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Today, Hex-Rays announces the release of Service Pack 1 (SP1) for IDA 7.6. We are glad to announce the release of IDA 7.6 Service Pack 1 today! This Service Pack is primarily a bug fix release for a few errors that might affect some users. How to request the new versions As usual, the new versions are free […]
A rather nasty issue evaded our testing and found its way into IDA 7.6: using the PyQt5 modules that are shipped with IDA, QTreeView (or QTreeWidget) instances will always fail to display contents. E.g., the following script from PyQt5 import QtWidgets tree = QtWidgets.QTreeWidget() item = QtWidgets.QTreeWidgetItem() item.setText(0, “Test col#0”) tree.addTopLevelItem(item) tree.show() used to render like so: but now looks like this: The fix In order to solve this, […]
A handful of our users have already requested information regarding the Qt 5.6.3 build, that is shipped with IDA 7.6. Configure options Here are the options that were used to build the libraries on: Windows: …\5.6.3\configure.bat “-nomake” “tests” “-qtnamespace” “QT” “-confirm-license” “-accessibility” “-opensource” “-force-debug-info” “-platform” “win32-msvc2015” “-opengl” “desktop” “-prefix” “C:/Qt/5.6.3-x64” Note that you will have to build with Visual […]
The 2021 IDA training course will take place online from 10–14 and 17-19 May 2021, CEST time. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 situation, the world-class IDA Training course is taking place online for the second time from 10-14 and 17-19 May 2021 (CEST time). The course is devised to help professional reverse engineers master IDA […]
Today, Hex-Rays team is thrilled to announce the release of IDA version 7.6! Our top-notch binary analysis tool IDA Pro’s latest version delivers new features and various enhancements. With significantly-improved performance, version 7.6 is expected to certainly accelerate its users’ reverse-engineering experience. Here are the highlight features and changes introduced in IDA 7.6: Apple Silicon’s full support: The […]
IDA Pro for ARM64 is coming! We have ported all of IDA to run natively on Apple Silicon and it will be available in IDA 7.6. Initial analysis shows that the hype is real. IDA is consistently performing much faster on M1 macs: And a visual representation, for your viewing delight: https://www.hex-rays.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/split.mp4 We have also ported the mac […]
Python 3.9 has been released fairly recently and it was a bit too short notice for us to ensure it works with IDA 7.5 Service Pack 3 (if you have tried it, you may have had a bad time.) We have now added support for Python 3.9 in IDAPython. Here’s how you can get it to […]
Along with the release of Service Pack 3 for IDA 7.5, we have updated our XNU Debugging Tutorial with a new section about macOS11 kernel debugging. It has some analysis and debugging tips for the new kernelcache format in macOS11 Big Sur. We hope you will find it useful! Downloads XNU Debugging Tutorial […]
Hex-Rays announces the release of Service Pack 3 (SP3) for IDA Pro 7.5. It is glad to announce the release of the Service Pack 3 today. The release introduces a handful of new and interesting features specific to the soon-to-be-released macOS 11 (Big Sur) and provides fixes for numerous errors in IDA. We improved: macOS11 kernel debugging with […]
Today, Hex-Rays is excited to launch a special blog series where Igor, one of the experts behind IDA, will provide useful tips and functionalities of IDA that are not always known or less obvious to its users. The first episode of this blog series covers the most useful keyboard shortcuts that will certainly speed up your IDA experience. So, we […]