[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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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`match` statements, `bitfield` improvements, custom themes

New projects

• The documentation that has been finally written from scratch for most of the important features of ImHex and the Pattern Language. You can find it at https://imhex.werwolv.net/docs

• The Pattern Language is now compatible with Emscripten so it can running in a browser! A proof of concept of this is available on https://pl.werwolv.net. It can do the same thing as the plcli's format option can do, it takes a pattern and a binary file and converts it to a JSON, YAML or HTML file.

New Plugins

Two new plugins have been developed for ImHex as well!

• Malcore Plugin - Allows you to upload binary data to the Malcore service for analysis
• Hashes Plugin - Adds tons of new hashes to the hashes view

Additions

• Rewrote the entire Diffing view to make it actually usable
• Added support for custom themes
  • These themes can either be downloaded through the Content Store or created and shared yourself through the Theme Manager
• Custom nodes can now be downloaded from the Content Store
• Added rotation and scale sliders to the 3D visualizer
• Added support for loading custom CA certs
• Added binary hex cell visualizer
• ImHex now once again loads the entire unicode character plain if possible
• Added option to disable saving of recently loaded files
• File -> Save As can now be used in all providers correctly
• Most string search options can now also be applied to the regex search
• Custom data inspector rows can now be edited
• Most main menu commands can now be found in the Command Palette (CTRL + SHIFT + P)
• Added a new byte swapper tool to the tools view
• Added new CRC hash types. Thanks to @jcreedon
• Added new Fedora 38 build. Thanks to @jonathanspw

Improvements

• Text editor now properly considers underscores as part of words
• Removed x3.0 and x4.0 scaling settings as these caused issues with GPU drivers often
• Files are no longer mapped into memory when opened by ImHex so other programs can keep using them now
• The choose file dialog entries are now correctly sorted and display their full path when hovered
• CTRL + N now properly creates a new memory file provider instead of opening a file picker. Thanks to @qux-bbb
• Chunk size and analysis region can now be specified in the data information view. Thanks to @Fenrisfulsur
• Custom encoding characters are now being rendered correctly when split between two lines
• Recent items are now being limited to 5 files at max
• The Yara match list is now sortable
• Drastically improved Bookmarks view
• Improved filtering speeds of the find view
• The current commit hash and branch now correctly shows up in the About view on release builds
• Providers now display better error messages when they can't load their data. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Search processes from the find view can now be correctly canceled
• A tooltip in the settings now informs the user about selecting custom fonts and scaling them
• Improved the look and feel of the content store
• Config files are now properly stored in the correct XDG directories on Linux
• Selected custom encoding files are now correctly saved to the current project file
• When a custom encoding is loaded and the ASCII column is disabled, there is no longer a huge gap now
• The Character padding setting now properly applies to the custom encoding column
• Improve loading speed of custom encoding files

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the bug where ImHex would keep jumping back up in the hex view when making a selection
• Fixed issues where UI was scaled too large
• Fixed editing of binary values in the data inspector
• Fixed various issues with the GDB provider
• Fixed string search not including strings at the end of the data
• Fixed rendering of UTF-16BE strings in find view
• Fixed find view string search filters filtering wrong characters. Thanks to @qux-bbb
• Fixed an issue where advancing to the next row when editing a byte would load the wrong value
• Fixed Yara view filtering out all but one match
• Fixed a crash when not making a valid selection in a provider load interface
• Fixed moving around the hex editor cursor with the arrow keys
• Fixed the standard magic file not always working correctly
• Saving and loading a pattern will no longer add a new line to it
• Using Save As on the current file no longer truncates it
• Fixed rare freezes when resizing ImHex
• Fixed occasional crashes when using ImHex through the Windows Remote Desktop
• Fixed entering of decimal and float values in the hex editor with the relevant cell visualizer selected
• Fixed filtering of long strings in the find view

