Additions

• Added simple insert mode to hex editor

• Small files are now loaded into memory

  • This means other applications can now open files while they're open in ImHex
  • When external changes are detected, ImHex will ask if you want to reload the file
  • For clarification, ImHex always opened files with full share permissions even before but basically no other programs do it so they still complain about the file being locked.

• Added a new ImHex Logo to the Welcome screen

• Added Hungarian translations (#1683)

• Updated Simplified Chinese translation (#1610)

• Added plain text and similar bytes regions to byte types diagram

• Added full pattern path to hex editor hover tooltip

• Added Display destination address in goto popup

• Added provider information to search bar hover tooltip

• Added support for shift-selecting multiple find view occurrences

• Added table pattern visualizer

• Added short forms for commonly used CLI commands

• Added --verbose command line option to enable debug logs

• Allow workspaces to be deleted the same way as layouts

• Allow full magic analysis, removed unidentified data from magic report

• Added a link to the "Find" view in the search popup (#1665)

• Improvements

• Added support for DWM immersive dark mode on Windows (#1636)

• The Window is now less prone to flickering during resizes on Windows

• Double clicking on the title bar in macOS now correctly maximizes the window again (#1689)

• The window now doesn't "rubber band" anymore while resizing on macOS (#1690)

• Added warning about using fractional scaling with default font

• Menu bar items now don't collapse entirely anymore if there's not enough space

• Allow providers to be closed quicker after being opened

• The pattern data filter now behaves much more intuitively

• Convert all hex editor popups to floating, movable windows (#1658)

• Don't move hex editor scroll position when jumping to address that's on-screen (#1660)

• The accept pattern popup now opens faster and closes correctly

• Make main menu bar not collapse completely when there's not enough space

• Right click menus now open much faster and feel less sluggish

• Make unsaved changes popup behave more like in other applications

• Better UI and UX for the hex editor footer

Bug Fixes

• Fixed loading custom fonts from paths with unicode characters not working
• Fixed workspaces not being deletable correctly in all cases
• Fixed crash when having path set in user folder settings page
• Fixed icon size being off when using fractional scaling with default font
• Fixed empty tooltip showing when hovering over search bar in welcome screen
• Fixed insert mode cursor not being visible
• Fixed window scaling defaulting to 1.0x instead of Native
• Fixed settings sometimes being reset on shutdown
• Fixed icon text input boxes being wider than expected
• Fixed visual glitches with highlights and selections in the hex editor view
• Fixed loading of custom data processor nodes
• Fixed locking layout not working correctly
• Fixed textEditor line numbers were still partially rendered despite mShowLineNumbers being set to false (#1669)
• Fixed edit -> Jump To -> Current Pattern not always resetting request correctly
• Fixed not being able to close certain modal popups with the close button on the title bar (#1659)
• Fixed multiple file reload popups stacking on top of each other (#1654)
• Fixed text editor cursor not showing up anymore
• Fixed command palette losing focus when pressing Alt
• Fixed frame rate getting unlocked when inputs are being processed (#1632)
• Fixed selectable text behaving weirdly when selecting
• Fixed buffer display data processor node being way too wide
• Fixed exporting selection doesn't export last byte
• Fixed missing window icon under wayland (#1633)
• Fixed cell highlighting in hex editor view overlapping at non-integer scale factors
• Fixed main window being hard to resize when bytes are selected in the hex editor view
• Fixed diff table in diffing view displaying incorrect end address (#1627)
• Fixed store hanging when updating all entries in some cases
• Fixed highlight and tooltip flickering when hovering over highlighted patterns
• Fixed icons not being fractionally scaled anymore
• Fixed settings being overwritten sometimes on crash
• Fixed unifont characters being scaled wrongly
• Fixed settings values being uninitialized by default
• Fixed crash on some platforms due to empty main menu bar
• Fixed memory leak when closing ImHex
• Fixed file changed popup showing up when saving memory mapped file

Pattern Language

• Fixed many many many crashes during parsing
• in variable values now persistent between parser runs again
• out variable values are now selectable and copyable in pattern editor
• Added support for #undef
• Preprocessing now works on a token level instead of on character level which makes it behave much more like expected
• Custom types can now be null-initialized
• Added std::file::create_directories() function

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