Bug fixes

Changelog

Additions

• Added filter option to bookmarks view

Improvements

• Downloaded content store items no longer get placed in the /tmp directory when using the AppImage or Flatpak release. Thanks to @catsout
• Improved rendering of bitfield entries in the pattern data view. Thanks to @Diadlo

Bug Fixes

• Fixed various hex editor highlighting, tooltips and selection issues
• Fixed duplicate pattern data view entries when sorting the list
• Fixed various issues with multi-byte visualizers in the hex editor view
• Fixed various base address related issues
• Fixed Edit -> Create Bookmark menu item not working correctly
• Fixed search not working as expected

Pattern Language

• Bitwise operators no longer act like boolean operators
• Fixed passing dynamically sized types to functions

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New builtin types, pointers to arrays and many bug fixes

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Improvements

• Upgraded codebase to C++23
• Possibly added support for Windows 7 (untested)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed advanced decoding hex editor row not being rendered correctly
• Fixed editing floats, doubles and strings in the data inspector
• Fixed opening files with spaces in their name on Linux not working correctly
• Fixed crash when closing the file picker without choosing a file
• Fixed duplicate file chooser popup entries not being selectable
• Fixed CTRL + O only working when the hex editor view is selected
• Fixed user folders not loading correctly on startup
• Fixed crash when searching for an empty string
• Fixed crash on exit

Pattern Language

• Added u24, u48. u96, s24, s48 and s96 builtin types
• Added support for pointers to arrays. Thanks a lot to @PredatorCZ
• Added support for pointers with signed values. Thanks a lot to @PredatorCZ
• Greatly improved token creation and consuming. Refactored Lexer and Parser
• Fixed invalid placement syntax parsing
• Improved error message when a invalid token was encountered
• Improved querying patterns by address
• Fixed name of returned static array entry patterns
• Fixed crash when querying value of a zero-length string
• Fixed namespace resolution issues
• Fixed overriding the color of static arrays. Thanks to @PredatorCZ
• Fixed passing placed variables to functions
• Fixed In/Out variables not working correctly. Thanks to @PredatorCZ
• Removed empty string patterns from the pattern data view

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More unicode fixes

Changelog

Heyo @shutingrz :)

Additions

• Added a backdrop image when no views are open

Improvements

• Automatically restore default layout when a file is opened but no views are open
• Improved stuttering when resizing or minimizing/maximizing the window
• Improved the Full Sources tar size. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Updated various dependencies

Bug Fixes

• Fixed opening files with spaces in their name on Linux
• Fixed various more Unicode issues

Pattern Language

• Custom type formatting
  • Passing custom types to e.g std::print now prints e.g struct Test { 12, 34, 56 } for a Struct named Test with 3 variables
• Fixed a crash when using provider operators

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Unicode systems support, custom local variables and http proxies

Changelog

Additions

• Added ability to remove bytes from a file. Thanks to @Diadlo
• Added a macOS styled icon to the macOS build and updated the icon on other platforms Huge thanks to @zaafonin
• Added back missing hex editor selection byte count value to the hex editor view footer
• Added support for HTTP and SOCKS5 Proxies. Thanks a lot to @shirok1

Improvements

• Fixed many issues with the macOS .dmg file, and the Linux AppImage and Flatpak. Massive thanks to @iTrooz
• Massive CI Improvements Huge thanks to @iTrooz
  • This includes much improved build times, ArchLinux support, automatic release uploading and many other improvements
• Switched over to GCC on macOS
  • This allows for more cutting edge C++ features to be used in the future
• Lots of Unicode related crashes and fixes
  • Paths are now consistently handled correctly on all platforms
  • ImHex now works correctly when launched from a location with non-ASCII characters in its path or on systems with a user account name with unicode characters in it
• Massively improved pattern highlighting performance
  • Search algorithm is now O(log2(N)) instead of O(N)
• Greatly improved the performance of static arrays in the pattern data view
• Improved the scrolling behaviour in the hex editor view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed byte editing not working correctly in the hex editor view
• Fixed AppImage crashing when opening the file chooser
• Fixed crash when parsing invalid wide strings
• Fixed Resize and Insert bytes popup not working correctly
• Fixed fallback language being accidentally set to Portuguese. Thanks to @LFriede
• Fixed misaligned hex editor selection hightlighting in very big files
• Fixed double clicking on the "... (Double-click to see more items)" item in arrays in the pattern data view. Thanks to @Diadlo
• Fixed a few hex editor highlighting crashes
• Fixed hash function names not being localized
• Fixed crash when undocking the hex editor view
• Fixed various localization issues
• Fixed hex editor selection moving with SHIFT + Arrow Keys not working as expected
• Fixed a crash when copying text to the clipboard on non-english locales
• Fixed system theme detection issues on all OSes
• Fixed In/Out variables not being evaluated correctly when loading a pattern through the context menu

