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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Process memory provider search bar, startup fixes

Additions

• Added search bars to the process memory provider's process and module list

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the last release 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

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

Process memory provider, native theming, better information view

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

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

View providers, custom sections

Additions

• All tool windows can now be detached
• Added a RGBA8 image visualizer node to the data processor
• Added a uninstall target to the build script. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added CTRL + SHIFT + Z as a Undo shortcut. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added a menu to the Edit menu to automatically place a pattern type at the current selection
• New files are now created in memory and only turned into actual files when saved
• Added Paste all option to paste all bytes and resize the provider accordingly if it's too small
• Added Display Buffer, Display String, Arithmetic Average, Arithmetic Median and Buffer Patch data processor nodes
• Added a setting to disable loading of unicode characters. Thanks to @iTrooz
• ImHex now no longer makes any web requests unless specifically instructed to do so by the user. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Added a new View provider to open a view of section of another provider in a new tab

Improvements

• Non-existing folders are now displayed in red in the paths list. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Visualizer data processor nodes now only show a bigger view of their content if SHIFT is held down
• Greatly improved various error messages. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Improved precision of data passed between nodes in the data processor
  • Integers now use a i128 internally instead of a i64 and floats use a long double instead of a float
• Various pattern editor settings are now unique per provider
• Yara rule matching can now be interrupted
• Multiple Yara rules can now be applied at the same time
• Limited the maximum window name length to 32 characters
• Improved window scaling on macOS
• The pattern editor now always inserts spaces instead of tabs

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a crash when loading a new provider after evaluating pattern source code
• Fixed issues when modifying bytes on any pages but the first one
• Fixed editing not working on some Linux systems
• Fixed a crash when scrolling to the end of a file that's a multiple of 8 bytes long
• Fixed an issue that prevented pattern auto loading to work correctly on Windows. Thanks to @Asvel
• Fixed opening multiple files by dragging them onto the window

Pattern Language

• Added custom sections support
  • This feature allows you to dynamically create new memory regions, write data to them and then place patterns in them
  • This is useful for encrypted, compressed or otherwise transformed data
• Allow casting of strings to integers for magic numbers. For example u32("ABCD") turns into 0x44434241
• Fixed template types not being correctly cleared on reset
• Fixed creating global arrays of certain types
• Fixed a crash when validating infinitely recursive types
• Fixed issues when returning custom types from inside of a conditional
• Fixed printing of zero sized arrays
• Fixed [[hidden]] attributes not applying to top level patterns
• Evaluation time is now being displayed in the console once execution finished
• Removed some unneeded overhead
• Fixed format function memory leak
• Fixed sizeof(this) yielding incorrect results
• Fixed some statements not being executed at all in global scope
• Greatly improved the speed of std::hash::crc32
• Added std::core::is_valid_enum function to check if a enum has a valid representation

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ASCII row editing, Out variable access node

Additions

• Added support for editing the ASCII characters in the hex editor view
• Added new Float <-> Buffer conversion nodes to the data processor
• Added new Pattern Language Out variable access node to the pattern processor

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a occasional crash when opening providers
• Fixed 64 bit hex data visualizer only displaying 32 bit values
• Fixed some gaps in the hex editor cell background highlighting
• Fixed data inspector still displaying entries despite no bytes being selected
• Fixed invalid axis labels of the plots in the data analyzer view

Pattern Language

• Fixed an issue that caused attributes to not work correctly
• Fixed non-type template parameters in using declarations
• Fixed error in formatting function always causing a recursion error after a while

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Patterns that overlap with the selected bytes in the hex editor view are now highlighted in blue in the pattern data view
• It's now possible to add custom Data Inspector entries using the Pattern Language
  • To do this, create a new file in the %IMHEX_PATH%/scripts/inspectors folder with the .pat extension and enter you pattern code there
  • Each value that has been placed in memory using the @ operator will be added to the list
  • To get the current selected offset, use the $ operator
• Added numeric value searching to Find View
• Added unique selection and scrolling position support for each provider
  • This means when you scroll somewhere and select some data in a file, then switch to a different one and select some bytes there, the selection and scroll position in the original file will still remain where they were
• Added icons next to all textfields
  • These display what kind of input this textfield supports. For example: Text, Numbers, Mathematical expressions, Regex, Binary Pattern, etc.
• Modified bytes are now being highlighted in red in the hex editor view until they are saved
• Added Wide Strings (UTF-16) to the Data Inspector
• Added Half Floats to the Data Inspector
• Bookmarks can now be reordered by dragging them around
• The color picker in Bookmarks now has a bunch of predefined colors that can be selected by clicking on them
• Added a Jump to option to the Edit menu that allows scrolling directly to the currently selected region
• Added option to the settings menu to explicitly disable multi window support
  • This is useful for systems that either don't properly support Multi Window support or for people using Tiled Window Managers which get very confused by these extra windows.
  • If you can't open ImHex properly because of this, you can also manually set the hex.builtin.setting.interface.multi_windows setting in the config file to 0
• Added new options to the settings menu to adjust the padding between individual bytes and the padding between ASCII characters in the hex editor view

