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PE Explorer: Version History

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Legend:
+ new feature
* improvement/modification or bugfix

1.99 R6 (10/14/2009)
General:
* PE Explorer is now Windows 7 Ready.
* Now PE Explorer reports an error when trying to open 64-bit files.
Support for 64-bit files will only be available in version 2.
* .MUI (Multilingual User Interface) file extension added to the Open
File type list.
* Minor tweaks and improvements.
Resource editor:
+ Added the options to create the Windows 7 Compatibility and DPI-Aware
sections in the Manifest Wizard.
* Bugfix: Windows Vista was occasionally unable to recognize the resourc
es
in files manifested by PE Explorer.
* Bugfix: The conflict with third-party applications on Windows XP SP3.
* Minor tweaks.
Disassembler:
+ Added the options to mark blocks as Byte, Word, DWord, QWord and GUID.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
* Minor update.
1.99 R5 (10/28/2008)
General:
* Bugfix: Fixed UI errors under Windows Vista.
* Bugfix: Fixed occasional deadlock when quiting PE Explorer.
* Minor tweaks and improvements.
Headers Info Viewer:
+ Added the Characteristics Editor to view or set flag bits
in the Characteristics field.
Relocation Viewer:
* Bugfix: Relocations would not be displayed in files which
had sections following the Relocation section.
Resource editor:
* An option to specify the processor architecture in the
Manifest Wizard.
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occurred when the last item of
a menu to be edited was a separator.
1.99 R4 (07/28/2008)
General:
+ Added the option to save the Headers Info, Data Directories
and Section Headers View to a text file.
 * Improved opening of huge files (of 1 Gb or larger).
* Bugfix: PE Explorer reported negative values for the total
physical memory under Vista SP1.
* Minor tweaks.
Resource editor:
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occasionally occurred when
editing menus.
1.99 R3 (06/05/2008)
General:
* Added the Reload Last Opened File button.
* Minor tweaks and improvements.
Section Headers Viewer:
* Added the Delete/Undelete Section buttons.
* Bugfix: Sections could not be deleted.
Resource editor:
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that caused PE Explorer to unexpectedly
shut down when saving multiple resources at once.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
+ Now supports for UPX v3.03.
* Minor improvements.
1.99 R2 (08/17/2007)
General:
+ Added the NsPack Unpacker plug-in.
* Bugfix: PE Explorer would occasionally raise an exception on
startup if the logfile was corrupted.
* Minor tweaks and improvements.
Resource editor:
* Bugfix: when displaying multilingual StringTables the string
indices would be displayed incorrectly.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
+ Now supports for UPX v3.01.
+ Now supports for LZMA compression method.
+ Now supports for scrambled files originally compressed by UPX v3.01.
* Minor improvements.
1.99 (05/02/2007)
General:
+ Added the Digital Signature Viewer.
* Now prompts to remove missing files from the Recent File list.
* Minor tweaks and improvements.
Section Headers Viewer:
+ Now supports creating a resource section in files that don't
contain a resource table.
* Bugfix: Fixed errors that occurred when saving files with the
first section of zero length.
Resource editor:
+ Now supports replacing large (256x256) Vista icons stored as .ICO
 with an icon from a PNG file.
+ Manifest Wizard now supports adding a trust info section to mark
a pre-Vista application with a requested execution level.
* Bugfix: The newly created manifest resource could not be deleted.
1.98 R5 (11/15/2006)
General:
* Now PE Explorer is Vista Ready. Fixed issues with Thumbnail
Preview and Flip 3D.
* Bugfix: Failed to maintain the maximum log size and the number
of files available in the Recent Files submenu from session to
session.
* Bugfix: Fixed minor memory leaks.
* Other minor bugfixes and improvements.
Resource editor:
* Bugfix: The search dialog didn't get minimized when minimizing
PE Explorer.
* Bugfix: The dialog preview window stayed on top when switching
to another application.
* Bugfix: Visual Studio gave an incorrect format error on some
dialogs in files saved out of PE Explorer.
1.98 R4 (09/01/2006)
General:
+ Added the WinUpack/Upack Unpacker plug-in.
* Improved detection of files with non-standard PE headers.
* Bugfix: PE Explorer occasionally hangs on startup on some
systems (the splash screen is displayed and then hangs in there).
Disassembler:
+ Added the options to save and load the disassembly listing and all
the changes made to continue on later.
+ Added the shortcut key to switch between the Disassembler and the
main PE Explorer window.
* Bugfix: Displaying addresses in the View tabs didn't work.
* Other minor bugfixes.
Export Viewer:
+ Added the button to jump to a selected address in the Disassembler.

