May 16th, 2012[noindex] and [noautohide] attributes ignored:
· Structure Viewer ignored [noindex] and [noautohide] attributes. This resulted in incorrect behavior and increased memory usage. Fixed.
· Proxy tab was missing from Settings
· One of the recent updates incorrectly removed the Proxy settings tab. Fixed.
Crash after pressing Copy in Keyboard Map dialog:
· Program crashed after you pressed the Copy button in Keyboard Map dialog. Fixed.
Program crashed after saving downloaded update in non-default location:
· Program crashed when you tried to save to or execute the downloaded update from non-default location.
Structure Viewer's scheme loading bug:
· Hex Editor Neo could hang if you loaded Structure Viewer's scheme with multiple bound structures. Fixed.
"All opened documents" mode for Find in Files feature:
· Find in Files/Replace in Files function now provides "All opened documents" pseudo-location, allowing you to perform an operation on all currently opened documents.
Automatic detection of Language Pack availability:
· Hex Editor Neo now automatically detects if on-line language pack for user's default language is available and offers to download it.
Improved Structure Viewer performance:
· Structure Viewer's compilation and binding time reduced by about 10%.
May 16th, 2012Inactive refresh checksum button on XP:
· Refresh checksum button never became active on Windows XP. Fixed.
Current language not saved on portable installations:
· The program did not save the currently selected language if installed in portable mode. Fixed.
Structure Viewer tree visualization bug:
· In some rare situations Structure Viewer could start showing parsed tree incorrectly. Fixed.
May 16th, 2012Several reported bugs fixed:
· This release fixes several reported bugs, including application crashes.
Hang after print:
· Application hangs after you print a document. Fixed.
Localization support:
· Hex Editor Neo now supports installable interface language packs. Language pack creation is performed as part of open-source project. More information is available here.
New interface language pack: Russian:
· New complete interface language pack for Russian language is available for download. To download a language pack, go to Tools » Settings » Languages Tab.
Opening system volume:
· Hex Editor Neo now allows opening system volume in read/write mode. (It was previously forbidden for security reasons. Now it is up for user to decide).
New minimum number of columns:
· The minimum number of editor window columns is now two instead of four.
May 16th, 2012Crash on history load:
· Hex Editor Neo could crash if you loaded a file's history with one or more pattern coloring rules active. Fixed.
Error opening processes:
· It was impossible to open a process if application was installed in "portable" mode. Fixed.
Setup error:
· Setup failed to delete files if they had "read-only" attribute. Fixed.
Error editing floating-point numbers:
· It was impossible to edit some values when editor window was in "Float" or "Double" display type. Fixed.
May 16th, 2012Several reported bugs fixed:
· This release fixes several reported bugs, including application crashes.
· Structure Viewer: Invalid handling of bitfields
· Structure Viewer incorrectly displays bitfield values for some integer types. Fixed.
December 21st, 2011Major update to Structure Viewer:
· This version has completely new Structure Viewer, with a lot of new functionality and improvements.
Parallel operations:
· Several operations, like Find All and Replace All, now utilize several cores or processors (if they are available). It does not give linear speed-up, but sometimes up to 30% performance gain is obtained. Performance gain is more noticeable in Replace All commands, especially in regular expression mode.
True parallel execution of all lengthy operations:
· Previous versions allowed you to execute multiple operations in parallel, but user interface was rather limited: for example, it did not allow you to finish the first operation before the second finishes. Now, all started operations are equal and are executed truly in parallel. Application user interface is not blocked. Only windows of the current document are disabled until the operation execution is completed.
Support for Intel HEX and Motorola S files:
· Advanced Copy & Export now allows exporting selection into Intel HEX and Motorola S formats. In addition, new commands, File » Open » Open Hex… and Edit » Insert Hex… allow the user to convert Intel HEX and Motorola S files to binary form and insert them into the Hex Editor Neo.
Additional information is displayed for several lengthy operations:
· For Find All, Replace All and other operations, the number of occurrences found so far is displayed on the progress dialog.
