+ MIPS: convert lwl/lwr and similar sequences to the corresponding unaligned load/store macros (ulw/uld/etc.)

+ PC: added decoding of UD0 and UD1 instructions

+ PPC: always allow VLE code and offer the user to set all code to VLE when loading binary files

+ DALVIK: added support for "invoke-polymorphic", "invoke-polymorphic/range", "invoke-custom", "invoke-custom/range" instructions

File Formats

• + COFF: default to Windows-1252 (or the local 8-bit encoding) for i386 files

• + Mach-O: IDA now loads symbols present in possible, separate .dSYM file

• + dex: added support for multidex android packages

• + dex: added support for DEX file format 038

Debugger

• + debugger: OSX: introduce SYMBOL_PATH in dbg_macosx.cfg. This can significantly speed up symbol loading when using the Remote Mac OSX Debugger

• + debugger: added support for thread names

• + debugger: iOS: support remote process list for iOS 10 and later

• + debugger: improved the speed of binary search in process memory (1000 times or more)

• + debugger: use hardware breakpoints for tracing if "use hardware temporary breakpoints" is set

• + ios_deploy: added "applist" phase

• + ios_deploy: added "probe" phase

• + ios_deploy: fix "kill" phase for iOS 10 and later

• + ios_deploy: fix "proclist" phase for iOS 10 and later

• + ios_deploy: improved "launch" and "kill" phases so that they work with any arbitrary application (even System apps)

• + GDB: added support for GDB stubs reporting unavailable registers

• + GDB: added support for QPassSignals (when an exception is set to pass to application, not suspend, and to be silent)

• + GDB: improved calculation of maximum packet size supported by remote stub

• + GDB: improved detection of architecture and setup of register sets

• - removed WinCE and Symbian debuggers

Kernel/Misc

• + kernel: added support for 64-bit 'bytes' in ida64

• + kernel: improved handling of noret functions

• + kernel: improved heuristics of function detection

• + kernel: improved switch recognition

• + kernel: improved system eh region detection and analysis

• + kernel: made create_generic_linput() and related functions thread-safe

• + rtti: improved auto detection of 'complete object locator' as referrence before vtable

• + FLIRT: ICL: added signatures for icl175 (Intel C++ 17.5)

• + FLIRT: ICL: added signatures for icl180 (Intel C++ 18.0)

• + FLIRT: ICL: added signatures for icl181 (Intel C++ 18.1)

• + FLIRT: VC: added signatures for vc1412 (Visual Studio 2017.5)

• + FLIRT: pelf: added support for x86_64 relocations 41 (R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX) and 42 (R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX)

• + FLIRT: vc/vc64: added signatures for ucrt 16299 (Windows 10 Fall Creators Update SDK)

• + TIL: added a type library for Objective-C

• + TIL: added prototypes for dispatch_sync(), dispatch_async() and other block-related functions to macosx.til

• + TIL: added struct Block_layout and related _Block_xxx functions to macosx.til

• + CFG: Added 'Chinese' culture file

• + CFG: added config variable APPEND_IDB_EXT: append or replace input file extension by the database extension when constructing an IDB name

• + CFG: removed CACHE_NODE_SIZE, changed config parameter XREF_CACHE_LIMIT to XREF_CACHE_COUNT, the maximum number of xref cache entries may be specified

User Interface

• + ui/qt: "Export data" will now propose a file name derived from the name of the first item that's being exported

• + ui/qt: added API to clear, save and retrieve lines from the "Output window"

• + ui/qt: choosers can now provide tooltips for their less descriptive column names

• + ui/qt: during debugging, locals & watches can now be searched using Alt+T, Ctrl+T

• + ui/qt: in addition to the font, it is now possible to specify top & bottom paddings around listing lines

• + ui/qt: it's now possible to change the font for tabular data widgets

• + ui/qt: script snippets: when creating a new snippet, inherit the language from the previous one

• + ui/qt: searching for binary data now lets the user pick what encoding the string literal portions of the input text should be encoded into, in order to perform the search

• + ui/qt: the "script snippets" editor now shows line numbers on the left

• + ui/qt: when assigning a string literal to an address, it's now possible to first select the encoding, before selecting the string literal type

• + ui/txt: mimic linux's behavior for non-ASCII input letters, so that they don't inadvertently maps to unrelated actions

• + ui: ability to run the current script snippet from anywhere (using Ctrl+Shift+X)

• + ui: added third set of kernel options to allow modification of AF_DORTTI amd AF_DOEH via UI

Scripts & SDK

• + SDK: modernized the debugger module api

• + IDC: string comparison was stopping at the first zero character, now we take into account the real length of strings (which may have zeroes in the middle)

• + Python,IDC: scripted loaders/procmods/plugins are now loaded in their own namespace by default, preventing namespace pollution (provided the script engine supports it.)

• + SDK: added 'ui_screen_ea_changed' notification, letting plugins know when something changed the globally-available "current address"

• + SDK: added format_charlit() to ua.hpp, a finer-grained version of print_charlit()

• + SDK: deprecated get_min_spd_ea()

• + SDK: tryblks: added find_syseh()

Decompilers

• + exported microcode api

• + added UI action "Set call type..."

