Hex Fiend Release Notes

v2.8

• Add "Copy as ASCII" menu for always copying plain text as ASCII instead of the current encoding
• Add preference to control default edit mode
• Add search field to encodings window
• When Find is activated its text field's text is now selected
• Fix crash when copying more than 32KB of text
• Fix hexf missing shebang (thanks Misty De Meo)

v2.7

• Add option to show data inspector ints as hexadecimal or decimal
• Fix line number format not saving when clicking the column directly
• Window now auto saves its position (thanks Daniele Cattaneo)
• 95% of code has been updated for Automatic Reference Counting
• Removed File > Open Path. Use the standard open dialog's command-shift-G feature to open paths directly

v2.6

• Add hexf command line tool, which can be installed via the menu Hex Fiend > Install Command Line Tool. This is a simpler convience wrapper around the open command.
• Fix showing the last line number with certain fonts (thanks Daniele Cattaneo)

v2.5

• Add Line Number Format menu
• Font menu items display using font
• Remove File Format option when saving
• Fix broken read-only mode
• Fix error messages not showing when files can't be opened

v2.4

• Added binary and SLEB128 and ULEB128 int inspector
• Added hide null bytes option
• Added text encodings table
• Allow selecting packages and hidden files
• Fixed many bugs and memory leaks

v2.1.2

• Fixed Jump to Offset

v2.1.1

• Fixed a bug that caused exceptions when scrolling with a non-precise scrolling device (like a classic scroll wheel mouse).
• Removed an .xcconfig file that was inadvertently being copied into Resources

v2.1.0

• Support for computing a binary diff between two files. This is a "true" LCS-based diff. Support for computing the diff lives in HexFiend.framework, while the document that presents it is in HexFiend.app.
• Bookmark support. Bookmarks are little balloons that point at a range of bytes. They are not saved with the document.
• Some support for attributes on ranges of bytes, which then can be translated into visual styles (such as colors).
• Hex Fiend now has a privileged helper process ("Fortunate Son"), which can be used to read raw devices, root owned files, etc. Communication is via MIG.
• Transient untitled document support. That is, if there is an untitled document that has never been edited, its window gets used by any document that's opened.
• Undo can now be preserved across saves, when doing so doesn't require too much memory.
• It looks more 3D. It's like you're really inside a hex editor!
• Many more bug fixes representing a few years of work.