2018.05.0.TIF

Major features and changes:

• Added editing support to hex view (it's still an experimental feature
  because of problems with the Veles backend).

Minor features and changes:

• A lot of compatibility fixes for macOS:
  • Fixed TLS cert validation problems.
  • Enable high-DPI support.
  • Fixed-width fonts work correctly now.
  • Fixed CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET, which prevented Veles from being run on
    some macOS versions.
• Hex view:
  • Added 'Save chunk to file' and 'Select chunk' commands.
  • Performance of hex view rendering has been greatly improved.
  • The number of hex columns is now changeable from the hex view tab and
    adjustable per-tab.
  • Two new buttons in the search dialog: "Find Previous" and "Replace
    Previous".
  • Partially visible rows are now rendered.
  • Added 'Save as...' option.
• Visualizations:
  • Trigram view can now use orthogonal projection.
  • Points in the trigram view are now scaled properly.
  • Current visualization settings are now highlighted in the UI.
  • Axes can now be hidden.
  • Trigram colors are now changeable in the options dialog.
  • Axes are now smoothly animated when changing coordinate system.
• Added more keyboard shortcuts:
  • Ctrl + PgUp/PgDn for tab navigation.
  • Ctrl + Up/Down for hex view scrolling.
  • + / - for changing hex columns number.
• Added "Apply" and "Reset to defaults" button to the options dialog.
• Default theme was changed to dark.
• UI fonts are now selectable.
• Corrected invalid verification of TLS cert when connecting to the backend
  (valid certificates with non-matching fingerprint are not accepted anymore).
• Fixed connecting when a local server is already running.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed autoscrolling when moving cursor.
• Fixed multiple rendering glitches in the hex view.
• Fixed a glitch in the trigram view (manipulator quaternions were not
  normalized).
• Fixed minimap crash on small files.
• Hovered item in the database view wasn't highlighted in dark theme.
• Fixed cursor movement in server URL field in the connection dialog.
• We now wait for a local server to exit when Veles is closed.
• Empty files are now correctly handled.

2017.06.0.1 SWOND Bugfix release

Fixed invocation of server so it doesn't fail when installed from .deb package

2017.06.0.SWOND

Major features and changes:

• Added a cursor to the hex view.
• Introduced support for editing bytes in hex view (currently without an ability to change file size).
• Added many new keyboard shortcuts.
• Added a shortcut editor.
• Connection to the server uses TLS now.
• "Replace" option has been enabled.

Minor features and changes:

• "Find/Replace" dialog has been slightly improved.
• Dropped support for MinGW (due to broken std::random_device, slow compile time, lack of support for new C++ standards and many others)

Bugfixes:

• Client API Python library has been fixed to support Python 2.
• Previously Ctrl+C didn't work when running srv.py on Windows.

2017.5.0.ŚWITEZIANKA

Major features and changes:

• Introduced client-server architecture:
  • The server can run remotely and can be shared amongst many users.
  • The server is currently written in Python 3.
  • There's a possibility to script Veles using both Python 2 and 3, but currently without a support for any GUI operations.
• Created an instalator for Windows, added a support for DEB packages and a drag and drop installer for macOS.
• Dropped official 32-bit Windows support, due to problems with MessagePack.
• Keep current state in a database file.

Minor features and changes:

• Added more encoders in hex view ("Copy as" context menu).
• Added connection dialog.
• Lowered minimum macOS version to 10.10.
• Moved 3D view control panel to a horizontal bar.

Bugfixes:

• Fixed a glitch in 3D view mouse manipulation.
• 3D views which are not currently visible don't use CPU/GPU resources anymore.
• Fixed minor stability issues.

Caveats:

• Python3 (>= 3.5) is now needed to run Veles on macOS and has to be manually installed.
• To install Veles from DEB package on Ubuntu you need to enable "universe" repository (it is normally enabled by default, but not on live CD).
• Hotkeys from the top menu don't work on Ubuntu 16.* due to a Qt bug:
  • This is already fixed in Qt, but 16.* have old Qt in repo.
  • Bug description: https://bugs.launchpad.net/appmenu-qt5/+bug/1380702
  • You can circumvent the bug by running Veles with the following environment variable set: UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=""

2017.02.0.YAGNI

Minor features and changes:

• Disassembler:
  • Initial release of Python disassembler (for Python 3.x) - temporarily without specialized disassembler view.
• Python library related improvements:
  • Added separate Python classes for blobs and chunks.
• UI improvements:
  • HexEditWidget and NodeTreeWidget merged into single tab.
  • Various refactors and fixes.

2017.1.0.MechanicalTurk

Major features and changes:

• Added network protocol that allows using external scripts as ad-hoc parsers. Added a simple Python library to support using this functionality. Check out python/README.rst for details.
  • For security reasons network server is disabled by default and has to be enabled in the options dialog.
  • This feature is still in an early phase of development and the API will change in future releases.
• Added a few parsers for well known file formats (avi, bmp, elf, gif, pe, mov, zip). New parsers have been generated from Kaitai template files (https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct). Support for user-provided Kaitai files is planned in upcoming releases.

Minor features and changes:

• Major improvement in visualisation performance.
• Added camera manipulators in visualisation.
• Added reference frames and captions in visualization.
• Added ability to parse file starting from selected location.
• Added ability to choose which parser to use.
• Separated hex view and tree view for file.
• Multiple changes to docks handling.
• Fixed multiple minor bugs in the visualization "minimap".
• General look and feel improvements.
• Added ability to scroll to chunk.
• Double click in database view opens file.

Bugfixes:

• Multiple bugfixes related to visualisation sampling.
• Multiple bugfixes related to chunk deletion.
• Fixed visualisation scaling.
• Show error message if OpenGL doesn’t work instead of crashing.
• Added warning on failure when opening file instead of silent failure.