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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