What's new?

Check the latest changes in the Hex-Rays documentation, including new tutorials and manuals, along with significant revisions to existing content.

August 2025

Domain API Documentation Resources

The easy-to-use Domain API is our newly released, Pythonic interface for developing IDA plugins and scripts. To help you get up and running quickly with this open-source API, we’ve prepared a set of documentation resources:

• Getting Started Guide, including installation and first steps

• Real-life Code Examples

• Domain API Reference

Not sure if the Domain API is right for you?

If you're new to the Domain API, start with our FAQ to see how it compares with existing approaches and whether it suits your needs.

June 2025

Revamped Subviews Overview

We refreshed and updated the Subviews listing and overview.

March 2025

Improved IDC Reference

We've refined the experience for the IDC Reference documentation. Starting now, you can explore it just like the IDAPython and C++ SDK references. To improve searchability and usability, we've moved the IDC function lists to a dedicated site. Meanwhile, conceptual documentation, such as core concepts, remains under the Developer Guide.

License Server on WSL – New Guide

We updated our Admin Guide with a step-by-step tutorial on how to configure the license server on WSL, making it easier for Windows users to set up and manage the Hex-Rays server for floating licenses.

February 2025

Debugger Tutorials – revamped and expanded

• The local Linux Debugger and WinDbg Debugger tutorials have been revamped for clarity and updated.

• A brand-new WinDbg Time Travel Debugging (TTD) tutorial has been added, covering installation, setup and essential commands.

License management command line options

The -Olicense command line switch is now documented as a part of the license manager.

January 2025

New Floating Licenses User Guide

We've introduced a Floating Licenses User Guide, that explains core concepts such as seats allocation, checking out, and borrowing licenses.

December 2024

Updated Porting Guides

With the recent changes to our API that came into life with SP1 for IDA 9.0, we updated Porting Guides for IDAPython and C++ SDK.

New IDAPython examples

With the new or reworked IDAPython examples that were added to our examples library, we revamped the examples categories to make the navigation among them more intuitive. Take a look at the new Working with types category for samples that utilize our updated Types endpoints.

Revamped IDAPython reference

We updated the UI layout of IDAPython Reference Documentation and improve cross-referencing.

November 2024

Other updates

• To reflect the current state of Local Types window as a one hub to all types-related operations, we updated the Subviews.

October 2024

With IDA 9.0, we changed how the Hex-Rays documentation is organized and added new guides and tutorials to kickstart your IDA journey and ease the migration from previous IDA versions.

New Structure

Our docs are divided into three main categories:

• User Guide, dedicated to individual users and covering whole IDA products (including add-ons, like Teams and Lumina). Most of the documentation regarding IDA, like manuals or tutorials, is currently accessible under the User Guide.

• Developer Guide, which focuses on developer's needs, covers the reference and contextual documentation for IDAPython API and C++ SDK, as well as native IDC language. This part is mainly dedicated to plugin authors and devs interested in enhancing basic IDA capabilities with our development kit or scripting.

• Admin Guide mainly focuses on administrators installing and managing servers for Teams and Lumina or floating licenses.

In Archive, we gathered docs with rather historical value that some of you may still find interesting but focused on previous versions of IDA.

New Getting Started Guides

We prepared a Getting Started section for IDA newbies and also gathered additional materials to help you find your way around our IDAPython API or IDA SDK.

Migration and Porting Guides

For those familiar with previous versions of IDA, we prepared Porting Guides for IDAPython and C++ SDK. If you use the Flexera server for floating licenses, check our Migration Guide for new Hex-Rays license server.

New features described

We added installation and setup guides for IDA Feeds plugin and idalib.