Improvements

• Pattern hover highlighting performance has been drastically improved
• Completely eradicated any Window flickering during resizes on Windows and the Web
• Toolbar items now have tooltips
• The web version can now be properly used on mobile and with touch inputs
• Custom plugins can once again be built using the SDK
• File dialogs now belong to the ImHex window on Linux. Thanks a lot to @btzy

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash that triggered when an auto backup was being created on macOS
• Fixed liblzma not being configured in correctly on all OSes
• Having debug mode enabled in a pattern no longer makes the UI lag out after evaluation
• The find and goto popups no longer go transparent when opening a combo box within them
• Fixed a rare crash when re-evaluating patterns while a sorting option was selected

Pattern Language

• Added builtin crc8, crc16 and crc64 hash functions
• The crc functions can now also be used with strings
• Fixed a bug where patterns passed to non-type template parameters would get hidden
• std::mem::find_sequence and co are now HUNDREDS of times faster. This includes std::mem::MagicSearcher

Previous Release

Additions

• Added basic process memory provider support to macOS
  • Due to limitations on Apple's side, this only works with SIP disabled
• View providers can now be renamed
• Added options to load files into memory or read data from disk instead, independent of the file size
• Find results can now be exported as CSVs, TSVs and JSONs. Thanks a lot to @SparkyTD
• Added various per-byte highlights to the hex editor minimap
  • The minimap can now display the highlighting of individual bytes
• Added a digital signal pattern visualizer
• The pattern data view now uses nicer colors and strings to convey information
• The recent files section on the welcome screen can now be collapsed
• You can now scroll the hex editor view faster by holding down CTRL or even faster when holding down SHIFT + CTRL
• Added a --reset-settings CLI command to clear all settings in case something gets corrupted

Improvements

• Drastically improved rendering times
• Added a small moon icon to the welcome screen in nightly builds
• Providers now close instantly
• The hex editor view no longer scrolls when jumping to a selection that's already visible
• Auto project backups are now enabled by default
• Custom data inspector rows now display a nice error message in the UI when they encountered an error
• Bookmark reordering now doesn't swap entries anymore and actually works as expected
• ImHex now displays a little dot in the close button on macOS if there's unsaved changes
• Auto backups no longer remove the dirty status of providers anymore
• SIGINT signals are now being handled to not close ImHex immediately anymore but to show a popup
• UI scaling factors are now limited between 0.1x and 4.0x to prevent issues
  • Larger values are still possible by CTRL-clicking into the slider and entering a value manually
• PageUp + PageDown no longer affects the hex editor selection
• Row highlighting in the pattern data view is now less bright so the text has a better contrast

Bug Fixes

• ImHex can now properly load files stored on network drives on Windows
• Fixed crashes when searching for certain regex strings
• Fixed an infinite loop when searching forward/backward with CTRL + F
• Fixed loading of layout files
• Fixed fonts being blurry in some cases
• Bookmark regions can now be set to 1 byte
• Fixes Alt and Ctrl being swapped in the text editor on macOS
• Fixed disassembler always disassembling in little endian
• ImHex no longer tries to store files in system paths now
• Fixed an infinite loop when exporting data selections to a file. Thanks a lot to @FireNX70
• Fixed file name display issues with files that contain unicode characters
• Fixed content store getting stuck sometimes when updating multiple items at once

Pattern Language

• continue and break now work as one would expect
• Added std::core::execute_function()
• Arrays can now be initialized using the following syntax:
  • u32 myArray[5] = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 };
• Added support for constants inside of custom types
• Unsigned, signed and floating point patterns no longer display their hex value in their value by default
• Fixed [[no_unique_address]] not working correctly with bitfields
• Patterns are now highlighted in the hex editor view when hovering over them in the pattern data view
• Patterns in the pattern data view table are now highlighted when they are fully selected in the hex editor view
• Bitfields can now be properly edited in the pattern data view
• The filter in the pattern data view now gets correctly applied again after re-evaluating a pattern

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