Version 5.17.2 (2024-10-01 14:36:08)

• Improves reading symbols of frameworks,
• Improves how switch hints are displayed in the ASM.

Version 5.17.1 (2024-08-30 18:57:13)

• Provides a way to specify a multiplier when defining switch hints.
• Adds the multiplier as a formatting option for address differences.

Version 5.17.0 (2024-08-27 17:47:17)

• Show unicode strings in the comments.

Version 5.16.2 (2024-08-12 18:16:42)

• Fixes a crash on macOS 15.1 beta 1,
• Adds a shortcut to copy the current address.

Version 5.16.1 (2024-08-06 12:30:52)

• Improves detection of strings,
• Improves detection of hardened runtime on attach.

Version 5.16.0 (2024-07-16 15:25:04)

• Improves the detection of hardened runtime,
• Fixes the patches not being applied before launching the debugger.

Version 5.15.6 (2024-05-24 15:31:24)

• Fixes a crash on Intel computers.

Version 5.15.4 (2024-05-16 17:09:26)

• Fixes an issue where Hopper would hang on some mangled files improperly extracted from the DYLD shared cache.

Version 5.15.3 (2024-04-09 15:48:13)

• Improves compatibility with the latest versions of Python.

Version 5.15.0 (2024-03-26 17:56:24)

• Improves compatibility with DYLD shared cache of macOS 14.4 and later.

Version 5.14.3 (2024-03-11 12:55:18)

• Allows modifications of BSS sections,
• Fixes a compatibility issue with the latest version of Python (3.12).

Version 5.14.2 (2024-02-21 10:56:25)

• Improves compatibility with macOS 14.4 beta 3 and 4 DYLD shared cache.

Version 5.14.1 (2024-02-19 18:08:18)

• Improves the export of Objective-C header,
• Fixes a few issues in the C type parser.

Version 5.14.0 (2024-01-16 11:41:47)

• Adds a new command palette which allows to quickly navigate between menus, documents, symbols and strings,
• Improves detection of some weird ARM constructs for simulating a call instruction,
• Fixes a decompiler issue where some variable assignments were too aggressively optimised.

Version 5.13.5 (2023-12-12 17:11:03)

• Fixes some AArch64 vector instructions which were missing their register size suffixes,
• Fixes an issue with the Python API which prevented usage of some helper functions,
• Fixes a deadlock in the Linux version.

Version 5.13.4 (2023-11-08 11:55:11)

• Fixes a crash on startup on macOS 12 and earlier.

Version 5.13.3 (2023-11-07 17:41:07)

• Reduces the memory footprint of the BinDiff exporter,
• Proper handling or the ARMv8.5 extension,
• Fixes a crash when exporting BinDiff for some large files,
• Fixes disassembly of some vector instructions (aarch64).

Version 5.13.2 (2023-10-19 18:02:03)

• Fixes an issue in the propagation of no-return method.

Version 5.13.1 (2023-10-17 14:26:39)

• Improves BinDiff exports.

Version 5.13.0 (2023-10-10 17:33:57)

• Disassembles the Apple AMX extension instructions,
• Improves dead code removal in the decompiler,
• Fixes an issue when a conditional instruction was jumping to a no-return function,
• Improves how the method signature is computed from a C++ mangled name,
• Fixes m68k bit field instructions disassembly.

Version 5.12.0 (2023-09-14 16:53:20)

• Fixes a few issues when debugging a GDB remote target.

Version 5.11.7 (2023-08-26 16:21:14)

• Drastically reduce the memory footprint on very large binaries during the analysis.

Version 5.11.6 (2023-08-04 19:17:47)

• Fixes the display of pseudo-string arguments for big endian CPU,
• Cleans up the code for license and update plan purchases.

Version 5.11.5 (2023-07-19 19:14:58)

• Improves the handling of newer DYLD caches, especially symbols reading,
• Works around a bug in macOS Sonoma beta which prevents large documents from being properly displayed.

