Version 16.0 - July 31st, 2025

The following is an overview of the new functionality in version 16.0 of 010 Editor:

• Tabs can now be placed in the Title Bar of the application.
• Updated styles to be more consistent with Windows 11, included rounded UI elements and scroll bars.
• macOS ARM support has been added.
• Highlighting can be applied to a file using any regular expression or find expression.
• Added <pos=...> and <localpos=...> attributes to place a variable at an address. localpos is relative from the parent struct.
• Added <edit=check|color|flags> to display a checkbox, color box, or flag selector box in the Template Results.
• Incremental Find now searches for values as you type in the Find Bar.
• Find and Find in Files are now threaded.
• Calculate Entropy and use an Entropy graph to determine which areas of a file contain random data.

The following is a list of all new features in version 16.0 of 010 Editor:

• Tabs
  • Tabs can now be placed in the Title Bar of the application.
  • Can change the color of the Title Bar using the Theme/Colors Options dialog.
  • Can change the tab location using the Opening Files/Tabs Options dialog.
  • When the mouse is hovered over a tab, the full file name is shown in the status bar.
  • Scroll buttons work better for scrolling through large number of tabs.
  • The Welcome page askes whether to move tabs to the title bar.
  • The current project name is now displayed in the Title Bar surrounded by square brackets '[' ']'.
• Styles
  • Updated styles to more consistent with Windows 11, included rounded UI elements and scroll bars.
  • Access the Startup page by clicking the icon at the top left of the application.
  • The Startup page has a new style.
  • Font sizes have been updated for some parts of the application.
  • New styles can be turned off using the Theme/Colors Options dialog.
• Templates and Scripts
  • Added <pos=number|function|expression> attribute as an easy to place a variable at an address in a file.
  • Added <localpos=number|function|expression> attribute to place a variable at an offset from its parent.
  • Added <format=decimalhex> to display numbers as both decimal and hex (for example, 16 [10h]).
  • Added <edit=check> to display a checkbox in the Template Results table. Clicking the checkbox assigns either 1 or 0 to the variable.
  • Added <edit=color> to display a color picker rectangle in the Template Results. Variables should also have a read/write function that returns a color in the HTML format "#RRGGBB" or "#RRGGBBAA".
  • Added <edit=flags> to interpret an enum as a set of flags.
  • When using flags, the variable value shows each flag separated by '|' (for example 'ONE | TWO | THREE'), and clicking the down arrow shows a list of checkboxes for each possible flag.
  • Variables may now be defined inside 'for' statements; for example 'for( int i = 0; i < 5; i++ )'. These variables are always created as local variables.
  • Added <warn=false> to turn off warnings for a particular variable.
  • The <hidden> attribute may now be any expression or function.
  • Single-bit bitfields are now automatically assigned a check box (use BitfieldSetAutoCheckBox(false) to turn this off).
  • for(;;) statements are now allowed.
  • The Run Template, Run Script, and Run on File drop-down lists are now alphabetical.
  • The _010_SCRIPT constant is now defined when running a script.
  • Show a warning when opening a large array in the Template Results (more than 10 million entries).
  • Improved error message when a variable could not be located in a structure using the '.' operator in some cases.
  • The Template Results and some other Tables can have a Column Display Format of Decimal/Hex.
  • Added EnumFlagsToString and EnumStringToFlags functions for working with enum flags.
  • Added DisplayFormatDecimalHex function, and SetDisplayFormat supports the constant DISPLAY_FORMAT_DECIMAL_HEX.
  • Added BitfieldGetAutoCheckBox and BitfieldSetAutoCheckBox functions to set if single-bit bitfields automatically have check boxes.
  • The ExportFile function has options for includeSpaces and includeLinefeeds, and supports a new constant EXPORT_HEX_EDITOR_AREAS.
  • 'Jump to Template Variable' now works better with disjoint structs.
  • On-demand structs apply colors more consistently when they are opened.
• Find
  • Incremental Find now automatically searches for values as you type in the Find Bar.
  • Find and Find in Files are now threaded (stop long searches by clicking the Stop button in the Find Bar).
  • Quick Find Next/Previous is supported. Make a selection in the editor and press F3 or Ctrl+F3 to find the next occurrence of the selection.
  • Incremental Search and Quick Find Next/Previous can be turned off in the Advanced Options of the Find Bar.
  • Support \U, \L, \u, and \E in replacement strings for regular expressions to change the case of capture groups.
  • \x?? is now supported in replacement strings when not using regular expressions.
  • Renamed the 'Search' tool bar to 'Find' to be consistent.
• Highlighting
  • Highlighting can be applied to a file using any regular expression or find expression.
  • Use the Highlights Options dialog to add regular expression highlights.
  • In the Find Bar, can also click the up arrow next to the 'All' button and select 'Add Highlighter'.
  • Turn Highlights on or off using 'View > Highlighting' and the highlights are persistent.
  • Highlights have options for match case, match whole word, and colors.
  • Highlights can either be applied to individual files or can be applied to all files that share an Edit As (see Scope in the Highlights Options dialog).
  • Other Find expressions can be used by placing a comma and a type specifier after the expression to highlight. For example, use "67 4F,h" to highlight the hex bytes 67 and 4F.