Pattern Language

• Added match statements. Thanks a lot to @Nowilltolife
• Added std::math::accumulate. Thanks to @Nowilltolife
• Added std::random functions
• Added std::core::set_display_name function. Thanks to @amaksoft
• Absolute MASSIVE improvements to bitfields. Huge thanks to @Zaggy1024
  • Conditionals now work correctly inside of bitfields
  • Added support for unsigned, signed, boolean and enum fields inside of bitfields
  • Added support for nested bitfields and bitfield arrays inside of bitfields
  • Replaced [[left_to_right]] and [[right_to_left]] with a [[bitfield_order]] attribute that offers more control
  • Added support for using regular types inside of bitfields
• Massive improvements to templates. Again huge thanks to @Zaggy1024
  • Templates of the same type can now be nested
  • Template types can now be inherited from
  • Fixed various issues with templates in general
• Added support for using any type as pointer size type
• Added support for compiling the PatternLanguage to WebAssembly
• CRC32 function now correctly calculates their value the same way ImHex does
• Fixed highlighting of patterns placed in custom sections
• Fixed casts changing endianess in big endian mode
• Fixed 128 bit integer sign extension
• Fixed formatting of 128 bit enums
• Fixed placing of arrays in sections from within functions
• Fixed some occurrences of duplicate identifiers not being caught
• Fixed various issues related to doc comments
• Fixed rvalue accesses in custom sections
• Fixed type operators increasing the cursor position
• Fixed modifiying of big endian values. Thanks to @soxfox42
• Fixed issues with heap and pattern-local variables
• Fixed [[hidden]] and [[highlight_hidden]] attributes not working correctly
• Fixed creating of local variables in global scope
• Fixed parsing of nested templates

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Text Editor improvements, bug fixes

Screenshots

Improvements

• Improved word selecting in text editor and added CTRL + Backspace/Delete shortcuts to delete full words

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various build issues on some Linux platforms
• Fixed safety backup restore popup getting hidden by the tip of the day popup

Pattern Language

• Fixed attributes not being applied correctly to bitfield fields
• Fixed issues where turning a type into bytes didn't correctly consider Proxy types with a zero size
• Fixed offsets of static array members getting messed up by highlighting process
• Fixed crash when returning invalid values from format/transform functions

Previous Release

Additions

• Added support for selecting OTF font files as custom fonts
• Added a new Division by Invariant Multiplication calculator tool
• Added support for specifying multiple Yara rules to be executed in order
• Added support for custom Nodes in the data processor
  • These nodes can be created directly in the editor and then exported and shared
  • We have a new section in the WerWolv/ImHex-Patterns repo for sharing these nodes!
• Added support for specifying input values for integer and float inputs on nodes directly on the node itself
• Added new builds for Fedora Rawhide, RHEL and AlmaLinux. Thanks to @jonathanspw
• Resources such as patterns, includes and scripts can now be loaded from folders relative to the current project file
• Task progress is now being displayed in the Taskbar on Windows
• Added basic stack trace output on crash
• Added support for macOS keyboard shortcut layouts. Thanks to @Kuruyia
• Added support for saving more things to project files
• Added a Base64 file exporter
• Added option to copy the selected custom encoding string
• Added a wait popup when Tasks are still running when ImHex is being closed
• Added option to import patches from a modified version of the same file

Improvements

• Project is now correctly closed when all providers have been closed. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Improved handling of Projects in general
• Improved native scaling handler on macOS
• Added a short description to the IEEE754 decoder tool
• Reordered File menu to make more logical sense
• Allow .yar and .yara files to be loaded
• Added better error messages for importing/exporting IPS patches
• The process memory provider's process and module list can now be searched case-insensitively
• The find view string finder can now be searched case-insensitively
• Updated Japanese translation. Thanks to @Berylskid
• Updated the German translation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed IEEE 754 tool typo. Thanks to @ivq
• Fixed the editing cursor not advancing automatically after the first page of data
• Fixed Intel Hex and Motorola SREC files not being openable on macOS
• Fixed issues with Yara rules not being able to include other rules
• Fixed exceptions not displaying their error messages correctly
• Fixed logs always being saved to user folders, even on portable releases
• Fixed ImHex not being able to load properly in portable mode from a folder without permissions
• Fixed rare crash when loading providers
• Fixed importing of IPS and IPS32 patches being broken
• Fixed find view not correctly accepting hexadecimal values
• Fixed copying bytes from non-zero pages not working correctly
• Fixed rendering of custom encodings on non-zero pages
• Fixed CRC8 hashing algorithm displaying 16 bits instead of 8
• Fixed loading of Hex and SREC files with new lines in them
• Fixed last row in diff view always being displayed as zeros

