Low power mode fix, better unicode font handling, fixes for Arch Linux

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

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
  • 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

If you like my work, please consider supporting me on GitHub Sponsors, Patreon or PayPal. Thanks a lot!

Drastically lower CPU usage, better error recovery, fixed import statements

Improvements

• Improved ability to recover from exceptions thrown in the main thread
• Drastically improved frame rendering algorithm
  • ImHex doesn't use huge amounts of CPU and GPU power anymore now (especially on Linux!)
• Hex editor minimap rows now stay a constant size when resizing the window
• Improved error handling when loading Projects

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Project files being opened like regular files when opened through the command line or Open With
• Fixed yara rules not being read correctly in the advanced information section of the information view
• The Import menu is no longer disabled now when having a Read-only provider opened
• Fixed read-only information toast appearing for all providers
• Fixed crash when trying to calculate CRCs in the hashes view
• Fixed automatic pattern loading based on MIME types not working anymore
• Fixed resizing files or inserting bytes inside of files causing all data afterwards to be lost
• Fixed clicking on items while ImHex isn't focused not working
• Fixed a rare crash when downloading multiple items at once from the content store

Pattern Language

• Fixed template types imported using an import statement not working correctly
• Fixed crash due to infinite recursion in the validator

Previous Changelog

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
  • 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

If you like my work, please consider supporting me on GitHub Sponsors, Patreon or PayPal. Thanks a lot!

Better data analysis, Myers diffing algorithm and UI improvements

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
  • 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

If you like my work, please consider supporting me on GitHub Sponsors, Patreon or PayPal. Thanks a lot!

Working M1 build, working custom plugins

Additions

• Fixed the M1 build completely
  • I went out and bought a MacBook Air just for this, I hope you're happy
• Completely overhauled the external plugin system
  • ImHex now ships with an SDK and a template that can be used to create plugins
  • When you make Plugins now, they should just work on other people's computers now without weird missing symbols errors
• Num Keys can now be used as arrow, home, end, page up and down keys when numlock is off
• Added very simple HTTP Tool
  • Basically a stripped down version of Postman / a frontend for curl

Improvements

• Added prettier progress bar animation for tasks that don't have any progress
• Removed window name from the title bar on macOS
• Moved the documentation search directly into the Help menu
• Enabled antialiasing by default on custom fonts

Bug Fixes

• Logs in log view not being filtered correctly
• Update All button in store not working correctly
• Fixed Yara Rules Add button not doing anything
• Custom highlighting didn't apply properly to the ASCII column
• Fixed Ubuntu builds missing commit informations
• Fixed issue where ImHex wouldn't go into low power mode properly

Previous Changes

This release has been cooking for a very long time and encompasses over 500 commits improving basically every single aspect of ImHex in one way or another. Hope y'all like it ❤️

Additions

• ImHex is now available for the Web!
  • It supports basically 99% of all features that the native version does (minus things like process memory, raw disk providers and some other things that browsers just don't have access to)
  • Check it out at https://web.imhex.werwolv.net
  • Support was added entirely by @iTrooz. Massive thanks to him!
• ImHex now has a native Apple M1 build!
  • Currently this version is cross compiled from Linux
  • It is unsigned and distributed in a zip file instead of a dmg (You might need to disable SIP to run it)
  • Any PRs improving this are highly welcome!
  • Again huge thanks to @iTrooz for adding this
• Added a Auto Updater
  • Currently this supports the Windows MSI version, Ubuntu and macOS dmg version.
• Added a shortcut manager to the Settings
• Added Markdown reports
  • This system allows you to export things like bookmarks, patterns and data information to a markdown file for easy documentation
• Greatly improve the Undo/Redo system
  • This now allows you to undo and redo things like resizes, insertions and removals that previously were irreversible
  • Important to note is, all changes made in ImHex still get applied to the file directly!
• Added option to specify custom highlighting rules to set the foreground color of bytes according to boolean equations
• Added Workspaces
  • These enhance the old Layout system by allowing you to create multiple workspaces all with their own layouts and freely switch between them
• Added a minimal layout
  • Many people just want to have a dirt simple Hex Editor and not all the extra features ImHex offers
  • The minimal layout is meant for them. It hides everything except the hex editor and makes the UI much simpler
• Added automatic backups
  • Ever had ImHex crash on you randomly in the middle of work you haven't saved? Well now automatic backups can be enabled in the settings to they are created every N seconds
• Added a interactive tutorial
  • There's currently just a simple one to get people started but more will be added in the future
• Merged in old ExtraHashes plugin
  • This adds support for about 20 new hashes such as Adler32, Blake, Tiger and Murmur
• The Process Memory provider can now be used in Linux. Thanks a lot to @trumank
• Added support for locking layouts
• Replaced weird Import -> Base 64 option with a full Base64 provider
  • This provider can transparently decode and re-encode base64 files to view and modify them
• Added support for Fedora 39, removed support for Fedora 37. Thanks to @jonathanspw
• Added support for hiding individual data inspector rows
• Added simple right click context menu to the pattern editor
• Added setting to enable colored pattern row backgrounds
• Added bitwise shift left/right nodes to the data processor
• Added release notes and commits to about page
• Added some fun things :)
• Added simple data access graph to pattern editor when a pattern is being executed
• All the copy-as formatters can now output data directly to a file
• Patterns in the pattern data view can now be filtered by value
  • For example using myStruct.* > 5 shows all members inside of myStruct with a value greater than 5
• Added a TCP Client/Server tester tool
• Added a simple function graphing calculator tool
• Added euclidean algorithms tool
• Added a search bar to open the command palette to the title bar
• Added pretty syntax highlighting to the demangler tool
• Added support for making fonts bold or italic
• Vastly improved the 3D Visualizer to render the model much nicer. Thanks a lot to @paxcut
  • This includes specular lighting, light colors, wireframe mode, a grid and axes arrows
• Added --hexdump subcommand to the CLI to get a hexdump of a file
• Added --demangle subcommand to the CLI to demangle symbols
• Added setting to enable resource usage widgets in the footer
• Added new unit conversion tool to command pallette
  • It currently supports switching between different number formats as well as byte / bit representations
  • Some valid inputs are 5MiB in hex, 0x42000 to Mb or 0xAABBCC in decimal
• Added support for searching for specific strings in UTF-16 and while ignoring the character case
• Added button to export pattern language sections to a file