  • If a Highlight has been applied to the current file, right-click on the file and select 'Clear File Highlights' to turn off the highlights.
  • Highlights now have a separate default color for text and hex.
  • Added 'Zeros' highlighting rule for highlighting all 00 bytes.
  • Added 'View > Highlighting > Auto-Highlight Options' menu with 'Match Case' and 'Match Whole Word'.
• Entropy
  • Entropy can be calculated for a file using 'Tools > Histogram/Entropy'.
  • Entropy shows how random a file is, ranging from 0.0 (all one value) to 8.0 (completely random).
  • A graph of the entropy for a file is shown by splitting the file into 512-byte blocks and calculating the entropy for each block.
  • Adjust the block size in the Histogram/Entropy dialog.
  • Place the mouse over the graph to view a popup containing the entropy in the highlighted range, the start address, and the number of blocks selected.
  • Click on the graph to select bytes in the editor which correspond to the highlighted blocks.
• macOS
  • macOS ARM support has been added.
  • Minimum supported platform is now macOS 10.14.
• Linux
  • Minimum supported platform is now Ubuntu 18.04.
  • New style for scroll bars and the title bar.
  • Fixed problems starting Wayland on some Linux systems.
• General
  • Upgraded Qt library to 6.4.3.
  • Upgraded Oniguruma regular expression library to 6.9.10.
  • Can drag and drop from Windows Explorer to a Floating Tab Group window to open a file in that window.
  • Can drag and drop from Windows Explorer to one of the file fields in the Compare dialog to compare that file.
  • When loading a LNK file, try to read older LNK files that do not contain Unicode paths.
  • Added 'View > Font > Reset Font Size' and 'View > Font > Reset Font' actions.
  • In the Goto Bar, added Options for 'Hide Goto Bar after Goto' and 'Focus Editor after Goto'.
  • Renamed 'Copy as Text Areas' to 'Copy as Hex Editor Areas'.
  • Renamed 'Export Text Areas' to 'Export Hex Editor Areas'.
  • In the Page Setup dialog, added 'Show Line' toggles.
• Text Editor
  • On the Format menu, added an option to delete to the end of a line.
  • When using Auto-Indent and Insert Tabs is enabled, tabs are now inserted into the file instead of spaces.
• Hex Editor
  • Copy as Hex Text now has options whether to include spaces or linefeeds in the copy (see the Import/Export Options dialog).
  • Added an option to always Copy as Hex Text when copying from the hex bytes area of the hex editor (see the General Options dialog).
• Options
  • Renamed 'Opening Files' page to 'Opening Files/Tabs'.
  • Renamed 'Importing' to 'Import/Export'.
  • Renamed 'Inspector' to 'Inspector/Tables'.
  • On the General page, added an option to always Copy as Hex Text when copying from the hex bytes area of the hex editor.
  • On the Text Editor page, can now set the minimum number of digits for line numbers.
  • On the Opening Files/Tabs page, can choose whether tabs are shown in the title bar or above the editor.
  • On the Opening Files/Tabs page, added a toggle to force all files to read only when opened.
  • On the Opening Files/Tabs page, can toggle whether the full file name is shown in the status bar when a tab is hovered.
  • On the Theme/Colors page, added colors for the Title Bar, icons on the File Tabs, and the tear line for File Tabs.
  • On the Theme/Colors page, the Highlighting color has different default colors for Text and Hex.
  • On the Theme/Colors page, added native on/off for menus and group boxes.
  • On the Theme/Colors page, added Use Taller Tabs option.
  • On the Theme/Colors page, added options to turn off rounded menus, buttons, and scroll bars.
  • On the Highlights page, highlights can now be a Regular Expression or Find Expression.
  • On the Highlights page, can set the scope of a highlight to per file, or per edit as.
  • On the Compiling page, added a new warning option if attempting to open a node that has a large number of children.
  • On the Import/Export page, added Include Spaces and Include Linefeeds options for Export Hex Text/Copy as Hex Text.
  • On the Inspector/Tables page, added a Hex Display Format option for displaying hex numbers as 'FFh', '0xFF', or 'FF'.
• Bugs
  • Fixed when overwriting in text mode, sometimes a long UTF-8 character would not be overwritten correctly.
  • Fixed using Capitalize on words containing apostrophes did not work properly.
  • Fixed disassembly was sometimes not calculating addresses for 'jmp' statements correctly.
  • Fixed an issue with line numbers being off by one when debugging certain files.
  • Fixed Lua was not loading properly on Linux systems.
  • Fixed when searching a process, sometimes FindAll would not search through the whole process if the process structure had changed.
  • Fixed a possible crash when accessing a variable after calling FileClose.
  • Fixed EnumToString would not properly identify some enums in a local array.
  • Fixed a crash with certain regular expressions in the origuruma library.
  • Fixed calling FileSelect after RunTemplate could cause some types to be forgotten in certain cases.
  • Fixed the FPrintf printing position would reset on certain files after calling RunTemplate.
  • Fixed a possible crash using an array of unions with <optimize=false>.
  • Fixed zooming in and out sometimes did not reset the horizontal scroll bar properly.
  • Fixed the AddressLocalToFile and AddressFileToLocal functions were not taking into account a custom offset.
  • Fixed a hidden floating tab group could be shown sometimes when doing a Compare.
  • Fixed sometimes HTML tags were not being shown properly in the status bar.
  • Fixed a possible crash using #include with files containing '..'.

For a full list of changes in other versions, see the Release Notes.