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Helium Hex Editor Changelog

What's new in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.11

Apr 29, 2024
  • PE display ordinal import and resolved name
  • PE better forwarded functions display
  • Minor GUI bugs fixes

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.10 (Mar 26, 2024)

  • PE Added Filters for list views (Exports and Imports)
  • Added RegEx options (grammar and case)
  • Parsing PE 32 from 64 bits version could miss temporary files deletion
  • Docking control : floating windows can be minimized

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.9 (Mar 4, 2024)

  • Faster dll stub resolving
  • PE parsing bug solved : In some cases some ordinal only exports could miss
  • Parsing PE 32 from 64 bits version could miss temporary files deletion
  • Horizontal scroll bar bug for entropy window solved (regression introduced in version 2.6.2)
  • PE parsing : Added option to choose dll stub resolving way
  • PE parsing : Added option to choose folders order for dll resolving

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.8 (Feb 6, 2024)

  • PE parsing bug solved:
  • Forwarded functions without Hint was not properly detected

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.7 (Feb 5, 2024)

  • PE parsing regression introduced in v2.6.6 solved
  • Minor fixes

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.6 (Nov 30, 2023)

  • GUID directly editable from basic types
  • Disasm improvements
  • PE parsing improvements
  • Minor fixes

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.5 (Sep 28, 2023)

  • Basic Types View : type __time32_t, __time64_t and GUID added
  • PE compare : fields offset are displayed
  • Magic engine and database updated to 5.45
  • Small GUI bug fixes

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.4 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Intel Hex saving: use of "Extended Linear Address" information when saving in 32 bits. Potential crash solved when saving in 8 bits
  • Crypto success message box optional through "ShowMessageBoxOnSuccess" option in ini file (no GUI)

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.3 (Apr 4, 2023)

  • Added HASH : xxHash32, xxHash64, xxHash3_64, xxHash3_128, HAS-160, GOST12-256, GOST12-512, GOST94, GOST94 (CryptoPro), EDONR-224, EDONR-256, EDONR-384, EDONR-512
  • Small GUI improvements and bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.2 (Jan 31, 2023)

  • Change File Time : drag and drop bug solved. Multiple files select added
  • PE resource viewer: added scrolling capabilities when displaying large resource dialogs or images

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.6.1 (Jan 16, 2023)

  • Added : ASCII table dialog
  • Stat are using document code page instead of user's code page
  • Small GUI improvements and bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.5.1 (Jan 9, 2023)

  •   Added : PE added support for event template resources (WEVT_TEMPLATE):
  •       Decoded event template structures are added to PE structs view
  •       Event Manifest generation from PE event template (you can use the generated manifest with the Microsoft Message Compiler MC.exe)
  •    Hexa view can be zoom in/out with "Ctrl" + "+" and "Ctrl" + "-" ou "Ctrl" + mouse wheel
  •    Crypto : Added many well-known CRC algorithms
  •   Crypto : Added HASH algorithm Microsoft BinXml names
  •    Document type identification : Update to allow support of new database keyword of file version 5.44 + Database update
  •    Small GUI improvements and bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.4.4 (Nov 2, 2022)

  • Crypto : Added HASH algorithm LSH-256-224, LSH-256-256, LSH-512-256, LSH-512-384, LSH-512-512
  • Document type identification : Update to allow support of new database keyword of file version 5.42 + Database update
  • Added : PE Search by custom resource name
  • Added : PE MUI information decoding
  • Small GUI bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.4.3 (Sep 4, 2022)

  • Added: PE (Portable Executable) Rich header decoding
  • Added: Duplicate export finder
  • Added: Unwind info display for exported fonction
  • Bug Solved: Error in case of invalid regular expression could occur

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.4.2 (Feb 7, 2022)

  • Added utf8 support for search, replace, insert and fill operations
  • Enum size computation correction
  • Use Number of Bytes per Line instead of number of columns to keep same width even in case of type size changing
  • Listview bad rendering solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.4.1 (Dec 3, 2021)

  • Multiple Documents Entropy Display: display entropy across documents or network packets content.
  • Useful to analyze unknown binary file headers or network protocols data (support of Wireshark packets capture files pcap and pcapng)
  • Search and replace for multiple files at once
  • Ansi Display: code page can be selected for single byte char display
  • Crypto: Basic sums (8,16,32 and 64 bits) added to checksums tab
  • Crypto: Can display key information from key files (RSA and Elliptic)
  • Small bugs and memory leaks solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.3.2 (Sep 5, 2021)

  • Windows explorer context menu fixes (single instance launched).

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.3.1 (Jul 21, 2021)

  • Windows explorer context menu for those who can't register new shell extension COM component bug solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.3.0 (Jul 13, 2021)

  • Cryptography:
  • Added : Multiple files input for the selected algorithm
  • Added : Elliptic cryptography: ECDSA, ECGDSA, ECNR, ECIES, ed25519
  • Added Hash : SHAKE-128 and SHAKE-256
  • Added CRC32 : user custom polynom support
  • Added Block Cipher : CHAM 64, CHAM 128, Hight, LEA, Simeck 32, Simeck 64
  • Added Stream Cipher : ChaCha IETF, XChaCha20, Rabbit, HC-128, HC-256, Sosemanuk
  • Magic database update
  • Added dll for windows explorer shell menu to handle more than 15 selected files at once
  • Struct viewer : solved crash that could occur when validity of data was changing
  • Struct parser : solved crash that could occur for bad enum declaration
  • Small GUI bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.2.0 (Feb 9, 2021)

  • Added Hex Document or Hex Document parts identification through magic library
  • Struct viewer : display relative offset for the selected field
  • Copy as array : added export for the following languages C#, Basic, Pascal/Delphi, Javascript, Php, Perl, Python and Rust
  • Disassembler improvment for function name resolution in Raw and RVA mode
  • PE resource viewer : solved incorrect display of some bitmaps
  • PE resource viewer : automatic identification of unknown resource type through magic library
  • Small GUI bugs solved

New in Helium Hex Editor 2.1.0 (Dec 11, 2020)

  • Added Bytes Distribution charts
  • Added Entropy charts
  • Disassembler improvment for function name resolution in Raw and RVA mode
  • Speed improvement for huge search result display and removal
  • Small GUI bugs solved