1.98 R3 (07/07/2006)
Disassembler:
* Bugfix: Attempting to disassemble a file with damaged
imports/relocations causes an error.
* Other minor bugfixes.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
+ Now supports unpacking of files packed with a number of
UPX scramblers: Advanced UPX Scrambler, UPoLyX, UPX Lock,
UPX Mutanter, UPX Scrambler, UPX SHIT.
1.98 R2 (05/02/2006)
* Bugfix: Attempting to view the raw data for a section
occaissionally causes an access violation.
 * Bugfix: The dialog editor didn't allow editing dialogs
in Windows Mobile 5 files.
* Bugfix: Replacing an icon resource with one from a file
causes an error.
* Bugfix: Attempting to play an .AVI resource occaissionally
causes an error.
* Bugfix: Displaying a resource as hex dump occaissionally
causes an error.
* Bugfix: Fixed an issue with the numbers on the numeric keypad.
* Bugfix: Fixed errors that occaissionally occurred when editing
a Delphi Image List (the image transparency no longer worked,
the picture appeared as a monochrome bitmap).
* Other minor bugfixes and improvements.
1.98 (12/01/2005)
Resource editor:
+ Now supports viewing and replacing large (256x256) Vista
icons stored as PNGs.
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occaissionally occurred when
displaying a resource as hex dump.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
* Now supports unpacking of programs packed with the obsolete
early versions of UPX (prior to 0.80).
* Now attempts to recover a file, even when an original PE file
header entry is no longer available after unpacking.
Data Directories:
* Added the Set to Zero button to make removing a pointer easier.
Disassembler:
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occaissionally occurred when
searching for an offset to fields in the VCL objects.
* Other minor improvements.
1.97 (04/25/2005)
General:
+ Added the Favorite Files menu item to display a list
of favorite files for easy access.
Disassembler:
* Bugfix: The search command didn't start at the current line
of the code when reversing the direction of the search.
* Other minor bug fixes.
Resource editor:
+ Now supports editing Dialog Data (string values only).
* Now supports viewing and editing Bitmaps contained in binary
streams (previously PE Explorer failed to find the needed
resources in programs written in Borland Delphi & C++ Builder).
1.96 (11/01/2004)
Disassembler:
+ Added the option to save the disassemly listing with
opcodes and addresses.
+ Added the option to save the Strings List Tab View to
a text file.
 + Added the option to save the VCL Methods Tab View to
a text file.
* Upgraded algorithms and methods resulting in:
- Better Unicode Strings detection.
- Better compiler version detection for programs written
in Borland Delphi & C++ Builder.
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occaissionally occurred
when searching for VCL object names.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
* Now all versions of UPX are supported from 0.8x up to 1.92.
1.95 (06/14/2004)
General:
+ Added the Remove Debug Information Tool.
+ Added the Remove Relocations Tool.
Disassembler:
+ Now supports the SSE3 instruction set.
* Upgraded the algorithm for detecting Unicode strings.
* Improved the data analysis algorithm to produce a higher
quality disassembly listing.
Resource editor:
* Bugfix: TypeLibs in the multi-language resources would
occassionally display incorrectly.
1.94 (10/20/2003)
Resource editor:
+ Now supports editing Accelerators.
Disassembler:
+ Now supports the SSE2 instruction set.
General:
* Now supports opening files with modified MS-DOS stubs.
* Now saves charset settings when customizing font.
UPX Unpacker plug-in:
* Added support for NRV2E_LE32 compression method. Now all versions
of UPX are supported from 0.8x up to 1.90.
* Now supports unpacking files with modified UPX headers.
1.93 (06/16/2003)
Resource editor:
+ Now supports searching for strings in string resources.
+ XML files can now be displayed and edited.
Disassembler:
+ Added ability to search the Quick View tabs in the Disassembler window
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General:
* Added ability to set the default Viewer at startup.
* Date/Time displayed in the Log window can be turned off.
1.92 (04/24/2003)
 Resource editor:
* Bugfix: Fixed an error that occurred when modifying ImageLists
built with Delphi 7.
* Bugfix: The icon viewer would occaissionally display large icons
incorrectly.
General:
* Minor changes to the user interface.
* Bugfix: The UPX Unpacker plug-in would occaissionally display
resource names incorrectly.
1.91 (01/20/2003)
Resource editor:
+ Now supports editing DFM (Borland Delphi/Builder forms).
* Bugfix: Pasting to and from the clipboard in the dialog, menu
and text modes was repaired again.
* Bugfix: The UPX Unpacker plug-in would occaissionally display
resource names incorrectly.
Disassembler:
+ Now displays opcode values as part of the listing.
+ Now supports copying selected text from the disassembly listing
to the clipboard.
+ Added the Strings Quick View Tab.
+ Added the VCL Methods Quick View Tab (for Borland Delphi/Builder).
+ Added 4 new views for displaying selected addresses from the
disassembly listing. These views support quick swapping with the
main disassembly listing.
+ Now supports renaming labels and adding comments.
+ Added the option to find references to the current location.
* Improved the look of the Disassembly Listing Window by color
coding different sections.
* Doubleclicking an address in the listing window brings that
address into focus (like pressing Enter before).
* The Go To Next and Go To Previous buttons on the toolbar can be
used to navigate through the history of selected addresses.
* Verticle line spacing and the number of displayed opcode bytes can
be adjusted.
General:
+ Added drag and drop support.
* Bugfix: Filenames were always saved in lowercase - repaired.