Improvements

• Rewrote, restructured and redesigned Settings interface
• Updated ImGui to v1.90
  • We also merged in the new Shadows branch to add pretty shadows to all windows
• Lots and lots of UI improvements
  • Replaced many info and error popup modals with toasts
• Lots and lots of internal rewrites, restructures and refactors
  • Most of these changes aren't user-facing, however they made many systems much more stable so they won't break as easily anymore in the future
• Scrolling in the hex editor now works much nicer
  • A entire 64 bit address space can now be displayed on one virtual page without losing precision
• Drastically improved performance of some background tasks
  • Analyzing data regions and searching through the data will be much faster now
• Edit -> Jump to can now jump to big and little endian addresses
• ImHex now supports using integrated GPUs on macOS
• The Raw Disk Provider now lists all physical drives on Windows and displays more friendly disk names now
• Default magic database is now bundled with application instead of being part of the content store
• The ImHex window is now force set to be 100% opaque which should fix issues where the window is partially transparent on some GPUs
• Newly opened windows are now automatically docked instead of floating around
• Improved "Unsaved Changes" popup that shows up when closing unsaved providers
• Zeros in the HTML formatted data are now grayed out
• Shift-Backspace now works in the pattern editor
• The color picker tool is much more useful now
  • Added support for outputting colors in many different bit layouts with a specifyable amount of bits
  • Added displaying of the name of the selected color
• Fixed docking two tool windows to each other making both disappear
• Files that are inside of subfolders now display their relative path in the file chooser popup
• Advanced provider settings (when available) are now part of the sidebar
• Hovering over a color in the Theme Manager now flashes that color in yellow in the UI
• CRC32 now uses reflected version by default as that is the standard. Thanks to @qux-bbb
• Many tables now refuse to collapse to zero-height
• Glyphs in the font atlas are now packed more efficiently so GPUs won't reject the texture as often anymore
• Bookmark addresses can now be changed in the UI after creating them
• The hex editor's footer is now collapsible
• More popups can now be closed by pressing Escape
• ImHex now tries to only render frames when it has to, saving more system resources
• Fixed some issues where settings might be reset in rare cases

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where no provider was being selected when closing a provider in some cases
• Fixed console opening and not disappearing when using the Windows Terminal
• Moving windows that overlap with the main window title bar no longer move the main window
• Popups that are not visible on the screen anymore are now properly reset back to the center
• Hovering over a provider tab always showed information about the current provider
• Fixed a crash when opening invalid files through the CLI
• Fixed achievement triggering every single time a file was opened through the CLI
• Fixed issues where the recursion check in the data processor triggered too early
• Fixed data processor workspaces not always loading correctly from a project file
• Fixed issues where the native scaling of ImHex was way too small
• Fixed modifying bytes sometimes get populated with incorrect values
• Fixed binary pattern search being broken with alignments greater than 1
• Fixed file picker not handling supported extensions correctly
• Fixed crash when using a too large column count in the hex editor
• Fixed issues with unary operators when evaluating mathematical expressions
• Fixed out-of-bounds reads when opening a zero-sized file
• Fixed highlight colors of bookmarks in the hex editor not changing when updating the bookmark's color
• Fixed opening files with non-ASCII file paths from the command line
• Fixed numeric search tool not displayin...