Version 5.11.4 (2023-07-10 16:49:01)

• Improves the responsiveness of the address list,
• Fixes a dead lock when resizing the address list when the procedure list was displayed and a background analysis was running.

Version 5.11.3 (2023-06-29 17:35:17)

• Improves M68k XREF computation,
• Fixes the Fedora package.

Version 5.11.2 (2023-06-29 10:43:53)

• Fixes a crash in the M68k CPU plugin.

Version 5.11.1 (2023-06-14 19:00:33)

• Adds Python method for bookmarks handling,
• Fixes the Python prompt for accepting unterminated commands,
• Refinements on 6502 and M68k CPU plugins.

Version 5.11.0 (2023-05-23 13:43:18)

• Provides a useful error message when the assembler fails,
• Highlights the path that will be taken when the program counter reaches a conditional jump instruction in the debugger,
• Adds initial support for Motorola 680x0 CPUs,
• Adds support for Amiga executables and raw ADF,
• Fixes a potential deadlock when exporting assembly or pseudo-code,
• Fixes an issue when assembling TBZ / TBNZ instructions.

Version 5.10.0 (2023-05-05 11:26:13)

• Adds support for iOS and macOS Kernel Caches (only the ones that are not encrypted),
• Slightly improve the disassembly of some bit shifting ARMv7 instructions.

Version 5.9.0 (2023-04-20 19:13:10)

• Fixes an issue when decompiling conditional ARM instructions using the LS condition,
• Improves the disassembly of ARM instructions using an imm12 encoded field.

Version 5.8.8 (2023-03-17 17:14:04)

• Improves Apple Silicon decompilation,
• Fixes an issue which prevented Hopper from decrypting some of the Intel system binaries on Apple Silicon.

Version 5.8.7 (2023-03-07 20:20:14)

• Improves switch / case detection,
• Improves no-return function detection,
• Fixes a crash when exporting BinDiff databases.

Version 5.8.6 (2023-02-03 18:24:21)

• Exports more symbols from the DYLD shared cache,
• Improves the time needed to extract a file from the DYLD shared cache,
• Fixes some colors used for texts on Linux which were not readable on dark themes.

Version 5.8.5 (2023-01-16 17:24:23)

• Improves the preferences window,
• Handles some third party mouses for navigating backward / forward using dedicated buttons.

Version 5.8.4 (2022-12-21 17:33:38)

• Provides a way to identify some Windows functions imported by ordinal.

Version 5.8.3 (2022-12-09 17:01:36)

• Fixes a crash when parsing Swift metadata on ciphered files.

Version 5.8.1 (2022-12-03 13:58:10)

• Fixes a layout issue with tabs,
• Fixes an issue where the decompiler would generate incoherent goto statements,
• Adds a way to prevent loading user plugins if a plugin make Hopper crash at startup to prevent a crash loop.

Version 5.8.0 (2022-11-18 17:57:17)

• First iteration on loading Swift metadata. Retrieved information can be found as comments in the dedicated sections,
• Improves the handling of the new DYLD shared caches, and especially symbols,
• Fixes a crash when exporting pseudo-code containing very large methods.

Version 5.7.8 (2022-11-07 16:25:18)

• Adds a way to define environment variables in the debugger,
• Adds an option to displays the hex column in the debugger when PC / RIP is outside of the main binary file,
• Allows one to define struct containing relative pointers,
• Fixes an issue with Python scripts not being updated when edited outside of Hopper,
• Better parses some Objective-C sections,
• Fixes a crash when trying to read an old DYLD shared cache from iOS 3.

Version 5.7.7 (2022-09-09 17:12:49)

• Fixes loading older dyld caches.

Version 5.7.6 (2022-09-03 01:18:55)

• Fixes a crash while loading an Intel DYLD shared cache.

