Changelog

Additions

• Pattern language additions
  • Added new built-in functions
    • addressof : Gets the address of a variable
    • nextAfter : Gets the address directly after a variable
    • alignTo : Aligns a value to the provided boundaries
  • Added modulus operator %
  • Added dollar operator $. It acts as a value placeholder and returns the current address within the file
  • Added support for printing 128 bit values
  • Added attributes
    • The attribute syntax is similar to the one found in C++ [[attr("value")]] and allows configuring extra parameters for variables. Currently available are the following:
    • name : Overrides the name displayed in the pattern data view
    • color : Overrides the color displayed in the pattern data view
    • comment : Adds a comment to the variable in the pattern data view
• Added Light and Classic color mode, changeable in the new settings interface
• Added data processor
  • This is a huge feature that allows preprocessing of data before it is shown in the hex view through a node system.
  • Currently following features are supported
    • Bitwise operations
    • Boolean operations
    • Control flow (if and co)
    • Base64 and hexadecimal decoding
    • AES decryption (all commonly used modes)
  • Besides this there's also a Nodes API that allows plugin devs to implement their own nodes
• Added full localization support
  • Through custom plugins, ImHex can now be fully translated to other languages
  • Language selection is done through the settings menu
• Added custom file encoding features
  • This allows for example ROM hackers to provide so called Thingy files that map byte sequences to UTF-8 characters. These decodings will be displayed to the right of the ASCII pane in the hex view
• Added set base address option to hex editor
• Added settings interface
• Added color picker for Bookmark header and selection color
  • Also added a tooltip window for bookmarks when hovering over their region in the hex view
• Added keyboard navigation. Thanks to @csinkers
• Improved suggested pattern popup to now list all available patterns instead of just the first one
• Added a nice welcome screen
• Added support for Home, End, PageUp and PageDown keys in hex view
• Added base converter tool
• Added footer and an API to add information to it

Improvements

• Most popup windows can now be closed with the ESC key
• All built-in features of ImHex are now refactored into a "builtin" plugin
• Improved about page to contain actual links and better information
• Improved error displaying for when files failed to open
• Switched to mbedtls instead of openssl for crypto operations

Bug fixes

• Fixed issues with plugins
• Fixed signed integer display in data inspector
• Fixed many crashes especially on Linux
• Disabled multi-viewport support on Linux as it's just not ready yet to be used there
  • Once ImGui updates and adds better support for Linux, this will be reverted
• Fixed multiple memory leaks
• Fixed search feature in hex view
• Fixed hex view shortcuts
• Fixed multiple instances of popups only appearing when certain views are open
• Fixed bookmarks being created and displayed in wrong positions in huge files

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