[Packaging fixes] Web and M1 version, Workspaces, Tutorials, Auto backups and more

Bug Fixes

• Ubuntu package no longer refers to an invalid libarchive package
• Windows packages now include libarchive and libcapstone dlls
• Library plugins are properly being initialized on macOS now
• ImHex doesn't crash anymore when opening the diffing view

Previous Changes

This release has been cooking for a very long time and encompasses over 500 commits improving basically every single aspect of ImHex in one way or another. Hope y'all like it ❤️

Additions

• ImHex is now available for the Web!
  • It supports basically 99% of all features that the native version does (minus things like process memory, raw disk providers and some other things that browsers just don't have access to)
  • Check it out at https://web.imhex.werwolv.net
  • Support was added entirely by @iTrooz. Massive thanks to him!
• ImHex now has a native Apple M1 build!
  • Currently this version is cross compiled from Linux
  • It is unsigned and distributed in a zip file instead of a dmg (You might need to disable SIP to run it)
  • Any PRs improving this are highly welcome!
  • Again huge thanks to @iTrooz for adding this
• Added a Auto Updater
  • Currently this supports the Windows MSI version, Ubuntu and macOS dmg version.
• Added a shortcut manager to the Settings
• Added Markdown reports
  • This system allows you to export things like bookmarks, patterns and data information to a markdown file for easy documentation
• Greatly improve the Undo/Redo system
  • This now allows you to undo and redo things like resizes, insertions and removals that previously were irreversible
  • Important to note is, all changes made in ImHex still get applied to the file directly!
• Added option to specify custom highlighting rules to set the foreground color of bytes according to boolean equations
• Added Workspaces
  • These enhance the old Layout system by allowing you to create multiple workspaces all with their own layouts and freely switch between them
• Added a minimal layout
  • Many people just want to have a dirt simple Hex Editor and not all the extra features ImHex offers
  • The minimal layout is meant for them. It hides everything except the hex editor and makes the UI much simpler
• Added automatic backups
  • Ever had ImHex crash on you randomly in the middle of work you haven't saved? Well now automatic backups can be enabled in the settings to they are created every N seconds
• Added a interactive tutorial
  • There's currently just a simple one to get people started but more will be added in the future
• Merged in old ExtraHashes plugin
  • This adds support for about 20 new hashes such as Adler32, Blake, Tiger and Murmur
• The Process Memory provider can now be used in Linux. Thanks a lot to @trumank
• Added support for locking layouts
• Replaced weird Import -> Base 64 option with a full Base64 provider
  • This provider can transparently decode and re-encode base64 files to view and modify them
• Added support for Fedora 39, removed support for Fedora 37. Thanks to @jonathanspw
• Added support for hiding individual data inspector rows
• Added simple right click context menu to the pattern editor
• Added setting to enable colored pattern row backgrounds
• Added bitwise shift left/right nodes to the data processor
• Added release notes and commits to about page
• Added some fun things :)
• Added simple data access graph to pattern editor when a pattern is being executed
• All the copy-as formatters can now output data directly to a file
• Patterns in the pattern data view can now be filtered by value
  • For example using myStruct.* > 5 shows all members inside of myStruct with a value greater than 5
• Added a TCP Client/Server tester tool
• Added a simple function graphing calculator tool
• Added euclidean algorithms tool
• Added a search bar to open the command palette to the title bar
• Added pretty syntax highlighting to the demangler tool
• Added support for making fonts bold or italic
• Vastly improved the 3D Visualizer to render the model much nicer. Thanks a lot to @paxcut
  • This includes specular lighting, light colors, wireframe mode, a grid and axes arrows
• Added --hexdump subcommand to the CLI to get a hexdump of a file
• Added --demangle subcommand to the CLI to demangle symbols
• Added setting to enable resource usage widgets in the footer
• Added new unit conversion tool to command pallette
  • It currently supports switching between different number formats as well as byte / bit representations
  • Some valid inputs are 5MiB in hex, 0x42000 to Mb or 0xAABBCC in decimal
• Added support for searching for specific strings in UTF-16 and while ignoring the character case
• Added button to export pattern language sections to a file

