Software Update: WinHex 11.5 SR-5

WinHex is a universal hex editor that allows you to apply low-level data processing through an easy interface. The fifth SR release of version 11.5 has recently been released. A changelog with the differences between the SR releases is not available, but a list with all the changes made is available:

• Two new data types are supported by the data interpreter: signed and unsigned 24-bit integers.
• Digit grouping can be enabled optionally for decimal numbers in the data interpreter. This setting also affects templates.
• File Recovery by Type now recovers JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, TIFF, AVI, WAV, ZIP, and RTF files with their actual size (if below the user-supplied maximum size) and can often detect corruption in recovered JPEG and GIF data that arises eg in case of file fragmentation.
• There is a new WinHex API function, WHX_WasFoundEx, which returns the number of search term occurrences replaced by WHX_Replace.
• WinHex can now evaluate mathematical expressions in script parameters and templates. Formulae must be enclosed in brackets to be recognized and may use variables. Supported operations are addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication
• integer division (/), modular division (%), bitwise AND (&), bitwise OR (|), and bitwise XOR (^).
• Annotation positions are now optionally highlighted in the editor window, and when the mouse cursor is moved over them, the descriptions are displayed in small yellow tooltips. You may optionally use line breaks in the text.
• You may now exclude files in File Recovery by Name and in Create Drive Contents Table using filename patterns that begin with a colon ( : ). For example, you may include all files except NTFS system files by providing the following patterns: *.*;:$*
• Create Drive Contents Table can now calculate hashes of the files in a partition or in an image file. Deleted files are no longer ignored, but hashed as if they were recovered by WinHex.
• For NTFS drives that have been formatted, recovery of files and folders using the Access button menu has been considerably improved and works more successfully when recovering files from the former volume. Remember, when you have found the FILE record of a folder (eg by searching for the folder name in Unicode), you can explore it in the directory browser or recover it with all its subfolders and files using the appropriate commands in the context-sensitive Access button menu.
• The directory browser is now more flexible. It supports multiple selection in conjunction with the Open and the Recover/Copy command.
• Recovering large files by name (also via the directory browser or the access button menu) from FAT-formatted drives is now considerably faster.
• There is a new command in the directory browser’s context menu “Sort by directory entry location” (FAT) or “Sort by MFT ID” (NTFS), respectively.
• That cluster lists are displayed when double-clicking a file or directory in the directory browser is now optional. View | Show | Cluster Lists.
• If a sector with an MFT file record is on the screen, the details panel will now show the name and path of the file described by that record.
• You may now select images files directly as such in the file types drop-down list of the File | Open dialog, without the necessity to apply “Interpret File as Disk” afterwards.
• Gathering or initializing slack space has been significantly accelerated for FAT-formatted drives. Besides, it is now possible to gather slack space from FAT-formatted drives accessed as a partition or an image file.
• WinHex still selects MS Excel by default for viewing and editing tab-delimited text files. However, you may now select your favorite program if MS Excel cannot be found on your computer.

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