Decimal, Hexadecimal and Octal number format options to data inspector
• Added nightlies for all platforms
  • These are available under the Actions tab
  • Thanks to @Thog for the macOS nightlies
• Added full DPI scaling
• Added custom font support
  • To use this, place your font named font.ttf next to the executable
• Added version info to about page
  • Version info, current commit hash and branch are shown
• Added selected region information to hex editor footer
• Various UI/UX improvements

Bug fixes

• Greatly improved byte highlighting performance
  • Previously, when scrolling down with a big pattern running, huge slowdowns started happening. The algorithm used for highlighting has been greatly improved to fix this.
• Fixed opening of files with a non-ASCII file path
• Fixed crashes with zero-sized arrays
• Fixed byte selection in read-only files
• Fixed ImHex refusing to be closed in some circumstances
• Fixed data inspector not updating in all cases
• Fixed ASCII characters drawing above the hex editor footer
• Fixed floating point displaying in pattern data view
• Fixed pattern data not updating when a new file is loaded