ImHex v1.29 releases: Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers

ImHex

A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers, and people that value their eyesight when working at 3 AM.

Features

• Featureful hex view
  • Byte patching
  • Patch management
  • Copy bytes as feature
    • Bytes
    • Hex string
    • C, C++, C#, Rust, Python, Java & JavaScript array
    • ASCII-Art hex view
    • HTML self-contained div
  • String and hex search
  • Colorful highlighting
  • Goto from start, end, and current cursor position
• Custom C++-like pattern language for parsing highlighting a file’s content
  • Automatic loading based on MIME-type
  • arrays, pointers, structs, unions, enums, bitfields, using declarations, litte and big-endian support
  • Useful error messages, syntax highlighting, and error marking
• Data importing
  • Base64 files
  • IPS and IPS32 patches
• Data exporting
  • IPS and IPS32 patches
• Data Exporting
• Data inspector allowing interpretation of data as many different types (little and big-endian)
• Huge file support with fast and efficient loading
• Strings search
  • Copying of strings
  • Copying of detangled strings
• File hashing support
  • CRC16 and CRC32 with custom initial values and polynomials
  • MD4, MD5
  • SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
• Disassembler supporting many different architectures
  • ARM32 (ARM, Thumb, Cortex-M, aarch32)
  • ARM64
  • MIPS (MIPS32, MIPS64, MIPS32R6, Micro)
  • x86 (16 bit, 32 bit, 64 bit)
  • PowerPC (32 bit, 64 bit)
  • Sparc
  • SystemZ
  • XCore
  • M68K
  • TMS320C64X
  • M680X
  • Ethereum
• Bookmarks
  • Region highlighting
  • Comments
• Data Analyzer
  • File magic-based file parser and MIME type database
  • Byte distribution graph
  • Entropy graph
  • Highest and avarage entropy
  • Encrypted / Compressed file detection
• Helpful tools
  • Itanium and MSVC demangler
  • ASCII table
  • Regex replacer
  • Mathematical expression evaluator (Calculator)
  • Hexadecimal Color picker
• Built-in cheat sheet for pattern language and Math evaluator
• Doesn’t burn out your retinas when used in late-night sessions

Changelog v1.29

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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