Completely rewritten Checksum module:
· Checksum module has undergone complete rewrite, featuring new algorithms, greatly improved performance and parallel execution. That is, when several algorithms are selected at once, Hex Editor Neo utilizes multiple cores or processors (if they are available) to execute them in parallel.
· More hash algorithms are offered (the actual list depends on algorithms available through Cryptography API). More different ways to sum all values in a document or selection are offered, including signed and unsigned sums.
· User interface for a Checksum module has also been improved
Ability to copy/export the current selection:
· Hex Editor Neo now allows you to get the list of selected ranges into the Clipboard or directly to text file.
Improved experience when opening volumes and disks:
· Hex Editor Neo is now capable of opening volumes and disks in the same running instance, even if it runs under non-privileged user account.
Goto Navigation panel:
· Each editor window has its own navigation panel with individual location history.
Improved setup speed:
· Speed of Hex Editor Neo setup application has been greatly improved. Installer now needs to update less files and system settings and operates much quicker.
Improved application start-up time:
· We have improved the applicaiton start-up time by reducing time required by various components to initialize and allowing several components to initialize in parallel.
Improved Find in Files/Replace in Files commands:
· New version provides better utilization of multiple cores as well as proper operation on single-core computers; smoother operation on SSDs.
Improved support for eastern languages:
· Hex Editor Neo now provides better visual output of eastern languages characters in text pane.
April 13th, 2011Hex Editor Neo hangs on startup:
· Hex Editor Neo may start to hang on startup if vector image cache is damaged. Fixed.
Hex Editor Neo hangs and then crashes on startup:
· Hex Editor Neo fails to start on some computers running 64-bit Windows Vista. Fixed.
March 27th, 2011Big endian setting is not resepected by Text Pane:
· Text pane does not respect the Big Endian mode when displays UTF-16 text. Fixed.
March 23rd, 2011Fixed Bugs:
· Several bug fixes
· Several bugs reported by customers or discovered during internal testing have been fixed in this release.
New Features:
· Support for using regular expressions in replace pattern
· Replace and Replace All commands now support regular expressions as replace patterns, allowing you to refer to parts of matched expression when performing a replace.
Updated Features:
· Support for encodings in all commands that work with regular expressions
· Find, Find All, Replace, Replace All, Find in Files, Replace in Files, Pattern Statistics - all these commands now fully support currently selected encoding when they work in regular expressions mode.
February 19th, 2011Integration with Windows Error Reporting:
· Hex Editor Neo now fully integrates with Windows Error Reporting. We will be able to receive each submitted crash or hang report, analyze it and provide a solution to the customer.
New Data Operations – Reverse Bits and Byte Swap:
· New Reverse Operations commands were implemented in this release. Use the first command to reverse the order of bits in each value in a selection and use the second command to reverse the order of bytes.
New Arithmetic Operations – Set Minimum and Set Maximum:
· Two new arithmetic operations allow you to limit each value in a selection.
Regular Expression Scheme Association:
· Structure Viewer now uses regular expressions to match a scheme to the document.
Improvements in the editor:
Various small bug fixes and minor improvements in the editor:
· Application now remembers the state of the Details Selection tab between launches.
· Keyboard focus is now moved into the opened document.
· Shift+Home and Ctrl+Shift+Home keyboard combinations now correctly update selection.
· Insert Mode can now be switched during editing.
Several Bug Fixes:
· Several reported bugs were fixed in Structure Viewer (see What's New in Structure Viewer (version 4.96) for more information) and Disassembler. In addition, reported errors in exporting selected data as Delphi array were fixed.
October 12th, 2010Incorrect estimation for file comparison :
· File comparison function incorrectly estimated the required free space on hard disk. Fixed.
Crash in editor :
· Application may crash if you switch to floating-point mode after switching off a code pane. Fixed.
Missing application icon on taskbar :
· On some computers a taskbar application icon is missing when you start the Hex Editor Neo. Fixed.
September 28th, 2010Inability to use Clipboard from scripts:
· Error using Clipboard from scripts that use Hex Editor Neo's FileDocument object has been found and fixed.