Version 5.7.5 (2022-09-02 21:30:03)

• Makes Hopper compatible with iOS 16 DYLD shared caches,
• Improves extraction of files from DYLD shared caches.

Version 5.7.4 (2022-07-29 16:17:02)

• Improves the detection of ARMv7EM binaries,
• Improves the loading of malicious Mach-O executables with a symbol table modified by hand,
• Improves the loading of DLL files targetting platforms other than Windows,
• Fixes an issue where only the first references to an address were listed in the inspector,
• Fixes a crash for some files extracted from a DYLD shared cache.

Version 5.7.3 (2022-07-20 17:54:11)

• Fixes an issue with the hex editor for files extracted from a FAT binary,
• Adds an option in the "go to" dialog for jumping at a local or a global (i.e., in the original container) file offset.

Version 5.7.2 (2022-07-19 10:33:21)

• Fixes a crash when disassembling some variants of the LD1 AArch64 instruction.

Version 5.7.1 (2022-07-18 17:23:55)

• Fixes missing operands for some vector AArch64 instructions,
• Fixes a few issues introduced by the Python 3 migration on functions like readBytes.

Version 5.7.0 (2022-07-08 16:54:15)

• Improves the decompilation of Objective-C programs extracted from the DYLD cache,
• Fixes the display of 32-bit operands formatted as a float.

Version 5.6.1 (2022-06-29 17:46:54)

• Improves DYLD cache path discovery on macOS Ventura,
• Slightly improves the decompiler output,
• Fixes a crash on multi-display systems when the computer was awakened,
• Fixes conditional jump instructions on the PowerPC plugin.

Version 5.6.0 (2022-05-31 12:51:35)

• Adds a decompiler's option which removes (almost) all GOTO statements. This is still considered as beta as it introduces a lot of temporary variables.
• Adds a way to change the fields order of a structure, a union or an enum.
• Adds a way to change the arguments order of a method signature.
• Fixes an issue with the disassembly of the CCMP instruction (AArch64).

Version 5.5.3 (2022-04-15 18:02:44)

• Improves loading of ARMv8 ELF binaries by handling more relocation types.

Version 5.5.2 (2022-03-24 23:36:08)

• Fixes a crash in the DYLD cache loader introduced in 5.5.1.

Version 5.5.1 (2022-03-24 21:48:04)

• Adds a tooltip when hovering a truncated name in the list of symbols,
• Improves the demangling of Swift symbols,
• Fixes an issue which would prevent some Objective-C protocols from being read from a DYLD shared cache,
• Improves keyboard navigation in the executable selection dialog.

Version 5.5.0 (2022-03-22 19:08:11)

• Allows enum types to have a base type in the type editor,
• Adds a quick way to load a library from the current DYLD cache,
• Improves the executable dialogs in order to ease navigation with the keyboard.

Version 5.4.0 (2022-03-03 18:00:52)

• Adds support for BinDiff: you can export a BinExport file to be used with BinDiff, and import back a BinDiff database,
• Fixes misidentified AArch64e binaries in FAT archives.

Version 5.3.4 (2022-01-27 17:07:24)

• Speed improvement for the dataflow analysis,
• Fixes the tool for installing a license for multiple local account for people owing Computer Licenses.

Version 5.3.3 (2022-01-20 18:11:53)

• More debugger fixes.

Version 5.3.2 (2022-01-20 13:13:31)

• Fixes a crash in the debugger.

Version 5.3.1 (2022-01-06 20:06:14)

• Improves detection of no-return functions,
• Adds a way to choose the entries' size of a switch / case table,
• Fixes an issue when creating procedures using PAC.

Version 5.3.0 (2021-12-23 18:17:50)

• Updates Capstone to a more recent version,
• Fixes a crash when rebasing a MachO binary without chained fixups.

Version 5.2.0 (2021-12-04 18:29:35)

• Handles the new iOS15 / macOS 12 chained fixups pointers.

Version 5.1.4 (2021-11-26 18:47:22)

• Fixes an issue where argument analysis was not seeing some instructions.