Pattern Language

• Added various Visualizers to graphically visualize patterns and binary data
  • Currently available Visualizers are line_plot, scatter_plot, image, bitmap, disassembler, 3d, sound
• Added option to automatically expand or flatten the pattern data tree
• Added support for specifying local variables inside of structs
• Added ability to query various informations from the currently loaded provider
• Added const variables
• application/octet-stream is no longer considered a valid MIME type as it matches any unknown format
• Bitfield field bit addresses now always specify the offset from the start of the bitfield instead of from the start of the current byte
• Fixed editing of static array values
• Fixed various issues with recursion
• Fixed character patterns not always being formatted correctly
• Fixed crash when removing out variables
• Fixed string conversions not properly trimming values
• Added better array out of bounds checks for arrays
• Custom patterns are now always being passed as references implicitly
• Fixed only the last pragma of a specific type to be executed
• Added support for attributes with more than one parameter
• Allow this to be used in variable attributes to refer to the current variable
• Fixed printing of strings with null bytes in them
• Fixed pointer values being evaluated twice
• Added null keyword
• Fixed #endif directives requiring a space behind it to work
• Added format_read_entries, format_write_entries and transform_entries attributes
• Added highlight_hidden attribute to disable highlighting of the current pattern

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Pattern Visualizers, better data processor

Screenshots

Additions

• Added support for selecting OTF font files as custom fonts
• Added a new Division by Invariant Multiplication calculator tool
• Added support for specifying multiple Yara rules to be executed in order
• Added support for custom Nodes in the data processor
  • These nodes can be created directly in the editor and then exported and shared
  • We have a new section in the WerWolv/ImHex-Patterns repo for sharing these nodes!
• Added support for specifying input values for integer and float inputs on nodes directly on the node itself
• Added new builds for Fedora Rawhide, RHEL and AlmaLinux. Thanks to @jonathanspw
• Resources such as patterns, includes and scripts can now be loaded from folders relative to the current project file
• Task progress is now being displayed in the Taskbar on Windows
• Added basic stack trace output on crash
• Added support for macOS keyboard shortcut layouts. Thanks to @Kuruyia
• Added support for saving more things to project files
• Added a Base64 file exporter
• Added option to copy the selected custom encoding string
• Added a wait popup when Tasks are still running when ImHex is being closed
• Added option to import patches from a modified version of the same file

Improvements

• Project is now correctly closed when all providers have been closed. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Improved handling of Projects in general
• Improved native scaling handler on macOS
• Added a short description to the IEEE754 decoder tool
• Reordered File menu to make more logical sense
• Allow .yar and .yara files to be loaded
• Added better error messages for importing/exporting IPS patches
• The process memory provider's process and module list can now be searched case-insensitively
• The find view string finder can now be searched case-insensitively
• Updated Japanese translation. Thanks to @Berylskid
• Updated the German translation

Bug Fixes

• Fixed IEEE 754 tool typo. Thanks to @ivq
• Fixed the editing cursor not advancing automatically after the first page of data
• Fixed Intel Hex and Motorola SREC files not being openable on macOS
• Fixed issues with Yara rules not being able to include other rules
• Fixed exceptions not displaying their error messages correctly
• Fixed logs always being saved to user folders, even on portable releases
• Fixed ImHex not being able to load properly in portable mode from a folder without permissions
• Fixed rare crash when loading providers
• Fixed importing of IPS and IPS32 patches being broken
• Fixed find view not correctly accepting hexadecimal values
• Fixed copying bytes from non-zero pages not working correctly
• Fixed rendering of custom encodings on non-zero pages
• Fixed CRC8 hashing algorithm displaying 16 bits instead of 8
• Fixed loading of Hex and SREC files with new lines in them
• Fixed last row in diff view always being displayed as zeros

Pattern Language

• Added various Visualizers to graphically visualize patterns and binary data
  • Currently available Visualizers are line_plot, scatter_plot, image, bitmap, disassembler, 3d, sound
• Added option to automatically expand or flatten the pattern data tree
• Added support for specifying local variables inside of structs
• Added ability to query various informations from the currently loaded provider
• Added const variables
• application/octet-stream is no longer considered a valid MIME type as it matches any unknown format
• Bitfield field bit addresses now always specify the offset from the start of the bitfield instead of from the start of the current byte
• Fixed editing of static array values
• Fixed various issues with recursion
• Fixed character patterns not always being formatted correctly
• Fixed crash when removing out variables
• Fixed string conversions not properly trimming values
• Added better array out of bounds checks for arrays
• Custom patterns are now always being passed as references implicitly
• Fixed only the last pragma of a specific type to be executed
• Added support for attributes with more than one parameter
• Allow this to be used in variable attributes to refer to the current variable
• Fixed printing of strings with null bytes in them
• Fixed pointer values being evaluated twice
• Added null keyword
• Fixed #endif directives requiring a space behind it to work
• Added format_read_entries, format_write_entries and transform_entries attributes
• Added highlight_hidden attribute to disable highlighting of the current pattern