1.90 (09/16/2002)
Resource editor:
+ Now supports replacing non-standard resources in a file:
typelibs, cab, MIDI, custom resources and more.
+ Now extracts Borland VCL images (ImageList & Bitmap) at
a 24 bit color depth.
* Bugfix: Pasting to and from the clipboard in the dialog,
menu and text modes was repaired.
* Bugfix: Fixed minor syntax errors in saved *.rc files.
Disassembler:
+ Upgraded algorithms and methods resulting in:
Faster disassembly times. Disassembly is now 10 times
 faster with most files.
Higher quality sourcecode listings with fewer
misinterpretations of data.
All Borland Delphi and Builder types and objects are
detected correctly.
System libraries can now be disassembled without errors.
+ Added the option to verify offsets.
+ Added the option to analyze unprocessed data.
+ Now supports the SSE instruction set.
Dependency Scanner:
+ Added the option to automatically refresh the scan when the
window is reopened.
General:
* Improved Export Entry processing speed. Libraries with 1000+
export functions open significantly faster.
* Bugfix: Fixed minor memory and resource leaks.

1.81 (06/12/2002)
Resource editor:
+ PNG files can now be displayed and replaced.

1.80 (04/29/2002)
General:
+ Added the TimeDateStamp Adjuster Tool.
+ Added support for unmangling overloaded C++ function names
for files built with Borland and Microsoft compilers in the
Syntax Lookup.
+ Added option to create backup files to the Customize dialog.
* Bugfix: Empty folders were being created when saving multiple
resources at once.

1.70 (03/10/2002)
Resource editor:
+ Added ability to detect HTML and PNG file types.
+ Added the Delete/Undelete Resource feature.
+ Added ability to numerically adjust a control position and
size when editing a dialog.
* Improved Icon and Bitmap detection algorithm when showing
dialogs (previously PE Explorer failed to find the needed
resources on occasion).
Disassembler:
* Listing Window is now flicker free.
* Bugfix: Fixed a List Index Out Of Bound error that occurred
when fitting small disassembly listings into the Listing Window.
General:
+ Added the Undecorate C++ function names feature in the Syntax
Lookup.
* The Open/Save dialogs are resizeable now.
* Bugfix: Fixed the Syntax Editor window size.
* Bugfix: Fixed a memory access error that caused PE Explorer to
 unexpectedly shut down on occassion.

1.60 (11/15/2001)
Resource editor:
* Added changes to the output format used for writing ImageLists.
* Bugfix: Modified files would be inoperable when non-terminated
Unicode text strings were present.
General:
* PE Explorer is now resizable! Control positions are maintained
from session to session.
* The color and font for ListViews, TreeViews and RichText Edit
Controls is now customizable.

1.50 (10/12/2001)
Resource editor:
+ Windows XP Visual Style Manifest Wizard.
+ Save Multiple Resources at Once.
+ Version Info Editor.
Disassembler:
+ Several new disassembly options.
+ Added support for new Delphi 6 object types to the VCL object
search and detect algorithm.
* Improved the data analysis algorithm to produce a higher quality
sourcecode listing.
* Improved compiler version detection for programs written in Borland
Delphi & C++ Builder.

General:
+ Several Customization options - including font face and size
selection, background color settings and user selected project
directories and log file settings.
+ Plug-ins manager.
+ UPX Unpacker plug-in.