Pattern Language

• Added support for using custom types as local variables
  • This means you can now define structs, unions or bitfields and use and assign values to them inside of functions
• Fixed endian inversion when passing variables to functions in big-endian mode
• Fixed In/Out variables not working correctly when using any pre-processor directives

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Reworked hash view, Brazilian Portuguese translation

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Additions

• Added Brazilian Portuguese translation. Huge thanks to @dgsmiley18
• Added IEEE 754 floating point number experimenting tool
• Complete rewrote the Hash view
  • It now supports displaying multiple different Hash types at the same time
  • Configured hashes now also appear in the hex editor when selecting a region, hovering the cursor over it and holding down SHIFT
• Added tooltip to all Visualizer data processor nodes that display the visualization a lot bigger

Improvements

• Improved contrast of the pattern language error popup text color in light mode

Bug Fixes

• Fixed editing values in the hex editor
• Fixed another scroll issue in the hex editor
• Fixed pasting bytes in the hex editor view
• Fixed bookmarks automatically collapsing when editing their name
• Fixed a crash when the OS didn't configure monitors correctly
  • This mainly happens when using Windows Remote Desktop

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Rewrite the entire Hex Editor View
  • The Editor now supports displaying data in various different ways. For example it can combine 4 bytes into one cell and display it as floating point number, or 2 bytes into a signed integer
  • Added setting to change color and transparency of selection
  • Added much better tooltips for Patterns and Bookmarks
    • Hold SHIFT for more information
  • Improved popups for find, goto, base address setting and byte insertion
  • Greatly improved search speed and efficiency
  • Fixed hex view not scrolling when moving the cursor off screen
  • Fixed many inconsistencies
• Added support for custom languages for the Wikipedia terms searcher. Thanks to @xtexChooser
• Added bit invert option to data inspector
• Added bool, DOS Date and DOS Time decoder to data inspector

Pattern Language

• Added addressof($) to get the data base address and sizeof($) to get the data size
• Make bitfields be more on-par with structs and allow conditionals to be used in there
• Added support for while-sized paddings
• Fixed pattern language errors not being displayed in the console correctly
• Fixed MIME pragma not working correctly
• Fixed including files that include other files themselves

Improvements

• Added ImHex to FlatHub. Thanks a lot to @Mailaender
• Fixed various issues with the AppImage. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
  • Opening the file browser still crashes the AppImage, drag-n-drop your files onto ImHex to open them

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Bug fixes

Changelog

Bug fixes

• Fixed bookmark menu entry causing wrong region to be marked
• Fixed Hex Editor selection scrolling being broken
• Fixed parsing of hex escaped character literals in the pattern language
• Fixed crash on exit
• Fixed error again that broke building on GCC 12.1.0 (as used on Arch Linux)

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Rewrite the entire Hex Editor View
  • The Editor now supports displaying data in various different ways. For example it can combine 4 bytes into one cell and display it as floating point number, or 2 bytes into a signed integer
  • Added setting to change color and transparency of selection
  • Added much better tooltips for Patterns and Bookmarks
    • Hold SHIFT for more information
  • Improved popups for find, goto, base address setting and byte insertion
  • Greatly improved search speed and efficiency
  • Fixed hex view not scrolling when moving the cursor off screen
  • Fixed many inconsistencies
• Added support for custom languages for the Wikipedia terms searcher. Thanks to @xtexChooser
• Added bit invert option to data inspector
• Added bool, DOS Date and DOS Time decoder to data inspector

Pattern Language

• Added addressof($) to get the data base address and sizeof($) to get the data size
• Make bitfields be more on-par with structs and allow conditionals to be used in there
• Added support for while-sized paddings
• Fixed pattern language errors not being displayed in the console correctly
• Fixed MIME pragma not working correctly
• Fixed including files that include other files themselves

Improvements

• Added ImHex to FlatHub. Thanks a lot to @Mailaender
• Fixed various issues with the AppImage. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
  • Opening the file browser still crashes the AppImage, drag-n-drop your files onto ImHex to open them

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Hex editor view rewrite, flathub release