Improvements

• Rewrote, restructured and redesigned Settings interface
• Updated ImGui to v1.90
  • We also merged in the new Shadows branch to add pretty shadows to all windows
• Lots and lots of UI improvements
  • Replaced many info and error popup modals with toasts
• Lots and lots of internal rewrites, restructures and refactors
  • Most of these changes aren't user-facing, however they made many systems much more stable so they won't break as easily anymore in the future
• Scrolling in the hex editor now works much nicer
  • A entire 64 bit address space can now be displayed on one virtual page without losing precision
• Drastically improved performance of some background tasks
  • Analyzing data regions and searching through the data will be much faster now
• Edit -> Jump to can now jump to big and little endian addresses
• ImHex now supports using integrated GPUs on macOS
• The Raw Disk Provider now lists all physical drives on Windows and displays more friendly disk names now
• Default magic database is now bundled with application instead of being part of the content store
• The ImHex window is now force set to be 100% opaque which should fix issues where the window is partially transparent on some GPUs
• Newly opened windows are now automatically docked instead of floating around
• Improved "Unsaved Changes" popup that shows up when closing unsaved providers
• Zeros in the HTML formatted data are now grayed out
• Shift-Backspace now works in the pattern editor
• The color picker tool is much more useful now
  • Added support for outputting colors in many different bit layouts with a specifyable amount of bits
  • Added displaying of the name of the selected color
• Fixed docking two tool windows to each other making both disappear
• Files that are inside of subfolders now display their relative path in the file chooser popup
• Advanced provider settings (when available) are now part of the sidebar
• Hovering over a color in the Theme Manager now flashes that color in yellow in the UI
• CRC32 now uses reflected version by default as that is the standard. Thanks to @qux-bbb
• Many tables now refuse to collapse to zero-height
• Glyphs in the font atlas are now packed more efficiently so GPUs won't reject the texture as often anymore
• Bookmark addresses can now be changed in the UI after creating them
• The hex editor's footer is now collapsible
• More popups can now be closed by pressing Escape
• ImHex now tries to only render frames when it has to, saving more system resources
• Fixed some issues where settings might be reset in rare cases

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where no provider was being selected when closing a provider in some cases
• Fixed console opening and not disappearing when using the Windows Terminal
• Moving windows that overlap with the main window title bar no longer move the main window
• Popups that are not visible on the screen anymore are now properly reset back to the center
• Hovering over a provider tab always showed information about the current provider
• Fixed a crash when opening invalid files through the CLI
• Fixed achievement triggering every single time a file was opened through the CLI
• Fixed issues where the recursion check in the data processor triggered too early
• Fixed data processor workspaces not always loading correctly from a project file
• Fixed issues where the native scaling of ImHex was way too small
• Fixed modifying bytes sometimes get populated with incorrect values
• Fixed binary pattern search being broken with alignments greater than 1
• Fixed file picker not handling supported extensions correctly
• Fixed crash when using a too large column count in the hex editor
• Fixed issues with unary operators when evaluating mathematical expressions
• Fixed out-of-bounds reads when opening a zero-sized file
• Fixed highlight colors of bookmarks in the hex editor not changing when updating the bookmark's color
• Fixed opening files with non-ASCII file paths from the command line
• Fixed numeric search tool not displaying values in the correct endianess
• Fixed diffing view highlighting not working correctly with a custom base address

Pattern Language

• Ongoing: Big parts of the Pattern Language are currently being rewritten in order to drastically improve usability, speed and reliability
• Added support for writing back to the data source
  • Adding #pragma allow_edits and then just assigning to a placed variable will now modify the analyzed data
• Added support for decompressing data
• Pattern non-type template parameters are no longer added to the output
• Fixed std::math::atan2 not being registered correctly
• Fixed a bunch of other issues

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Web and M1 version, Workspaces, Tutorials, Auto backups and more

This release has been cooking for a very long time and encompasses over 500 commits improving basically every single aspect of ImHex in one way or another. Hope y'all like it ❤️

