Improvements

• The Windows installers are now signed
  • Huge thanks to SignPath for their help and sponsoring the certificate
• The icons look slightly less blurry on low-resolution screens now
• There's no longer any gaps in the selection of hex editor cells now with certain scaling factors
• There's now better error messages when opening a data source failed. No more "Unspecified Error"
• Opening a file that has already been opened now switches to its existing tab instead of just displaying an error
• The auto-updater on macOS now automatically unpacks the new version instead of just opening the dmg

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the Windows installer not correctly replacing all files
• Fixed dependencies of the deb packages
• The Extended ASCII display is no longer active by default now
  • If you upgraded to v1.38.0 before, you can disable it now by clicking on the Paragraph icon in the hex editor footer. If you didn't upgrade to that version, it will now be disabled by default
• Fixed a bunch of issues with the updater that caused it to not work correctly, mainly on Windows
• Fixed various issues with the pattern editor. Thanks to @paxcut
• Fixed editing values in the data inspector not correctly working
• Fixed a crash when clicking Cancel while opening a remote SSH File
• Fixed a off-by-one in the process memory data source that would cause the first byte of a region to not display correctly
• Fixed a crash when using the @ command palette command
• Fixed sorting in the find view table being inverted
• Fixed pattern files saved by the pattern editor not getting truncated on disk correctly
• Fixed a crash when repeatedly opening files by drag-n-dropping them onto the ImHex Window

Previous Version

Features

• Added multiple new Data Sources
  • A UDP Provider that can display UDP packets received on a specified port
  • A SSH Provider that can connect to remote machines over SSH and read files from there using SSH or SFTP
    • This is pretty cool as it allows live-inspection of the RAM of remote machines over the network by opening /dev/mem
• Tons of improvements to the Pattern Editor. Huge thanks to @paxcut
  • The pattern editor now supports semantic syntax highlighting for the PatternLanguage!
  • Matching brackets are now highlighted when the cursor is next to one
  • Patterns can now be opened in an external Editor and ImHex will update the pattern live when the file changes
  • Parenthesis and quotes are now auto-closed when typing them
  • Breakpoints in the pattern editor can now be toggled by clicking on the line numbers instead.
  • Fixed various scrolling and scrollbar issues
• New and updated Languages!
  • Added a French translation. Thanks a lot to @antigeky
  • Added a Polish translation. Thanks a lot to @Shadow775711
  • Added a Ukrainian translation. Thanks a lot to @RutarAndriy
  • Updated the Simplified Chinese translation. Thanks to @only9464
  • It's possible now to automatically chose the current system language with a fallback to English if the language is not available
• Added mutliple new data inspector rows
  • Added a "Custom Encoding String" row, allowing quick decoding of selections using custom character encodings
  • Added a fp24 (24-bit floating point) data inspector row
  • Added a bfloat data inspector row
  • Added a configurable fixed-point data inspector row
• Added a new Save Editor Mode and Simplified Pattern Editor
  • Marking Patterns with [[hex::editor_export]] will now make them show up in a new tab in the Pattern Data View
    • This allows for displaying only a limited number of fields in a simplified manner and letting you edit them
  • Additionally, this allows you to create Game Save File Editors using ImHex's Pattern Language!
    • By writing a pattern with these attributes, you can load the pattern using the new imhex --save-editor <pattern_file> option to show only a simplified save editor UI
    • This can also be done using the Web Version of ImHex by appending ?save-editor=<gist_id> to the URL where <gist_id> is the ID of a GitHub Gist containing the pattern file
• Added a "Go To" command to the command palette for quickly jumping to specific offsets
• Added new "Go To First/Last Element" buttons to the data inspector
• Added option to show extended/unprintable ASCII characters in the Hex Editor view
• Vastly improved the auto updater
  • Added support for updating nightly builds
  • Added support for switching between stable and nightly channels
• Added command palette option to open / focus a specific view
• Added option to skip over large chunks of bytes with the same value
• Added all tools to the command palette for quick access
• Added a Markdown renderer to ImHex
  • The Changelog in the About page now uses this to render the changelog nicely
  • Bookmark comments can now also use Markdown formatting
• Added a new File Information command line option that can show various information about a file without opening it
  • This can be used by running imhex --file-info <file_path>
  • If this file is supported by a pattern, it will also be loaded and additional information can be displayed
    • This works by it calling the pattern's get_data_description function if it exists which may then return any markdown text to be displayed
    • This information will also be displayed in the Data Information view
• Added a "Decode as Encoding" option to the right-click menu in the Hex Editor view for quickly decoding selected bytes using a specific character encoding
• It's now possible to jump to Yara matches in the Hex Editor by clicking on them
• Added a region sidebar list to the Intel Hex and Motorola SREC providers. Thanks to @sonorousfreq
• Added keyboard shortcuts to jump to next/previous difference in the Diff View. Thanks to @Zman350x
• There's now a interactive help button in the title bar that can be clicked to get information about specific elements in the UI
• Added a RGBA8 and RGB565 minimap visualizer
• Added option to the Minimap to shade cells based on the magnitude of the byte values
• Added a Copy and Edit option to the right click menu of patterns in the Pattern Data View
• Replaced the useless Constants View with a new Constants Search option in the Find View
  • This lets you search for a predefined list of common constants such as CRC polynomials
  • These can also be extended by simple constant json files