Changelog

Additions

• Rewrite the entire Hex Editor View
  • The Editor now supports displaying data in various different ways. For example it can combine 4 bytes into one cell and display it as floating point number, or 2 bytes into a signed integer
  • Added setting to change color and transparency of selection
  • Added much better tooltips for Patterns and Bookmarks
    • Hold SHIFT for more information
  • Improved popups for find, goto, base address setting and byte insertion
  • Greatly improved search speed and efficiency
  • Fixed hex view not scrolling when moving the cursor off screen
  • Fixed many inconsistencies
• Added support for custom languages for the Wikipedia terms searcher. Thanks to @xtexChooser
• Added bit invert option to data inspector
• Added bool, DOS Date and DOS Time decoder to data inspector

Pattern Language

• Added addressof($) to get the data base address and sizeof($) to get the data size
• Make bitfields be more on-par with structs and allow conditionals to be used in there
• Added support for while-sized paddings
• Fixed pattern language errors not being displayed in the console correctly
• Fixed MIME pragma not working correctly
• Fixed including files that include other files themselves

Improvements

• Added ImHex to FlatHub. Thanks a lot to @Mailaender
• Fixed various issues with the AppImage. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz
  • Opening the file browser still crashes the AppImage, drag-n-drop your files onto ImHex to open them

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Yara console module, type forward declarations, default parameters and tons of bug fixes

Changelog

Additions

• Added support for the new Yara console module

Pattern Language

• The Pattern Language has been separated from ImHex and was moved to its own repository
  • This was in part made possible by @Diadlo's separation of the pattern rendering code from the rest of the runtime
  • A separate repository also now allows other people to include the Pattern Language in their own applications
• Types can now be forward declared
• Functions can now have default parameters
• Bitfield fields are now selectable
• Comments behind preprocessor defines are now correctly handled
• Fixed recursive types not working correctly
• Fixed caching for static array values
• Fixed indentation for inlined variables
• Fixed highlight colors of arrays not matching color shown in pattern data view
• Fixed struct members that overlap with [[no_unique_address]] members not being highlighted
• Fixed pointer patterns causing crashes when they are rendered

Improvements

• Make ImHex build with -Wall -Wextra -Werror on all platforms
• Fixed tons of clang-tidy warnings
• Improved / fixed the AppImage build
• Recently opened file entries are now being removed if the file doesn't exist anymore
• Disabled various menu items when no provider is loaded
• Multi-viewport support has been enabled on Linux again, providing ImHex is running on a X11 system
  • Multi-viewport support is still very buggy on Wayland
• Improved the about page
• Pattern values are now being cached. Thanks to @Diadlo
• Mathematical expressions can now be used in the hex editor goto function
• Improved look and feel of many hexadecimal input fields
• Improved string search filtering
• Moved bookmark delete button to their header
• Information view plots now don't capture scroll anymore and fit better into the rest of the interface
• Undo and Redo buttons are only available now if that action is actually available
• Data inspector endian and format radio boxes are now sliders

Bug Fixes

• Fixed crash when setting a custom font and that file can't be found
• Fixed various bugs and crashes related to filesystem operations
• Fixed various bugs with the Math Evaluator engine
• Fixed highlighting not properly being cleared when switching to a different provider
• Prevent imgui.ini from being created
• Deferred calls are now handled in a thread-safe manner
• Fixed interface layout not being saved properly in some cases
• Fixed theme not changing properly on startup. Thanks to @PredatorCZ
• Fixed issues where bookmarks not always created highlights correctly
• Fixed displaying of file stat times in information view
• Fixed crash on linux when opened file is being modified. Thanks to @PredatorCZ

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Windows defender issues and bug fixes

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Improvements

• Yara rules are no longer bundled with ImHex directly anymore.
  • Having them bundled made a bunch of different anti virus tools very sad so they once again need to be downloaded manually from the content store
• Patterns that use types which have been defined through a using statement now properly display their new type name in the pattern data view

Bug Fixes

• Fixed searching not working at all
• Fixed many text boxes not being writable at all

Pattern Language

• Fixed crash when using control flow statements without a value
• Fixed control flow statements not working correctly inside of custom types
• Fixed crash when using attributes
• Fixed major memory leak when using the [[format]] attribute
• Fixed crash when passing a value as a auto parameter to a function

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Pattern language offset and other crash fixes

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Addition

• Added alpha preview to the color picker tool

Improvements

• Improved display of the base address setter popup
• Make std::mem::find_sequence_in_range return -1 when the value couldn't be found

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug where the current offset in the pattern runtime was getting messed up when calling a function
• Fixed a crash when entering too much text in various input text boxes
• Fixed a crash when searching for empty strings or bytes

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