Invalid copy/export from Structure Viewer:
· A Structure Viewer's Size column was not exported or copied to Clipboard. Fixed.
July 7th, 2010Fixed Bugs:
Installation may fail :
· Hex Editor Neo installation may fail. Fixed.
Unable to use arrow keys in custom keyboard shortcuts :
· Fixed.
April 12th, 2010Pasting numbers:
· Now, when text containing numbers is pasted into the code pane in editor window, any invalid character is treated as a separator. In addition, Hex Editor Neo is now able to parse numbers which do not contain any separators at all. For example, "0D0A" will automatically be parsed as two bytes 0D and 0A when pasted in editor window in Byte grouping mode.
March 30th, 2010Fixed Bugs:
· Several bugs in Structure Viewer
· Several bugs in Structure Viewer have been fixed.
New Features:
· Full UTF-8 support
· The editor now fully supports UTF-8 encoding. It can not only display text (in text pane) encoded as UTF-8, but also allows you to type encoded characters on the keyboard or paste from the Clipboard. All editor functions (such as Find, Fill etc.) correctly work with UTF-8.
· Encodings support in Structure Viewer
· This release also brings encodings support to the Structure Viewer. Now it uses the encoding currently selected for an editor window to parse single-byte character arrays or string.
Updated Features:
· Pasting with encoding
· When you paste text to the text pane, the current editor window's encoding is now used to convert the UNICODE text (if it is present in the Clipboard).
February 9th, 2010· Crash in Explorer window
· Hex Editor Neo crashes when you enter an Internet URL in its path box. Fixed. Hex Editor Neo does not support opening Internet resources this way in the current version, but at least it does not crash. Use the File » Open command to open Internet resources in the current version.
· New Features
· Ability to open Internet resources
· You can now open Internet resources specified by their URLs in the File » Open dialog. The editor will download the file and automatically open its local copy.
· Note: you can only use the File » Open dialog to open Internet resources, other methods (command line parameters, drag&drop, Explorer window) may not work.
February 5th, 2010· Crash in Go to Offset Dialog
· Hex Editor Neo may crash when you close the Go to Offset dialog. Fixed.
February 4th, 2010· Fixed Bugs
· Several bugs fixed
· Several reported bugs have been fixed.
· New Features
· Proxy Server
· You can configure a proxy server to use with such functions as Check for Updates, Downloader and Crash Dump Uploader. You can also configure authorization options, if your proxy server requires them.
· Bookmarks in Go to Offset dialog
· Current bookmarks are now displayed in the Go to Offset dialog.
· Selection manipulation in Go to Offset dialog
· Added an ability to manipulate the current selection directly in Go to Offset dialog. You can replace, add, remove or invert the current selection while changing the cursor offset in the document.
· Portable installation improvements
· When installed in portable mode, Hex Editor Neo now stores configuration settings in a file in a folder it is launched from.
· Updated Features
· Open Disk dialog improvements
· An additional column is added to the Open Disk dialog. It displays the physical drive information in a form of "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVEN", where N is a disk ordinal number assigned by operating system. This allows you to distinguish between the same disks from the same manufacturer.
· Added "Whole file" option to all operation dialogs
· All operations (bitwise, arithmetic and shift) dialogs now include the option "Whole file". You can use it to target an operation to a whole file without the need to select it first.
November 27th, 2009· Fixed Bugs
· Disassembler: Reset columns
· The Reset column button operated incorrectly. Fixed.
· Invalid progress
· Invalid progress was displayed for all operations with UNICODE regular expressions.
· Disassembler: file lock
· Disassembler continued to lock the file after it was closed. Fixed.
· Checksum: incorrect check for low disk space
· Hex Editor Neo prevented the checksum from being calculated when there was low disk space. Fixed.
· New Features
· File Compare: Non-file documents
· Now you can compare any type of opened documents using the File Comparison feature.
· Updated Features
· Cursor position on document save
· The cursor position and editor window focus are now retained on document save.