Improvements

• Reduced File / Provider loading time to basically zero
• Completely removed all lag that happened when typing in the pattern editor
  • This extends out to other things that were doing work asynchronously (Disassembler, Yara, Analyzer, etc.)
• Improved startup time of ImHex by about 50%
• Huge pattern arrays will now be split up into chunks of 512 entries in the Pattern Data View to make them easier to navigate.
• Properly display an error message when a Project failed to load
• Display an error message with potential fixes if the file dialog couldn't be opened on Linux. Thanks to @iTrooz
• The File Provider no longer keeps files open when it doesn't need to
  • This means other applications that support it, can now open files that are already open in ImHex
• Improved selection and drag scrolling in the Hex Editor View
• ASCII Table background colors are no longer hardcoded so it looks correct in Light Mode
• Limited the maximum number of characters that can be displayed in the tooltip that shows up when hovering over a pattern in the Hex editor view to prevent the tooltip from growing indefinitely
• Properly center current selection when jumping to it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Copy-As Python Array putting a semicolon at the end of the data
• Fixed issues when multiple web requests are running simultaneously
• Fixed issue where file inspector failed to read over page boundaries
• Fixed crash when the hex editor view data visualizer cell byte size was not evenly divisible by the column count
• Fixed many issues and crashes with the Calculator Tool
• Fixed various UTF-8 path bugs that prevented ImHex to work correctly on systems that have non-ASCII characters in their paths
• Fixed issue where the data processor nodes did not remember their position correctly when switching to a different provider
• Fixed potential crashes when trying to paste clipboard data when it's empty
• Fixed flickering of the Pattern Data View when executing a pattern
• Fixed opening files with unicode names through the command line
• Fixed a crash when closing ImHex after launching it through the terminal
• Fixed scrolling issues and improved the whole scrolling system overall
• Fixed pattern evaluator not exiting evaluating state correctly in some cases
• Fixed new lines in wide strings messing up the data inspector view layout
• Fixed highlighting of separator column in the hex editor view

Pattern Language

• Added Templates for structs, unions and using declarations
• Break and Continue can now be used outside of arrays to terminate stop evaluating the current type
• Return can now be used anywhere outside of functions to terminate execution of the entire pattern
• Added function to get current hex editor selection as an ImHex Extension
• Added function to demangle a string as an ImHex Extension
• Added support for global arrays
• Added non-type template parameters
• Allow custom types to be used inside of sizeof operators
  • This might yield incorrect results if the type's size is not static
• Added better error messages when parsing invalid struct, bitfield and if statements. Thanks to @Calcoph
• Fixed many many issues with templates
• Fixed using control flow statements inside of conditionals
• Fixed padding fields being displayed in bitfields
• Allow use of compound statements in global scope
• The ternary operator no longer enforces exactly the same types for the second and third operand
• Fixed highlighting of arrays of arrays
• Fixed bitfield order not resetting correctly
• Fixed indexing of strings
• Prevent the user from indexing other non-array types
• Fixed a crash when using break in an unsized array
• Fixed std::mem::read_signed yielding invalid values
• Fixed formatting of signed hex values
• Fixed accessing of local arrays
• Fixed string pattern not correctly reading all bytes
• Fixed a few out of bounds indexing errors in the Preprocessor
• Fixed reading from local float variables
• Fixed a crash when passing invalid values to the std::time library
• Fixed issue where while-sized static arrays could expand indefinitely beyond the end of the data
• Fixed crash with empty dynamic arrays

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Hex editor selection rendering fix, Addressof/Sizeof error message fix

Improvements

• Many CI improvements once again. Thanks a lot to @iTrooz

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rendering of selection in Hex Editor view