Additions

• ImHex is now available for the Web!
  • It supports basically 99% of all features that the native version does (minus things like process memory, raw disk providers and some other things that browsers just don't have access to)
  • Check it out at https://web.imhex.werwolv.net
  • Support was added entirely by @iTrooz. Massive thanks to him!
• ImHex now has a native Apple M1 build!
  • Currently this version is cross compiled from Linux
  • It is unsigned and distributed in a zip file instead of a dmg (You might need to disable SIP to run it)
  • Any PRs improving this are highly welcome!
  • Again huge thanks to @iTrooz for adding this
• Added a Auto Updater
  • Currently this supports the Windows MSI version, Ubuntu and macOS dmg version.
• Added a shortcut manager to the Settings
• Added Markdown reports
  • This system allows you to export things like bookmarks, patterns and data information to a markdown file for easy documentation
• Greatly improve the Undo/Redo system
  • This now allows you to undo and redo things like resizes, insertions and removals that previously were irreversible
  • Important to note is, all changes made in ImHex still get applied to the file directly!
• Added option to specify custom highlighting rules to set the foreground color of bytes according to boolean equations
• Added Workspaces
  • These enhance the old Layout system by allowing you to create multiple workspaces all with their own layouts and freely switch between them
• Added a minimal layout
  • Many people just want to have a dirt simple Hex Editor and not all the extra features ImHex offers
  • The minimal layout is meant for them. It hides everything except the hex editor and makes the UI much simpler
• Added automatic backups
  • Ever had ImHex crash on you randomly in the middle of work you haven't saved? Well now automatic backups can be enabled in the settings to they are created every N seconds
• Added a interactive tutorial
  • There's currently just a simple one to get people started but more will be added in the future
• Merged in old ExtraHashes plugin
  • This adds support for about 20 new hashes such as Adler32, Blake, Tiger and Murmur
• The Process Memory provider can now be used in Linux. Thanks a lot to @trumank
• Added support for locking layouts
• Replaced weird Import -> Base 64 option with a full Base64 provider
  • This provider can transparently decode and re-encode base64 files to view and modify them
• Added support for Fedora 39, removed support for Fedora 37. Thanks to @jonathanspw
• Added support for hiding individual data inspector rows
• Added simple right click context menu to the pattern editor
• Added setting to enable colored pattern row backgrounds
• Added bitwise shift left/right nodes to the data processor
• Added release notes and commits to about page
• Added some fun things :)
• Added simple data access graph to pattern editor when a pattern is being executed
• All the copy-as formatters can now output data directly to a file
• Patterns in the pattern data view can now be filtered by value
  • For example using myStruct.* > 5 shows all members inside of myStruct with a value greater than 5
• Added a TCP Client/Server tester tool
• Added a simple function graphing calculator tool
• Added euclidean algorithms tool
• Added a search bar to open the command palette to the title bar
• Added pretty syntax highlighting to the demangler tool
• Added support for making fonts bold or italic
• Vastly improved the 3D Visualizer to render the model much nicer. Thanks a lot to @paxcut
  • This includes specular lighting, light colors, wireframe mode, a grid and axes arrows
• Added --hexdump subcommand to the CLI to get a hexdump of a file
• Added --demangle subcommand to the CLI to demangle symbols
• Added setting to enable resource usage widgets in the footer
• Added new unit conversion tool to command pallette
  • It currently supports switching between different number formats as well as byte / bit representations
  • Some valid inputs are 5MiB in hex, 0x42000 to Mb or 0xAABBCC in decimal
• Added support for searching for specific strings in UTF-16 and while ignoring the character case
• Added button to export pattern language sections to a file

Improvements

• Rewrote, restructured and redesigned Settings interface
• Updated ImGui to v1.90
  • We also merged in the new Shadows branch to add pretty shadows to all windows
• Lots and lots of UI improvements
  • Replaced many info and error popup modals with toasts
• Lots and lots of internal rewrites, restructures and refactors
  • Most of these changes aren't user-facing, however they made many systems much more stable so they won't break as easily anymore in the future
• Scrolling in the hex editor now works much nicer
  • A entire 64 bit address space can now be displayed on one virtual page without losing precision
• Drastically improved performance of some background tasks
  • Analyzing data regions and searching through the data will be much faster now
• Edit -> Jump to can now jump to big and little endian addresses
• ImHex now supports using integrated GPUs on macOS
• The Raw Disk Provider now lists all physical drives on Windows and displays more friendly disk names now
• Default magic database is now bundled with application instead of being part of the content store
• The ImHex window is now force set to be 100% opaque which should fix issues where the window is partially transparent on some GPUs
• Newly opened windows are now automatically docked instead of floating around
• Improved "Unsaved Changes" popup that shows up when closing unsaved providers
• Zeros in the HTML formatted data are now grayed out
• Shift-Backspace now works in the pattern editor
• The color picker tool is much more useful now
  • Added support for outputting colors in many different bit layouts with a specifyable amount of bits
  • Added displaying of the name of the selected color
• Fixed docking two tool windows to each other making both disappear
• Files that are inside of subfolders now display their relative path in the file chooser popup
• Advanced provider settings (when available) are now part of the sidebar
• Hovering over a color in the Theme Manager now flashes that color in yellow in the UI
• CRC32 now uses reflected version by default as that is the standard. Thanks to @qux-bbb
• Many tables now refuse to collapse to zero-height
• Glyphs in the font atlas are now packed more efficiently so GPUs won't reject the texture as often anymore
• Bookmark addresses can now be changed in the UI after creating them
• The hex editor's footer is now collapsible
• More popups can now be closed by pressing Escape
• ImHex now tries to only render frames when it has to, saving more system resources
• Fixed some issues where settings might be reset in rare cases