1.40 (08/01/2001)
Resource editor:
+ The TypeLib data format can now detected and displayed (classes,
interfaces, properties, etc).
+ Message Tables can now be edited.
+ Animated Cursors can now be displayed and replaced.
+ Animated Gifs can now be played.
+ Rich Text Format can now detected and edited.
+ Windows Meta Files can now be detected and replaced (.wmf only).
+ Dialog Data can now be detected and displayed (string values only).
+ ToolBars can now be detected and displayed.
+ Executable formats (PE/LE/NE) can now be detected.
+ Added Borland Delphi 6 compatibility.
* SysDateTimePick32 and ToolbarWindow32 classes are now displayed
correctly when viewing/editing a dialog.
* Bugfix: A bad pointer to the Directory Name would result in losing
 names and resources if there was a Named Directory listed first in
the resource list.
Headers Info:
+ The Entry Point value can now be modified using automatic range
checking, provided the new value falls within the permissable range.
Disassembler:
+ Disassembly time for Borland VCL executables is reduced up to 25%!
+ Objects found in Borland VCL executables can be saved immediately
after the preload step.
+ Improved the algorithm for working with Borland VCL files. Objects
stored in DLLs are now detected correctly in most cases.
+ The Name List and the Problems and Messages List can now be saved.
+ Search options for searching through the disassembly listing and
the Name List.
+ A list of jumps is maintained for easier navigation through the
disassembly listing.
+ Quickly jump to a selected lable value using a mouse context menu
or Enter.
+ Splitters and scrollbars added.
+ The Disassembler main window, the splitters, the infoforms and the
object table fields all retain their positions from your most recent
PE Explorer session.
Data Directory Viewer:
* Bugfix: Errors detected in the resources when opening a file (Safe
Mode) would result in not being able to save a new image.
General:
* Bugfix: The accelerator keys misfunctioned for the menus under Win95/N
T.
* Bugfix: Occaissionally menus would resize to the entire screen width.
* Bugfix: Occaissionally the splash screen would stall on Windows 2000
installations because of the following instruction:
SendMessage(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_FONTCHANGE, 0, 0);
Apparently, Windows 2000 sometimes has trouble checking the message queue.
1.30 (06/18/2001)
+ Support for opening a file from the command line.
+ Integration with the Clipboard (copy/paste).
+ Changing Font properties in the Dialog Editor.
* Added shortcuts for SpeedButtons.
* Fixed:
- Working with ImageList for Borland Delphi 2/3.
- Algorithm for verifying sections alignment on the FileAlignment
boundary.
- Working with Unicode Strings in the Resource Viewer/Editor.
- Algorithm for searching in the resource tree (sped up 1000 times!).
1.20 (05/07/2001)
+ Quick Function Syntax Lookup - displays the calling syntax for
exported/imported functions.
+ Syntax description editor - for adding custom comments, altering
values or creating new library description.
+ Dependency Scanner - recursively scans all modules linked to by a
particular PE file.
* Fixed a bug in the Resource viewer: when displaying Borland VCL
 objects the value for strings would occassionally display
incorrectly.
1.01 (03/23/2001)
* Fixed a bug which raised an error when compiling resources:
occasionally the resource names would be lost.
* Fixed a bug which raised an exception when aborting disassembly.
* The improved algorithm of working with big number (500 and more)
of items in the resource tree.
* Changes to the user interface for easy accessability.

1.00 (02/23/2001)
+ The Section Editor - now you can edit, repair and restore the damaged
section headers.
+ The Resource Editor - easy-to-use visual editing features let you
quickly modify the resources without writing any scripts.
+ Opening file in Safe Mode - now you can open and explore even broken
or packed files.
+ The Plug-ins System - now you can write your own custom plug-ins to
perform any startup processing (for unpacking or whatever).
* The improved algorithm of access to internal structures of PE files.
* A lot of small but useful enhancements.
* Some pretty changes to the user interface.
* Some bugs were caught and fixed (thanks to all who helped testing
the beta versions).

Beta versions history:

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build 0.90 New features added to Resource Viewer:
- Menu and Dialogs visualization,
- Accelerators and Message Table support,
- Autorecognition of Unicode Text and CAB. Displaying info
about CAB contents.
Added the Delay Import Viewer.
The Characteristics Editor added to the Section Headers Viewer.
Fixed a bug which raised an exception when obtaining debug info.
Some changes to the user interface.

build 0.80 Added detailed analysis of form contents (for Borland) with
possibility to navigate easily through objects and save their
contents (Image Lists, Strings List, Glyphs, Bitmaps etc).
Compiler version determination (Standard Version / Professional
Version / Client/Server Suite (Enterprise)) for Borland products.
Minor changes to the user interface.
build 0.70 initial public beta release (October 3, 2000)