Changelog

Additions

• Added the ability to cancel many long running tasks
  • To do this, click on the Stop button next to the task progress bar in the footer

Improvements

• Window sizes now also use the current font size to calculate their scale
• Moved the "Close welcome screen" button a bit further to the left so it won't be cut off

Bug Fixes

• Fixed multiple undefined behavior issues
• Fixed the "Learn the Pattern Language" welcome screen button pointing to the wrong URL
• Fixed automatic restarting of ImHex not always working
• Fixed Import/Export bookmarks options requiring a selection to be available
• Fixed hex editor displaying ?? for all bytes when a base address has been set

Pattern Language

• Added more array size checks
• Fixed crash when referencing a invalid type member
• Fixed error reporting in math expressions not working correctly
• Fixed issues when parsing Unions
• Fixed return statements acting like breaks when used inside of loops

Previous Changelog

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Additions

• Replaced terrible existing project file system with a much more flexible one
  • This is a breaking change. If you have existing project files, they will no longer be loadable in ImHex starting from this version
  • To still use your old projects, you can use this Python Script here to extract the different parts of the old project file as stand-alone files that can then be imported again in newer versions of ImHex
• The recents list now contain all providers, not just opened files
• Added Intel Hex and Motorola SREC provider
• Added hexadecimal size of file and selection to hex editor footer
• Added select region command
• Added close button to the welcome screen so various tools can be accessed without opening any data
• Added Bookmark Import and Export option

Improvements

• Added better support for Windows 7
  • You're still much better of by using Windows 10 or 11 instead since a bunch of things simply aren't possible on Windows 7
• Removed dependency on macOS 11 only Framework so ImHex can now run on macOS Yosemite and higher
• Switched .deb compression to gzip so it can be used on older Debian versions
• Various find view improvements. Overlapping occurrences and occurrences at the very end of the file can now be found
• Updated the LLVM demangler dependency
  • All demanglers in ImHex now support the latest C++ features as well as D and Rust mangled names
• ImHex now properly allows opening of all files on macOS when dragging a file onto its executable

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when trying to edit a hex cell
• Fixed various issues with the multi-byte visualizers
• Fixed pattern language runtime not being reset properly after checking for MIME types
• Fixed config files being placed in wrong locations on Linux
• Fixed Windows native theme detection not always working correctly
• Fixed a crash when the auto-load pattern setting is disabled

Pattern Language

• Restructured entire library and cleaned up a bunch of legacy stuff
• Updated Error messages and error display
  • All errors that are being thrown now show line/column information of the error as well as helpful error messages and hints on how to fix it (inspired by Rust errors)
• Fixed for-loop parsing
• Fixed display issues with static array entries
• Fixed reading strings that were passed to functions
• Fixed a namespace resolution crash
• Fixed array out of bounds checks

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