Bug Fixes

• Fixed issue where no provider was being selected when closing a provider in some cases
• Fixed console opening and not disappearing when using the Windows Terminal
• Moving windows that overlap with the main window title bar no longer move the main window
• Popups that are not visible on the screen anymore are now properly reset back to the center
• Hovering over a provider tab always showed information about the current provider
• Fixed a crash when opening invalid files through the CLI
• Fixed achievement triggering every single time a file was opened through the CLI
• Fixed issues where the recursion check in the data processor triggered too early
• Fixed data processor workspaces not always loading correctly from a project file
• Fixed issues where the native scaling of ImHex was way too small
• Fixed modifying bytes sometimes get populated with incorrect values
• Fixed binary pattern search being broken with alignments greater than 1
• Fixed file picker not handling supported extensions correctly
• Fixed crash when using a too large column count in the hex editor
• Fixed issues with unary operators when evaluating mathematical expressions
• Fixed out-of-bounds reads when opening a zero-sized file
• Fixed highlight colors of bookmarks in the hex editor not changing when updating the bookmark's color
• Fixed opening files with non-ASCII file paths from the command line
• Fixed numeric search tool not displaying values in the correct endianess
• Fixed diffing view highlighting not working correctly with a custom base address

Pattern Language

• Ongoing: Big parts of the Pattern Language are currently being rewritten in order to drastically improve usability, speed and reliability
• Added support for writing back to the data source
  • Adding #pragma allow_edits and then just assigning to a placed variable will now modify the analyzed data
• Added support for decompressing data
• Pattern non-type template parameters are no longer added to the output
• Fixed std::math::atan2 not being registered correctly
• Fixed a bunch of other issues

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Command Line Interface, .NET scripts, Achievements

Additions

• Added a command line interface to ImHex. Huge thanks to @iTrooz
  • Get started by typing imhex --help
• Added initial support for .NET scripts
  • These scripts are meant to be a cross-platform way of performing automated actions.
  • They cannot be used to add new features like native plugins can
  • Special thanks to @PerikiyoXD for some really involved fixes around this
• Added Achievements
  • These are meant to provide an easy and fun way to learn and get used to ImHex
  • The achievement window can be opened by going to Extras -> Achievement
  • If you don't like the achievements and just want to use ImHex like before, open the achievements window and disable the popups there
• Added a new and much nicer splash screen
• Allow memory files to be saved to project files and be renamed
  • Files can also be converted to memory files now
• Added support for hashing arbitrary strings using the hashes view
• Added built-in logging console
• Allow hex editor data visualizers to be switched to big-endian mode
• Upgraded to Capstone V5 finally
• Encoding names are now being displayed in the header of the hex editor
• Added a "Update All" button to the content store
• Linux now uses the GTK filepicker whenever possible
  • This should correct issues where the file picker didn't work correctly on some Linux systems by default
  • The AppImage and Flatpak still use the Portals filepicker because it's necessary there
• The hex editor editing mode is now being entered when pressing Enter
• Added a setting to remember the current main window size and position
• Added option to fill a selected region with bytes
• Added option to switch between human-readable sizes and bytes in the hex editor footer. Thanks to @LennardF1989
• Removed Anonfiles file uploader. Rest in Peace ✝️
• Added windo actions popup when clicking on the header icon
• Added authors and descriptions to things in the content store
• Added shortcuts to switch between providers, evaluate patterns and interact with the pattern debugger

Improvements

• Improved the data information diagrams look and field
• Multi-window support is now being disabled properly by default on Linux
• Plugins are now being loaded asynchronously to improve startup times
• Pattern console is automatically scrolled to the bottom now when new lines are being added
• Unidentifiable data is being handled better now in the data information view
• Allow hex editor view to be scrolled slightly past the end
• Made demangler results selectable and copyable
• Timestamp of files is being updated correctly now on Windows. Thanks to @lorsanta
• ImHex should now exit cleanly when crashing
• Bytes per row count setting in the hex editor is being remembered now. Thanks to @LennardF1989

Bug Fixes

• Fixed raw disk provider not working correctly on non-windows platforms. Thanks a lot to @Nowilltolife
• Fixed disassembler view not clearning selection when typing in the region field
• Fixed page count displaying wrongly in empty files
• Fixed crash when trying to paste bytes without a selection
• Fixed occasional crash when evaluating patterns
• Fixed scaling not being applied properly in some cases
• Fixed bookmarks not being loaded correctly from project files
• Fixed menu bar being scrollable sideways
• Fixed loading projects when an existing project is loaded already
• Fixed issues where the cursor started flickering when hovering certain elements
• Fixed crash when clicking on "Open in new view" in a bookmark
• Fixed occasional crash when loading incorrect data processor node files
• Fixed writing to non-zero pages in the hex editor when a custom base address has been set
• Fixed issue where libmagic dumped a bunch of compiled files into the cwd on Linux and macOS. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Fixed endianess of all CRC hashes
• Fixed highest/lowest entropy block address in the data information view being wrong
• Fixed issue where downloading items from the store was suceptible for path traversal. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Fixed various data processor issues