November 20th, 2009· Structure Viewer: several bugs
· Several bugs in Structure Viewer have been fixed. AVI and WAV sample files were also updated.
October 28th, 2009Application crash:
· Hex Editor Neo crashes when you execute the Pattern Coloring » Add Rule command with no open documents. Fixed.
October 24th, 2009· Fixed Bugs
· Setup: invalid security descriptors
· Setup incorrectly configures security descriptors for installed files and shortcuts when you install the product in "per-machine" mode. This may prevent other users from being able to run Hex Editor Neo. Fixed.
· Structure Viewer: bit-fields are now indexed
· A bug that prevented bit fields from being indexed is fixed. Now when you click on the cell which contains a bit field in the editor, the field is properly highlighted in Structure Viewer.
· Structure Viewer: crash
· Hex Editor Neo may crash when binding certain structures.
· New Features
· New tool window layout
· New tool window layout "Structure Analysis" provides maximum working space for analysing the document's structure.
· Updated Features
· Structure Viewer: bit fields type
· Changed the displayed type name for bit fields. It now shows the number of bits a field occupies (for example: int: 4).
· Structure Viewer: more accurate progress
· More accurate structure binding progress update. In addition, a progress window may switch to the marquee mode when binding complex structure with forward and backward pointers.
· Structure Viewer: optimization
· The execution of the assignment statement (variable = expr;) is greatly optimized. Such complex iterative structures as AVI, TGA and others will benefit from this optimization.
· Structure Viewer: optimization
· Structure Viewer tool window's main operations, like navigation, expanding/collapsing, scrolling and so on were optimized.
· Structure Viewer: TGA
· TGA file structure is updated to support run-length encoded images.
· Structure Viewer: common progress
· Structure Viewer now displays a single common progress when binding a structure that executes delayed binds (like PE header, for example).
October 2nd, 2009· New setup, per-user installation, portable version now available
October 1st, 2009· Crash on application exit
· A possible crash on application exit has been fixed.
September 29th, 2009· Fixed Bugs
· Crash in Compare Files
· Sometimes when "Compare Files" command was launched as Windows 7 task from the pinned application icon, it crashed after you pressed the OK button.
· Several bugs in Structure Viewer
· > Incorrect scope resolution for complex array indices.
· > Empty structures incorrectly had zero alignment, breaking any structure that referenced them.
· > Hex Editor Neo could crash when expanding string or wstring values.
· > When a script file referenced by a structure definition file was modified, Hex Editor Neo did not refreshed it properly, although notified the user of the change.
· > Enumeration visualization could produce incorrect results, if you used signed values in an unsigned enum.
· > Structure Viewer tool window could incorrectly display vertical lines.
· Invalid patch file registration
· Hex Editor Neo’s patch files were incorrectly registered by setup.
· Mouse wheel may not work correctly
· Mouse wheel scrolling now correctly works with high-definition mice.
· New Features
· Structure Viewer: major update to Portable Executable header sample
· PE header sample has been greatly enhanced. Now it parses more PE file structures, including import and export directory, resource directory, base relocation table, debug directory and others. It also illustrates how to use Javascript to extend the power of Structure Viewer's declaration syntax.
· Structure Viewer: new statements
· Structure Viewer now supports the following statements: while, for and do…while.
· Structure Viewer: support for current encoding
· Structure Viewer now uses the current editor window's encoding when displaying non-Unicode strings.
· Structure Viewer: pointer visualization
· For pointed types, not only the pointer value, but the snapshot of pointed type contents is visualized on a line (as it is for arrays and structures). In addition, a computed address is also displayed.
· Structure Viewer: new javascript keyword
· Javascript code now may be specified inline with a new javascript keyword. Note that VBScript code must still be referenced with #pragma script directive.
· Structure Viewer: $print directive updated
· $print directive now does not automatically convert its argument to string; instead it uses Structure Viewer’s data visualization engine. This allows it, for example, to respect the "Display Hex Values" setting when displaying integer values.
· Updated Features
· Mouse selection improvements
· Now it is much more easier to select data with mouse. The behavior is more consistent with other Windows applications.