Improvements

• Startup times have been significantly improved
  • On my machine, ImHex now starts up in ~60ms instead of taking multiple seconds
  • ImHex now also uses significantly less RAM. Idle it uses around 60MB now instead of over 200MB before
• Pretty much everything has a nice new icon now
• ImHex now builds and runs on 32-bit Windows systems
  • No official 32-bit builds will be provided, but you can build ImHex from source for 32-bit Windows now if needed using MSVC
• Decluttered and modernized many parts of the UI
• The main menu items now update automatically depending on what view is currently focused
  • This makes it much easier to figure out which option affects what, especially for things like "Open" which can apply to multiple views
• Added Subpixel Font Antialiasing. Huge thanks to @paxcut
  • This makes all text look significantly nicer, especially on lower resolution screens
• Fonts can now be more freely chosen using a new Font File picker that updates immediately
  • Font names in the picker are now also shown in their respective font
• Frame Rate limiting is now much more precise and ImHex will wake up from sleep less often
  • ImHex will now also not limit the frame rate as much if there's any animations playing to allow for a smoother feel
• Updated all dependencies to their latest versions
• The Import Pattern popup now shows up much quicker. Thanks to @shewitt-au
• Improved handling of cached providers such as the GDB provider to provide more up-to-date data and avoid hangs
• The GDB provider now works without the server supporting the NoAckMode
  • This allows ImHex to be used for example to connect to a Nintendo Switch running Atmosphere
• Modernized the TTY Console view with a new layout and a nice diagram showing what the different options affect
• Instead of just minimizing the window when clicking the close button on macOS, it will now close the currently opened providers and only when clicked again on the welcome screen it will fully exit ImHex
• Individual plugins may now be disabled from the Plugins settings page
• ImHex now no longer uses the name "Providers" but instead uses "Data Sources" to better reflect what they do
• Most of the Hex Editor settings are now saved
• Included a launcher script with most builds that can be added to the PATH to easily launch ImHex from the command line
• Integer Literals may now be used in binary patterns. For example 12 34 ?? u32le(123)
• Hashes are now being calculated in a background thread as to not freeze up the UI anymore

Bug Fixes

• Certain achievements now no longer trigger every time ImHex is started
• Fixed a crash when using the Edit -> Disassemble Selection option before the Disassembly view has been opened
• Undo now works for importing patterns in the pattern editor
• Fixed many crashes related to the pattern data view
  • Things like sorting or filtering should now work much more reliably
• Fixed the --reset-settings command line option not working
• Fixed searching for negative numbers in the find view not working correctly
• Fixed some crashes on Wayland when exiting ImHex
• Empty Intel Hex and Motorola SRec files no longer appear as being one byte long
• Fixed issues when reordering toolbar items
• Fixed the Open File in Explorer option not working correctly on Windows
• Fixed Auto Backups not being properly created after the first time. Thanks to @paxcut
• If a crash happens in a background thread, ImHex is now able to properly handle the crash instead of just silently exiting

Artifacts

• Added new ARM64 builds for Windows and Linux
• Added new Snap packages for Linux
• Added new Flatpak packages for Linux
• Added a Fedora 43 rpm package
• Added a Ubuntu 24.04 deb package

Pattern Language

• Templates are now much better supported. Huge thanks to @AkiSakurai
  • They can now be nested properly
  • Their scoping now works much more sensibly
    • If you used Templates before, you might need to adjust your patterns. The scope of parameters passed to templates is now that of the template instantiation, not where the variable is actually used. So it's no longer necessary to use parent
• sizeof(SomeType) now works when there's pointers involved
• Many functions that previously only worked with the main section are now section-aware
• Conditionals now support short-circuit evaluation
• Fixed many fixes that caused crashes when errors happened in attributes
• Pattern post-processing finishes now much much quicker
• Parsing of floating point literals is now no longer locale dependent
• Fixed patterns passed to functions by references having their name changed unexpectedly

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