• + improved handling of struct field reconstruction

• + introduced KERNEL_NREGS configuration parameter

• + introduced a rule to get rid of __OFSUB__ in some cases

• + made numerous minor improvements to the optimization engine

• + pc: added support for the xadd instruction

• + recognize floating-point arithmetic aeabi helper functions

• + recognize memory management helpers aeabi_memcpy*, aeabi_memset*, aeabi_memclr*

• + simplified if-then-else construction with identical branches

• + use a user-defined stroff instead of udt field references if there is a contradiction between them

• + x64: added support for the syscall instruction (convert into linux system calls when possible)

BUGFIXES

• BUGFIX: pc: fixed interr 10148

• BUGFIX: DWARF: The plugin could show a warning, when it couldn't make sense of duplicate typedefs

• BUGFIX: Editing script snippets & closing their window while no IDB was loaded, could cause IDA to crash when the user decides to load an IDB

• BUGFIX: En-masse application of some operations (e.g., set immediate radix to octal) would fail for operands beyond the second

• BUGFIX: En-masse offset conversion could fail for values that pointed to addresses that had uninitialized data

• BUGFIX: En-masse offset conversion could leave some valid values unconverted

• BUGFIX: En-masse offset conversion would turn values that don't fall within the specified range into offsets nonetheless

• BUGFIX: For structure members with a string literal type, certain string layouts (e.g., delphi with 4-bytes length header) wasn't respected

• BUGFIX: IDA SDK 7.0's plugins/script_plg/procext.py was not ported to the IDA 7.0 processor modules API

• BUGFIX: IDA could INTERR (40481) in case the user was switching back & forth between flat & graph view on a function that is hidden, and in the beginning of a segment which displays some additional information

• BUGFIX: IDA could crash with out of memory error in some ARM64 files, especially if using the decompiler

• BUGFIX: IDA's debugger memory cache could produce bad cache hits after a failed read at address 0

• BUGFIX: IDAPython/bc695: action_ctx_base_t::form & action_ctx_base_t::form_title were missing

• BUGFIX: IDAPython/bc695: many "inf" fields were not accessible anymore (e.g., 'mf')

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: -1 couldn't be passed as 'len' to get_strlit_contents()

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: Using execute_sync() with MFF_NOWAIT could cause IDA to abort()

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: backward-compatible multi-choosers would lose their selection on double-click/enter

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: deriving from IDP_Hooks, could cause error messages of the form "ValueError: invalid null reference in method 'IDP_Hooks_ev_adjust_argloc'" to be printed in the "Output window"

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: failure to give a plugin a "wanted_name", could result in IDA crashing

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: ida_diskio.get_ida_subdirs() was unusable

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: ida_hexrays.cexpr_t()'s copy-constructor wouldn't create a duplicate of the underlying C tree

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: processor_t.is_sp_based() was not usable in case one followed the example in proctemplate.py

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: processor_t.set_func_start()/set_func_end() notifications were unusable

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: rebase_program() wouldn't accept a delta with its Most-Significant-Bit set to 1 (e.g., 0x80000000), making it very difficult to use

• BUGFIX: IDAPython: tab completion could fail to work, depending on the processor module (e.g., ARM)

• BUGFIX: In the 'Structures' window, structure members with string literal types whose encoding takes up more than 2 bytes per unit (e.g., UTF-32), would be represented as 'word's instead of 'dword's

• BUGFIX: Opening script snippets without a database opened, would result in the default snippet having an empty name

• BUGFIX: PDBs with a mix of unions and anonymous structures could cause interr 815

• BUGFIX: Retrieving the name of an address which is the last address of a function chunk that is itself placed right before the main function chunk, could provide erroneous results

• BUGFIX: TRICORE: register tracker-calculated offsets could override user-defined ones

• BUGFIX: Typing '0x23' in the calculator (i.e., hotkey '?') would result in truncated character display

• BUGFIX: gdb: IDA would not show a wait box for "Run until return"

• BUGFIX: loading a pdb file would add the current idb in the file history in the File menu

• BUGFIX: pdb plugin could crash the msdia library during remote debugging

• BUGFIX: qlist::swap() was broken

• BUGFIX: refreshing a chooser could cause IDA to hang in very specific situations

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: "Report a bug/issue" dialog's text edit had empty space to the right of the text area

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: after setting a structure member as a string literal, re-opening the dialog wouldn't show the right strlit type

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: in graph view, going to beginning/end of a long line in a long node, could result in the node moving out of the screen

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: navigating the preview listing with the keyboard in the "IDA Colors" configuration dialog was impossible

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: saving shortcuts from the shortcuts editor would fail for actions whose shortcut was cleared

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: setting field type in unions could end up truncating the union

• BUGFIX: ui/qt: when an automatic snapshot is taken, don't show the wait dialog, as it might interfere with the user's work

• BUGFIX: ui/txt: idat[64] could crash at exit-time when decompiler views were created

• BUGFIX: hexrays: ARM cinv instruction was decompiled incorrectly

• BUGFIX: hexrays: combining rule 24 (64bit negation) could produce incorrect code

• BUGFIX: hexrays: decompiler could crash after renaming a function argument on the stack if the previous user action was to change the type of a function argument type to a non-compatible type

• BUGFIX: hexrays: deleting user-defined label was impossible

• BUGFIX: hexrays: in some cases combination of 64bit operands could produce incorrect results

• BUGFIX: hexrays: in some rare cases combining rule for 64bit addition could produce wrong code

• BUGFIX: hexrays: it was impossible to rename the "result" variable

• BUGFIX: hexrays: renaming a function in the pseudocode window could cause a crash

• BUGFIX: hexrays: fixed many interrs

• BUGFIX: when debugging an iOS framework, the HEADER segment for the exe module would be missing

DBG_HAS_SET_EXCEPTION_INFO

DBG_HAS_THREAD_SUSPEND

DBG_HAS_THREAD_CONTINUE

DBG_HAS_SET_RESUME_MODE

DBG_HAS_THREAD_GET_SREG_BASE

DBG_HAS_CHECK_BPT

DBG_HAS_OPEN_FILE

DBG_HAS_UPDATE_CALL_STACK

DBG_HAS_APPCALL

DBG_HAS_REXEC