Improvements

ImHex properly enters low power mode on Linux again now
Unifont characters are now being loaded at their native size to make them crisp like the Western characters
The splash screen is not being scaled weirdly anymore now
Added a hint when the advanced data information section didn't yield any result

Bug Fixes

Fixed linking to libyara. This should resolve issues with e.g the AUR version not starting anymore
Fixed issues with the auto updater on Windows
Fixed view providers not being saved to project files correctly
Fixed highlighting not updating correctly when changing Bookmark regions
Fixed crash upload setting not being disabled correctly when choosing "Deny" in the initial popup
Fixed custom base address issues with the data inspector and copy as array options
Fixed advanced data information not showing up correctly
Fixed selection being removed sometimes when right clicking it
Fixed infinite loop when exporting a selection to a file
Fixed control characters ending up in log files
Fixed a crash when opening an unopenable file

Pattern Language

Fixed various issues with the virtual file system
Fixed data decompression functions not extracting the entire data

Previous Changelog

Additions

All main menu entries now have pretty icons
Added Myers' diffing algorithm to the diff view
- This algorithm can display insertions and removals as well as modifications
- Huge thanks to the maintainer of Malcat!
Added option to customize toolbar icons
Added a much improved Out of the Box experience when first starting up ImHex
Added many new hash algorithms
- This includes basic sum checksums, Snefru, Haval, various SHA versions, Keccak, RIPEMD, many CRC presets and many more
Greatly improved the data information view
- Sections can now be switched on and off
- Magic information now includes more than one entry if there's multiple concatenated files
- The Digram and Layered distribution graphs now perform a lot better
- There's now built-in yara rules that are being run on files to detect compilers, programming languages and more for executables
Greatly improved the pattern editor
- Thanks a lot to @paxcut
- This adds support for find and replace, better highlighting and many other smaller things
Added Mini Map to the Hex Editor
- This can be enabled by clicking on the map icon in the hex editor footer
- There's also config options when right clicking that icon
Added Edit -> Jump to -> Pattern option to jump directly from hex editor highlights to patterns
- Clicking on patterns in the pattern data view also jumps to their definition in the pattern editor now
Added a font picker to the settings
Added option to highlight parent pattern regions in the hex editor when hovering over them
Added support for searching for other string encodings and endianess. Thanks a lot to @PerikiyoXD
Added a pretty drag-n-drop overlay when dragging files onto ImHex
Added support for virtual file systems through the pattern language
Added option to keep ImHex always on top of other windows
Added option to use ImHex in fullscreen mode
Added support for switching to other providers through the command palette
Added a setting to always show all provider tabs, even if there's only one
Added option to export a selection to a file
Added a comments column to the pattern data view. It can be enabled by right clicking on the table header and selecting it there
Added option to turn off borderless window mode
Added option to export the results of the find view to a file
Added option to disable command palette button in header
Added a search bar to the file chooser popup
Added support for opening multiple files at once
Added support for macOS's Right click -> Open with option

Improvements

ImHex now uses Atomic File I/O instead of mapping files into memory
- This solves various issues where certain files couldn't be opened, files on network drives not working well and more
macOS M1 build now only requires macOS 12.1 instead of 14.0 to run
Bookmark moving now uses ImGui's native drag n drop feature
Syncing pattern language source code between providers should work better now
Custom encodings that don't have multi-byte values now display immediately when selected
The macOS build now uses a custom titlebar
ImHex windows are now being unfocused properly if the main window loses focus
- No more blinking cursors when ImHex is in the background!
Overwriting individual characters in the edit mode of the hex editor now works much better
Copy-Paste now works correctly in the Web version of ImHex. Thanks a lot to @exsilium
The find popup now remembers its content
The crash restore popup doesn't show anymore now if there's nothing to restore
Opening the same file multiple times is no longer possible now

Bug Fixes

Fixed signing issues with macOS builds
Fixed CTRL + S not removing red highlights of bytes
Fixed address bound checks in Edit -> Jump to option
Fixed menu bar collapsing into hamburger menu even if there's enough space
Fixed RGBA8 data processor node not setting output buffer correctly
Fixed provider information in information view always showing infos about the current provider instead of about the analyzed provider
Fixed issues when using certain window management tools on Windows
Fixed crashes when launching ImHex with file arguments
Fixed crash when trying to use too many hex editor rows
Fixed native theme detection of Linux. Thanks to @iTrooz
Fixed issues where workspaces are not correctly saved sometimes
Fixed issues where default magic database wasn't being bundled correctly
Fixed crashes when loading very old settings files
Fixed data inspector not updating correctly when the underlying data changed
Fixed a crash when specifying invalid hash parameters in the hashing view
Fixed additional folder paths not being loaded from the config file correctly
Fixed data inspector showing two negative signs sometimes
Fixed various issues with non-zero base addresses

Pattern Language

Huge refactor of the Preprocessor, Lexer and Parser
- Massive thanks to @jumanji144
- Compile errors are a lot more helpful now and include more context information
Added support for import statements
- Massive thanks to @jumanji144
Added stacktrace to runtime errors
Patterns can now be placed inside of custom sections from within other types
Pattern formatters now properly respect a patterns visibility
- This means hidden patterns don't end up in exported json, yaml or html files anymore
Fixed writing to big endian bitfield entries
Changing pattern setting now re-evaluates the code if auto evaluation is enabled