Pattern Language

• Added typenameof operator
• Added [[hex::favorite]] attribute to mark patterns as favorites directly
• Added [[hex::group]] attribute to add patterns to custom groups in the pattern data view
• Added single-stepping feature to pattern debugger
• Added coordinates visualizer
• Added timestamp visualizer
• Images in the pattern image and bitmap visualizer can now be scaled
• Added various new inline visualizers such as "color", "guage" and "button"
• Format functions are no longer being evaluated during highlighting
• Sections without a name are being hidden now and treated as "internal" sections
• Added [[hex::spec_name]] attribute to document names for pattern variables taken from the documentation
• Added string in/out variables
• Fixed issue where pattern local variables sometimes allocated huge amounts of memory

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Font loading and favorite pattern fixes

Improvements

• The Accept Pattern popup can now be closed using Escape

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused the unifont font to not be loaded correctly causing mainly asian languages to not display correctly
• Fixed a rendering issue with the entropy and byte type graph
• Fixed hex editor hovering tooltips of large arrays causing ImHex to lag a lot
• Fixed favorites loading in large patterns causing ImHex to freeze

Previous Release

Additions

• Added option to export generated pattern data
  • This allows you to export your current patterns as JSON, YAML and HTML
• Added a debugger to debug your pattern code
  • This allows setting breakpoints, halting the execution and inspecting the value of variables
• Added option to upload crash logs to help us fix issues more quickly. Huge thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Added optional usage statistics reporting. Huge thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Added provider tab right click menu with provider-specific options
  • The file provider for example has a option to open the file location in the explorer or open the file in an external editor
• Recent providers can now be removed from the list in the welcome screen by right clicking them and selecting "Remove". Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added support for changing the hex editor page size
• Opened projects are now being saved to the recent entries
• Added a native error message when the GLFW fails to be created. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added a replace feature to the find view
• Added advanced provider information when hovering over its tab and holding down SHIFT
• Updated ImGui and its extension libraries to the newest versions. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
• Added filter option to the pattern data view
• Added support for marking specific patterns in the pattern data view as favorite
• The pattern editor console can now be resized and text in it can be selected and copied
• Pattern language console log is now always printed immediately
• The Offset column in the pattern data view has been split into a Start and End column

Improvements

• The files in the file chooser popup now appear in alphabetical order
• Themes can now make use of Windows's acrylic blur window background
• Drastically improved crash backup and restore logic
• Additional title bar buttons are now being displayed when not running in borderless window mode. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Drastically improved loading times for custom encoding files
• Projects that fail to load now display a detailed error message. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Drastically improve usefulnes of stacktraces, especially on Windows.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rendering issues with custom encodings. Thanks a lot to @shenlebantongying
• Entropy and byte type distribution graph now always fill out the entire diagram width
• Fixed issue where view-sepecific shortcuts would get applied globally
• Fixed issue where ranges found by find view were not being highlighted
• Fixed invalid key code error being spammed in the console
• Fixed a crash when sorting the value column in the pattern data view
• Fixed issues where the intel hex provider didn't display any data
• Fixed an issue where projects couldn't be saved if the current provider wasn't writable
• Fixed commit hash and branch not being displayed correctly in various places

Pattern Language

• Added #pragma magic to automatically load patterns based on a sequence of bytes at a specific location in the data instead of using MIME types
• Added a new hex_viewer visualizer
• Added the [[export]] attribute to display pattern local variable in the pattern data view
• Massively improved handling of local variables
  • Variables used in functions, function parameters and pattern local variables should now behave a lot more like you'd expect
• Fixed issues with the pattern 3D visualizer calculating normal vectors incorrectly. Thanks to @paxcut
• Fixed issue where loops and conditionals increased the parent stack
• Fixed a crash when pragmas didn't end with a new line
• Fixed static arrays displaying the same value for all entries
• Fixed handling of return statements in global scope

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Pattern language debugger, [[export]]ing local patterns, pattern data view improvements

Additions

• Added option to export generated pattern data
  • This allows you to export your current patterns as JSON, YAML and HTML
• Added a debugger to debug your pattern code
  • This allows setting breakpoints, halting the execution and inspecting the value of variables
• Added option to upload crash logs to help us fix issues more quickly. Huge thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Added optional usage statistics reporting. Huge thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Added provider tab right click menu with provider-specific options
  • The file provider for example has a option to open the file location in the explorer or open the file in an external editor
• Recent providers can now be removed from the list in the welcome screen by right clicking them and selecting "Remove". Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added support for changing the hex editor page size
• Opened projects are now being saved to the recent entries
• Added a native error message when the GLFW fails to be created. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added a replace feature to the find view
• Added advanced provider information when hovering over its tab and holding down SHIFT
• Updated ImGui and its extension libraries to the newest versions. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
• Added filter option to the pattern data view
• Added support for marking specific patterns in the pattern data view as favorite
• The pattern editor console can now be resized and text in it can be selected and copied
• Pattern language console log is now always printed immediately
• The Offset column in the pattern data view has been split into a Start and End column

