0.62.1

This release fixes the x86 Windows build so that it works on pre-Nehalem/Bulldozer (circa 2008) CPUs.

For x64 Windows and any other operating systems, 0.62.0 is still the latest release.

0.62.0

This release includes changes and new features to assist editing of sub-byte-width values and non-byte-aligned values in files:

• Add bit array data type (#167).
• Allow selecting and setting comments/highlights/types on bit-sized/aligned quantities, not just byte-aligned (#155).
• Allow defining arbitrary integer types, up to 64 bits wide (#215).
• Allow navigating hex data by nibbles rather than bytes (#58).

There are also improvements to the highlighting feature, and general usability improvements:

• Allow colouring data by byte value (#223).
• Allow changing/defining custom highlight colours and assigning labels to them (#227).
• Use dimmer highlight colours for dark colour schemes (#227).
• Save highlight colours/labels per-file (#60).
• Allow changing keyboard shortcuts (#226).
• Add Shift+Enter shortcut for "OK" in the comment dialog (#226).
• Display offset in both decimal and hexadecimal in status bar (#228).
• Fix handling of relative paths specified on the command line when opening in an existing instance (#237).

On the build/pipeline side, I've switched the toolchain used for the 32-bit Windows version (rehex-0.62.0-win-x86.zip) to one that can run on earlier versions of Windows (XP and above).

0.61.1

This release fixes data being displayed from the wrong point in the file when "Collapse matches" is enabled in the file comparison window.

0.61.0

Changes since 0.60.1:

• Permit trailing commas in template enum definitions (#216).
• Add overwrite/insert toggle to "Fill range" dialog (#213).
• Add copy/export context menu commands to strings tool (#210).
• Fix temporary hang in strings tool when processing large files (#217).
• Fix settings not being saved during application exit.
• Batch comments panel updates to improve responsiveness (#205).
• Add search field to comments panel (#204).
• Add bit editor tool.
• Add checksum tool (#219).
• Add options to search for floating point values.
• Don't reload files modified externally when requested not to.
• Start search when Enter is pressed in search dialog input field, or search backwards when Shift+Enter is pressed.
• Add "Reload automatically" toggle to "File" menu to automatically reload the file when modified externally (and not in the editor) (#222).
• Preserve scroll position when reloading file.

0.60.1

Its been a long time since the last release, but hopefully worth the wait!

I've grouped the changes since 0.5.4 into categories below:

New features

• Add data histogram tool (#140).
• Monitor for open files being externally modified and allow reloading (#124).
• Add "Delete comment and children" context menu command to delete a comment and any comments encapsulated by it (#198).
• Allow dragging tabs between windows or out to new ones.

Quality of life improvements

• Use virtual offsets in "Select range" dialog.
• Don't re-open files to save when there are no changes (#193).
• Improve performance when large numbers of comments are defined.
• Open original file when passed a rehex-meta file on the command line (#207).

Character set handling

• Add <charset = "XXX"> syntax to templates (#184).
• Add character set option to text search (#182, #200).
• Add IBM codepage 866 and Windows-1251 (#208).

Binary templates

• Expose current array index as ArrayIndex when expanding arrays of structs in templates (#191).
• Fix true/false not being usable inside template functions/structs (#197).
• Add new ReadString(), SPrintf(), SetComment(), StringLengthBytes(), ArrayPush(), ArrayPop() and OffsetOf() template function.
• Fix repeated execution of the same switch() block in a template (#202).
• Add 'private' variables to template language.
• Fix template format strings that expand to further format tokens.
• Fix template error when converting a float to an int.
• Remember recently selected templates (#183).
• Implement lexical variable scoping in templates and allow functions to access global variables defined above them (#190).
• Add "Apply template from cursor" option to binary template tool.

Bug fixes

• Fix crash when running rehex for the first time on some systems (#194).
• Correctly draw insert cursor over highlighted data and at the end of the file (#196).
• Fix cases where the strings tool would appear to run forever with an empty file.
• Remove strings from the strings panel when they are deleted from the file.
• Fix crash when attempting to open a directory/bundle on macOS.

0.5.4

Mainly binary template improvements in this release, but also adds a pcap analyser plugin courtesy of @RegularITCat!

• Allow passing arguments to structs created via ArrayResize() and ArrayExtend() template functions.
• Fix parsing of whitespace in template array dereference (#175).
• Display offsets in comments panel (#165).
• Don't show expand arrows next to comments without children in comments panel on Windows/macOS.
• Improve performance of templates that declare many (thousands+) of variables in the file.
• Add Error() function for templates (#186).
• Fix crash when attempting to use string as a file variable in templates (#185).
• [Pavel Martens] Add plugin for annotating pcap files.

0.5.3

This release is mostly bugfixes and improvements for handling CJK encodings/characters.

Full changes below:

• Correctly nest comments when updating comments panel (#169).

• Update text in comments panel when a comment is modified.

• Fix display of >4GiB virtual offsets in files that are <=4GiB (#170).

• Add support for code page 437 (IBM) and 932/936/949/950 (Microsoft).

• Fix handling of multibyte character boundaries in document view.

• Draw wide characters in document view (#173).

• Move forwards/backwards and select whole instructions from disassembly in document view.

• Don't capture tab key press in text area of document view.

• Add missing error checks.

• Add number base option to "Jump to offset" dialog.

• Drawing optimisations (improves responsiveness), particularly on macOS.

• Fix some undefined behaviour issues.

0.5.1

This release fixes the macOS builds to run on 10.13 (High Sierra) and newer.

For other platforms, just download the 0.5.0 release.

0.5.0

New feature release!

Among other things, adds binary templates, a manual and bitmap data visualisation.

Full changes:

• Added "x86 disassembly syntax" to "View" menu to allow selecting between Intel or AT&T notation for x86 disassembly (#142).
• Handle file open message used for "Open With" on macOS (#144).
• Added --compare switch to jump straight into comparing two files (#141).
• Fix timer leak that can cause a crash when closing the compare window or strings panel.
• Add import and export functions for Intel Hex files (#102).
• Add online help (#147).
• Add Bitmap Data Visualisation tool (#29).
• Add Binary Template support (#138).
• [Emily Ellis] Save new files without the execute bit set (#154).
• Include highlight colour names in context menu (#153).
• Save write protect setting in rehex-meta.json (#143).
• Fix several occasional crashes.

NOTE: This release accidentally broke support for versions of macOS prior to 12.0 (Monterey), version 0.5.1 fixes this and will run on 10.13 (High Sierra) or later.

0.4.1

Bugfix update for 0.4.0 - this release fixes text rendering glitches that can occur when displaying control characters and some Unicode ones, depending which font is in use (worst affected is the default Windows font).