Version 5.1.3 (2021-11-25 20:40:51)

• Improves detection of methods' argument, and the signature editor.

Version 5.1.2 (2021-11-23 14:43:52)

• Uses the same limit as the one defined in the preferences when exporting pseudo-code,
• Fixes an issue preventing users to re-download the latest version associated to their license.

Version 5.1.1 (2021-11-18 19:54:59)

• Updates Sparkle to version 1.27.1,
• Fixes a crash on malformed Mach-O files,
• Fixes multiple memory leaks.

Version 5.1.0 (2021-11-16 16:16:44)

• Fixes a parsing issue of bogus exception tables generated by GCC,
• Fixes an issue with Mach-O relocations,
• Fixes an issue where it was impossible to read a previously saved document containing too many entrypoints.

Version 5.0.0 (2021-10-28 18:49:44)

• Fixes a crash in the debugger when logging was enabled,
• Improves overral macOS Monterey compatibility,
• Improves detection of a newly added update plan.

Version 4.9.6 (2021-10-26 18:07:25)

• Fixes a deadlock which may happen when a document was closed.

Version 4.9.5 (2021-10-26 12:44:47)

• Fixes a crash when loading an old DYLD shared caches (iOS 13 and before),
• Fixes a weird behaviour of the registration window which was disabling keyboard shortcuts in some situations.

Version 4.9.4 (2021-10-22 16:51:37)

• Fixes the loading of iOS application bundles downloaded from M1 Macs,
• Improves method signature detection for some Swift internal methods,
• Fixes a few issues with some dialogs when types contained some very long names.

Version 4.9.3 (2021-10-13 17:24:38)

• Fixes an issue in the ARM debugger where SP value was displayed instead of PC value,
• Fixes the drawing of ARM instructions when PC value is outside of the application memory space,
• Removes all usages of the deprecated WebKit classe.

Version 4.9.2 (2021-09-21 17:26:40)

• Fixes an issue where selectors were not properly displayed in pseudo-code of methods extracted from a DYLD cache,
• Fixes an issue where the wrong symbol name would be displayed on executables extracted from an Apple Silicon DYLD cache.

Version 4.9.0 (2021-09-14 15:47:43)

• Fixes loading of the new dyld shared cache,
• Fixes issues with the Objective-C metadata of Apple Silicon binaries.

Version 4.8.2 (2021-08-06 23:09:32)

• Adds an hexadecimal view in the data inspector of the hex editor mode,
• Adds a Python method to rebase a document from a script,
• Fixes a bug in the rebase dialog,
• Fixes the toolbar on macOS 10.13.

Version 4.8.1 (2021-07-22 19:05:17)

• Automatic selection of the best Python interpreter.

Version 4.8.0 (2021-07-21 17:36:28)

• Initial support for the new DYLD shared cache of macOS Monterey,
• Switch to Python 3.

Version 4.7.7 (2021-06-09 17:58:39)

• Faster drawing which improves scrolling in bug documents,
• Improves the creation of pointer differences tables,
• Fixes a crash at launch on macOS 12 beta 1,
• Fixes a crash for some Windows binaries.

Version 4.7.6 (2021-05-10 16:16:58)

• Fixes an infinite loop on some Windows executables,
• Fixes a rare crash when using Hopper inside a virtual machine.

Version 4.7.5 (2021-04-29 15:58:48)

• Fixes an issue with dSYM loader.

Version 4.7.4 (2021-04-14 23:02:30)

• Fixes a crash when loading some files from the DYLD cache,
• Fixes an issue when loading additional binaries,
• Adds some more information on cross references in the inspector panel,
• Adds a way to restrict searching text only in user comments.

Version 4.7.3 (2021-03-31 18:50:27)

• Improves loading time of big files.