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Actually fix startup issues

Improvements

• Made content store window resizable

Bug Fixes

• Actually fixed the last releases not starting at all anymore on macOS and Linux

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Added a "Save Project" menu entry to quickly save the current project without specifying a path
• Added byte Type distribution, digram and layered distribution plots to information view
• Added support for pasting byte strings with 0x prefixes or commas inbetween in the hex editor view. Thanks to @Diadlo for their initial implementation of this
• Added native theming support
  • New themes can now simply be placed in the %IMHEX%/themes folder for them to be loaded
• Added a Process Memory Provider on Windows
  • This provider can attach to any process and read its entire address space
  • It can also list all available sections and modules, and inject new DLLs

Improvements

• ImHex now automatically disables unicode support if the used GPU doesn't have enough VRAM to load all glyphs
• Debug builds now completely ignore plugins that are not in the plugins folder next to the executable
  • This is useful for debugging issues especially on Linux systems where ImHex has been installed using a package manager
• The localization system has been completely revamped and now uses simple json files
  • If you plan on adding support for a new language, there's a simple tool to help you with that now. Check out the HACKING.md file for more information
• Improved speed of entropy graph calculation
• Improved German translation. Thanks to @123456abcdef
• Improved Chinese (Simplified) translation. Thanks to @xtexChooser
• ImHex is now compiled using -Wpedantic to make sure we're using valid ISO C++

Bug Fixes

• Fixed building with LTO enabled
• Fixed patterns not appearing if pattern editor is not visible
• Fixed a crash when closing a section view while bytes were selected
• Fixed file provider adding additional zero bytes at the end of the file when saving
• Fixed issues where the hex editor view would sometimes jump back to the start of the file after searching
• Fixed searching for negative floating point values
• Fixed a crash when printing NULL bytes to the pattern console
• Fixed bookmarks displaying too many bytes in some cases
• Fixed saving of projects to paths containing non-ASCII characters
• Fixed various issues where iterators and containers got accessed incorrectly which could lead to issues and crashes
• Fixed template types being placable through the hex editor right click menu

Pattern Language

• Added the ability to modify values in the pattern data view
  • To go into editing mode, double click the value field of a pattern in the pattern data view
  • This works for all built-in types as well as enums by default
  • If you want to make your own types modifyable, use the [[format_write]] attribute
• Arrays are now displayed without extra indentation if there's less than 512 entries in it
• Added visualizers
  • Currently available are a basic line plot and an image visualizer
  • They can be used through the [[hex::visualizer]] attribute
• Added support for anonymous patterns
• Allow sections to be initialized using strings
• Added new std::mem::find_string_in_range function
• str variables can now be used in global scope
• Patterns views can now be placed from functions using the placement syntax
  • This doesn't add a new pattern to the pattern list but can be used to read/write bytes
• Added $[123] syntax to read a single byte from the main memory
• Added support for doc comments
  • These can be parsed and turned into markdown files using the plcli tool
• Allow attributes to directly use rvalues instead of being limited to string literals only
  • This allows you to for example have pattern names, colors and many other things depend on values in the type they are applied to
• Fixed passing local variables to functions
• Fixed array out of bounds checks applying to heap arrays
• File handles are now cleaned up completely after evaluaton finishes
• Fixed reading from bitfield fields that have been placed in a different section
• Fixed [[sealed]] attribute not working correctly with static arrays
• Improved pattern memory usage
• Fixed various issues with reference parameters
• Fixed bitfield fields not respecting endianess settings
• The [[format]] attribute has been deprecated in favour of the new [[format_read]] and [[format_write]] attributes
• Fixed some patterns having no name or a black color
• Fixed broken sign extension of 64 and 128 bit signed variables
• Fixed dynamic arrays always overriding colors
• Fixed indexing of strings and wide strings
• Prevented indexing of non-indexable types

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