Command Line Interface, .NET scripts, Achievements

Additions

• Added a command line interface to ImHex. Huge thanks to @iTrooz
  • Get started by typing imhex --help
• Added initial support for .NET scripts
  • These scripts are meant to be a cross-platform way of performing automated actions.
  • They cannot be used to add new features like native plugins can
  • Special thanks to @PerikiyoXD for some really involved fixes around this
• Added Achievements
  • These are meant to provide an easy and fun way to learn and get used to ImHex
  • The achievement window can be opened by going to Extras -> Achievement
  • If you don't like the achievements and just want to use ImHex like before, open the achievements window and disable the popups there
• Added a new and much nicer splash screen
• Allow memory files to be saved to project files and be renamed
  • Files can also be converted to memory files now
• Added support for hashing arbitrary strings using the hashes view
• Added built-in logging console
• Allow hex editor data visualizers to be switched to big-endian mode
• Upgraded to Capstone V5 finally
• Encoding names are now being displayed in the header of the hex editor
• Added a "Update All" button to the content store
• Linux now uses the GTK filepicker whenever possible
  • This should correct issues where the file picker didn't work correctly on some Linux systems by default
  • The AppImage and Flatpak still use the Portals filepicker because it's necessary there
• The hex editor editing mode is now being entered when pressing Enter
• Added a setting to remember the current main window size and position
• Added option to fill a selected region with bytes
• Added option to switch between human-readable sizes and bytes in the hex editor footer. Thanks to @LennardF1989
• Removed Anonfiles file uploader. Rest in Peace ✝️
• Added windo actions popup when clicking on the header icon
• Added authors and descriptions to things in the content store
• Added shortcuts to switch between providers, evaluate patterns and interact with the pattern debugger

Improvements

• Improved the data information diagrams look and field
• Multi-window support is now being disabled properly by default on Linux
• Plugins are now being loaded asynchronously to improve startup times
• Pattern console is automatically scrolled to the bottom now when new lines are being added
• Unidentifiable data is being handled better now in the data information view
• Allow hex editor view to be scrolled slightly past the end
• Made demangler results selectable and copyable
• Timestamp of files is being updated correctly now on Windows. Thanks to @lorsanta
• ImHex should now exit cleanly when crashing
• Bytes per row count setting in the hex editor is being remembered now. Thanks to @LennardF1989

Bug Fixes

• Fixed raw disk provider not working correctly on non-windows platforms. Thanks a lot to @Nowilltolife
• Fixed disassembler view not clearning selection when typing in the region field
• Fixed page count displaying wrongly in empty files
• Fixed crash when trying to paste bytes without a selection
• Fixed occasional crash when evaluating patterns
• Fixed scaling not being applied properly in some cases
• Fixed bookmarks not being loaded correctly from project files
• Fixed menu bar being scrollable sideways
• Fixed loading projects when an existing project is loaded already
• Fixed issues where the cursor started flickering when hovering certain elements
• Fixed crash when clicking on "Open in new view" in a bookmark
• Fixed occasional crash when loading incorrect data processor node files
• Fixed writing to non-zero pages in the hex editor when a custom base address has been set
• Fixed issue where libmagic dumped a bunch of compiled files into the cwd on Linux and macOS. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Fixed endianess of all CRC hashes
• Fixed highest/lowest entropy block address in the data information view being wrong
• Fixed issue where downloading items from the store was suceptible for path traversal. Thanks to @iTrooz
• Fixed various data processor issues

Pattern Language

• Added typenameof operator
• Added [[hex::favorite]] attribute to mark patterns as favorites directly
• Added [[hex::group]] attribute to add patterns to custom groups in the pattern data view
• Added single-stepping feature to pattern debugger
• Added coordinates visualizer
• Added timestamp visualizer
• Images in the pattern image and bitmap visualizer can now be scaled
• Added various new inline visualizers such as "color", "guage" and "button"
• Format functions are no longer being evaluated during highlighting
• Sections without a name are being hidden now and treated as "internal" sections
• Added [[hex::spec_name]] attribute to document names for pattern variables taken from the documentation
• Added string in/out variables
• Fixed issue where pattern local variables sometimes allocated huge amounts of memory

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