Improvements

• The files in the file chooser popup now appear in alphabetical order
• Themes can now make use of Windows's acrylic blur window background
• Drastically improved crash backup and restore logic
• Additional title bar buttons are now being displayed when not running in borderless window mode. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Drastically improved loading times for custom encoding files
• Projects that fail to load now display a detailed error message. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Drastically improve usefulnes of stacktraces, especially on Windows.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rendering issues with custom encodings. Thanks a lot to @shenlebantongying
• Entropy and byte type distribution graph now always fill out the entire diagram width
• Fixed issue where view-sepecific shortcuts would get applied globally
• Fixed issue where ranges found by find view were not being highlighted
• Fixed invalid key code error being spammed in the console
• Fixed a crash when sorting the value column in the pattern data view
• Fixed issues where the intel hex provider didn't display any data
• Fixed an issue where projects couldn't be saved if the current provider wasn't writable
• Fixed commit hash and branch not being displayed correctly in various places

Pattern Language

• Added #pragma magic to automatically load patterns based on a sequence of bytes at a specific location in the data instead of using MIME types
• Added a new hex_viewer visualizer
• Added the [[export]] attribute to display pattern local variable in the pattern data view
• Massively improved handling of local variables
  • Variables used in functions, function parameters and pattern local variables should now behave a lot more like you'd expect
• Fixed issues with the pattern 3D visualizer calculating normal vectors incorrectly. Thanks to @paxcut
• Fixed issue where loops and conditionals increased the parent stack
• Fixed a crash when pragmas didn't end with a new line
• Fixed static arrays displaying the same value for all entries
• Fixed handling of return statements in global scope

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Custom layouts, Spanish translation, try-catch statements

Additions

• Added support for saving / loading your own Layouts!
• Added spanish translation. Thanks a lot to @XorTroll
• Added a network control interface
  • When enabled, external tools can now send commands to ImHex over a TCP Socket
• Added non-ranged and aligned value search to find view
• Added a Documentation helper AI window where you can ask questions about ImHex and the Pattern Language
• Added selection range radio button to various views to allow specifying of exact start/end addresses
• Added a button to restore default layout when no views are open
• Opening .hexproj files through the File -> Open menu now opens them as Projects instead of as Files
• Names and Values in the pattern data view now display tooltips when hovering over them if they're too long
• Added bit and byte reversal nodes to the data processor. Thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Drastically improve the usefulness of the IEEE754 tool. Massive thanks to @paxcut

Improvements

• ImHex now tries its best to not keep any file handles around
  • This should allow opening files in other tools while they're already open inside of ImHex.
  • For this to work, the other tool needs to support sharing the file though.
• Some things that didn't really fit in the Help menu have been moved to the new Extras menu
• Many things that accessed file data are now significantly faster
• Files in the file chooser popup can now be opened by double clicking them
• Greatly improved how popups are being handled
• Pins in the data processor are more visible now
• Buttons in the bookmarks view now have tooltips
• ImHex's FPS limit now better follows the setting
• ImHex now shows an error message when it can't open files. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Pattern highlighting is now being generated much more quickly
• About page is now resizable
• Diff table is now being cleared properly when providers are closed
• MacOS should now be able to use the Open With dialog to open a file with ImHex
• Patterns that are empty can no longer be saved
• Patterns are now being automatically re-evaluated when code sync is on and the provider is being changed
• Fixed issue where the cursor icon sometimes got stuck on Windows

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when trying to place patterns through the Edit menu
• Fixed issue where Disassembler names didn't correspond to the correct architecture
• Fixed occasional crashes when opening project files
• Fixed a bug where the last line of patterns went missing when saving / reloading them
• Multi-window support is now disabled by default on Linux as it doesn't work well. It can still be enabled in the settings.
• Fixed issue where some shortcuts triggered twice
• Fixed commit link in about page not working correctly
• Fixed provider undo stack not working correctly
• Fixed crash when patterns are being evaluated to quickly in succession
• Fixed project files failing to save when custom encodings are loaded
• Fixed issue where ImHex sometimes dumped a bunch of compiled magic files into the user's current directory
• Fixed a crash when closing providers too quickly
• Fixed Copy-As options not being disabled correctly in some cases
• Fixed issue where editing a hex cell sometimes had the wrong value in it

Pattern Language

• Added try-catch statements
• Added std::math::exp()
• The std::file functions can now write entire patterns to a file instead of just strings
• Ternary operators now correctly short-circuit
• Fixed use of templates in pointer sizes
• Fixed tons and tons of bugs

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