Pattern Language

• Fixed an incorrect error message with addressof and sizeof operators

Previous Changelog

Additions

• Patterns that overlap with the selected bytes in the hex editor view are now highlighted in blue in the pattern data view
• It's now possible to add custom Data Inspector entries using the Pattern Language
  • To do this, create a new file in the %IMHEX_PATH%/scripts/inspectors folder with the .pat extension and enter you pattern code there
  • Each value that has been placed in memory using the @ operator will be added to the list
  • To get the current selected offset, use the $ operator
• Added numeric value searching to Find View
• Added unique selection and scrolling position support for each provider
  • This means when you scroll somewhere and select some data in a file, then switch to a different one and select some bytes there, the selection and scroll position in the original file will still remain where they were
• Added icons next to all textfields
  • These display what kind of input this textfield supports. For example: Text, Numbers, Mathematical expressions, Regex, Binary Pattern, etc.
• Modified bytes are now being highlighted in red in the hex editor view until they are saved
• Added Wide Strings (UTF-16) to the Data Inspector
• Added Half Floats to the Data Inspector
• Bookmarks can now be reordered by dragging them around
• The color picker in Bookmarks now has a bunch of predefined colors that can be selected by clicking on them
• Added a Jump to option to the Edit menu that allows scrolling directly to the currently selected region
• Added option to the settings menu to explicitly disable multi window support
  • This is useful for systems that either don't properly support Multi Window support or for people using Tiled Window Managers which get very confused by these extra windows.
  • If you can't open ImHex properly because of this, you can also manually set the hex.builtin.setting.interface.multi_windows setting in the config file to 0
• Added new options to the settings menu to adjust the padding between individual bytes and the padding between ASCII characters in the hex editor view

Improvements

• Reduced File / Provider loading time to basically zero
• Completely removed all lag that happened when typing in the pattern editor
  • This extends out to other things that were doing work asynchronously (Disassembler, Yara, Analyzer, etc.)
• Improved startup time of ImHex by about 50%
• Huge pattern arrays will now be split up into chunks of 512 entries in the Pattern Data View to make them easier to navigate.
• Properly display an error message when a Project failed to load
• Display an error message with potential fixes if the file dialog couldn't be opened on Linux. Thanks to @iTrooz
• The File Provider no longer keeps files open when it doesn't need to
  • This means other applications that support it, can now open files that are already open in ImHex
• Improved selection and drag scrolling in the Hex Editor View
• ASCII Table background colors are no longer hardcoded so it looks correct in Light Mode
• Limited the maximum number of characters that can be displayed in the tooltip that shows up when hovering over a pattern in the Hex editor view to prevent the tooltip from growing indefinitely
• Properly center current selection when jumping to it

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Copy-As Python Array putting a semicolon at the end of the data
• Fixed issues when multiple web requests are running simultaneously
• Fixed issue where file inspector failed to read over page boundaries
• Fixed crash when the hex editor view data visualizer cell byte size was not evenly divisible by the column count
• Fixed many issues and crashes with the Calculator Tool
• Fixed various UTF-8 path bugs that prevented ImHex to work correctly on systems that have non-ASCII characters in their paths
• Fixed issue where the data processor nodes did not remember their position correctly when switching to a different provider
• Fixed potential crashes when trying to paste clipboard data when it's empty
• Fixed flickering of the Pattern Data View when executing a pattern
• Fixed opening files with unicode names through the command line
• Fixed a crash when closing ImHex after launching it through the terminal
• Fixed scrolling issues and improved the whole scrolling system overall
• Fixed pattern evaluator not exiting evaluating state correctly in some cases
• Fixed new lines in wide strings messing up the data inspector view layout
• Fixed highlighting of separator column in the hex editor view

Pattern Language

• Added Templates for structs, unions and using declarations
• Break and Continue can now be used outside of arrays to terminate stop evaluating the current type
• Return can now be used anywhere outside of functions to terminate execution of the entire pattern
• Added function to get current hex editor selection as an ImHex Extension
• Added function to demangle a string as an ImHex Extension
• Added support for global arrays
• Added non-type template parameters
• Allow custom types to be used inside of sizeof operators
  • This might yield incorrect results if the type's size is not static
• Added better error messages when parsing invalid struct, bitfield and if statements. Thanks to @Calcoph
• Fixed many many issues with templates
• Fixed using control flow statements inside of conditionals
• Fixed padding fields being displayed in bitfields
• Allow use of compound statements in global scope
• The ternary operator no longer enforces exactly the same types for the second and third operand
• Fixed highlighting of arrays of arrays
• Fixed bitfield order not resetting correctly
• Fixed indexing of strings
• Prevent the user from indexing other non-array types
• Fixed a crash when using break in an unsized array
• Fixed std::mem::read_signed yielding invalid values
• Fixed formatting of signed hex values
• Fixed accessing of local arrays
• Fixed string pattern not correctly reading all bytes
• Fixed a few out of bounds indexing errors in the Preprocessor
• Fixed reading from local float variables
• Fixed a crash when passing invalid values to the std::time library
• Fixed issue where while-sized static arrays could expand indefinitely beyond the end of the data
• Fixed crash with empty dynamic arrays

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