· Cursor move on Paste
· Now there is an option to move the cursor to the end of the pasted data after the Paste operation (turned on by default).
· Extended encoding support
· All Hex Editor Neo commands (such as Fill, Find, Find All, Replace etc) now respect the current window’s encoding, when single-byte string type is chosen. The current encoding is also displayed in the command’s dialog. Note: when using regular expressions, default system encoding is always used.
· Current editor's window encoding is also respected by Pattern Coloring module.
· Clipboard improvements
· Now Edit->Copy and Edit->Cut commands automatically put selected data in text format into the Clipboard. Copy & Export tool window is still used to fine-tune the format used.
· Advanced Copy&Export improvements
· "Raw Text" copy&export mode also lists "Current Encoding" as encoding type. When selected (default), encoding from the current editor window is used.
· Advanced Copy&Export improvements
· “Formatted Values” copy&export mode now allows exporting data without separators (as text stream).
· Checksum improvements
· Click-and-calculate feature implemented: non-computed checksum value is automatically computed when you double-click it (no need to click checkbox and then Refresh button)
· File Compare improvements
· File Compare tool window’s commands are now application-wide commands. You can put them on the toolbar or assign keyboard shortcuts to them.
· Improved power management
· Hex Editor Neo now prevents the computer from going to sleep (unattended) when performing lengthy operation. This of course does not prevent the user to manually sleep the computer.
September 2nd, 2009New Setup Features:
Portable Installation:
· Setup now offers new installation mode which can be used to make a portable copy of Hex Editor Neo. Once installed, the copy of the product may be transferred to other locations, or to other computers where it can be used without installation. In this mode setup allows the user to install the product on the removable media and network shares.
Transactional Installation:
· Setup now performs installation of the product as a single transaction (on supported operating systems and configurations). If anything goes wrong during installation, including software or hardware errors, computer configuration is not modified. All setup activities are part of the transaction, including modifications done to the file system and system registry.
Restart Manager Support:
· Now, when setup needs to replace or remove a locked file, it uses the system restart manager to find the application that has a file open. It also offers a way to gracefully restart the application in order to update the file. This new feature greatly reduces the need for system restart during setup.
Per-User Installation:
· In addition to the previous, "per-machine" installation mode, a new installation mode is offered. It allows the user to install the application only for himself. In this mode, setup does not modify any per-machine settings. In addition, a user does not have to have administrative rights to install the Hex Editor Neo. After the product is installed in per-user mode, it is not visible to other users of the computer, but may also be installed by them in per-user mode.
July 1st, 2009· Fixed Bugs
· File Compare bug
· For some documents File Compare (simple algorithm) produced incorrect results. Fixed.
· Copy&Paste bug
· Data pasted from Clipboard (and previously copied/cut from Hex Editor Neo's document) could become corrupted in some situations. Fixed.
· New Features
· Shared Files Support
· Hex Editor Neo is now capable of working with files shared with other applications. After you open a shared file, Hex Editor Neo starts watching for file's modifications. If another application makes changes to a file, Hex Editor Neo displays a Shared File Conflict Dialog, which gives you options to ignore a change, update editor's copy, and/or merge changes with local changes.
· In addition, for all "update"-kind options you may instruct the editor to compare the new version with a previous one. Two file comparison algorithms provided by File Compare module are supported. Hex Editor Neo also allows you to retain older versions of a file in the editor. You may edit these old versions as any other kind of document in the editor, save your changes and so on.
· Updated Features
· Elevated privileges notification
· When launched with administrative privileges (either through "Run as administrator" option or through automatic elevation in Open Volume, Open Process or Open Disk commands), application title is changed to "Hex Editor Neo (Administrator)" to notify the user that application is running with elevated privileges.
June 9th, 2009· Performance improvements,
· UI customization improvements
June 3rd, 2009· This version fixes a potential crash on application exit and introduces new formatted text output format: Assembler array.
· In addition, MBR format (for Structure Viewer) definition is fixed (see mbr.h).
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