Version 4.7.2 (2021-03-23 18:23:04)

• Improves the detection of some no-return functions,
• Speeds-up the reconstruction of procedures when a signature changes in one of the callees,
• Fixes a few decompilation issues,
• Fixes a crash when the Hopper windows was moved accros multiple screens on some systems,
• Adds methods to create alignment directive from Python scripts,
• Fixes a crash for some Python scripts which were changing some labels names in the document.

Version 4.7.1 (2021-01-23 15:51:43)

• Fixes an issue in the C++ demangler for some symbols,
• Uses theme preferences for the label list,
• Fixes horizontal scrolling issues.

Version 4.7.0 (2020-12-14 16:15:48)

• Fixes some ARMv8.1 instructions.

Version 4.6.3 (2020-12-01 17:10:33)

• Fixes a crash for some elements of the DYLD cache of iOS 14.

Version 4.6.2 (2020-11-12 14:45:10)

• Fixes the debugger which was unable to launch some old binaries.

Version 4.6.1 (2020-11-04 15:59:24)

• Fixes a crash in the decompiler when rewriting conditional expressions.

Version 4.6.0 (2020-11-03 16:15:07)

Warning: This version drops support for macOS 10.9 to 10.12.
The new minimum requirement is now macOS 10.13.
What's new:

• First Apple Silicon release,
• Support for AArch64 debugger,
• Support for macOS Big Sur,
• Improves Objective-C metadata parsing,
• Improves DYLD Shared Cache parsing,
• Adds an option to deal with PAC pointers on Apple Silicon binaries,
• Many improvements and fixes.

Version 4.5.29 (2020-06-19 14:13:13)

• Fixes an issue when compiling the SDK examples with the latest Xcode,
• Fixes an issue with the comment editor,
• Improves the import / export sheets in order to better see the results.

Version 4.5.28 (2020-05-13 13:05:34)

• Fixes a hang in the decompiler on methods from classes containing weak ivars.

Version 4.5.26 (2020-05-04 11:12:54)

• Fixes a decompilation issue on ivar,
• Improves HiDPI support on Linux.

Version 4.5.25 (2020-04-30 10:52:31)

• Fixes a drawing issue on some systems,
• Fixes a mistake in the SDK.

Version 4.5.24 (2020-04-17 18:49:07)

• Fixes parsing of Objective-C metadata for binaries targeting the iOS simulator,
• Fixes a crash while navigating small binaries with keyboard,
• Fixes issues with addressing mode decoding of MOS 6502 instructions,
• Added an Oric TAP loader.

Version 4.5.23 (2020-04-06 18:52:22)

• Improves decompilation of ivar access of Objective-C programs,
• Fixes a few issues with controls alignment and dark mode.

Version 4.5.22 (2020-03-16 21:07:37)

• Fixes a crash when one modifies a structure referenced in the assembly,
• Fixes issues when searching hexadecimal values,
• Various dark mode issues.

Version 4.5.21 (2020-02-05 16:46:57)

• More ELF relocation fixes.

Version 4.5.20 (2020-02-04 17:02:09)

• Fixes issues with relocations when loading Linux kernel modules,
• Adds methods to create or remove segments from Python scripts.

Version 4.5.19 (2019-11-19 17:15:44)

• Adds a way to add new segments for representing memory mapped area.

Version 4.5.18 (2019-11-04 15:18:40)

• Fixes a loading issue of iOS 12+ binaries using threaded binding.

Version 4.5.17 (2019-10-25 23:41:07)

• Handles endbr32 and endbr64 instructions,
• Adds a few methods to handle arrays in Python API,
• Improved Mach-O header information,
• Improves command line tool,
• Fixes a crash in the C++ name demangler,
• Fixes a crash on ARM64.

Version 4.5.16 (2019-09-18 13:45:00)

• Adds IPA file loader (note: ciphered IPA taken from the AppStore will still be ciphered, obviously...),
• Fixes an issue with contextual right mouse menu not targeting the right document,
• Fixes memory leaks.