WhiteBox v0.96.0 has just been released!

The most obvious new features are in how it handles compiler flags, but there are major improvements and/or fixes to breaking issues in just about every part of the program.

WhiteBox v0.96.0

General UX improvements

• Disable WhiteBox flags via the command-line with -no-
• Help > Bug report auto-fills system details for GitHub Issue form
• Tooltips: fade-in & additional help
• Open installation folders directly from the welcome screen
• Restore previous window position
• Fix spamming error messages
• Fix assert from off-screen child window

Build/Run improvements

• Better diagnostics when functions/symbols can’t be compiled/found
• Catch abort in user code
• Fix dylib functions on Linux causing SEGV_MAPERR when called over multiple runs
• Fix subsequent edits failing to run on Linux
• Handle 0-length, unspecified-length, and “VLA” arrays
• Suppress Windows popup on user code asserts

Compiler preferences

• Compiler flags are now normal clang flags instead of -cc1 driver flags
• Add multiple profiles of different groups of compiler preferences
• Flags treated as if on the command line, instead of “1-per-line”
• Flag line comments
• Args groups can be disabled
• Resize arg input boxes
• Automatic rerun after changing arguments
• Fix DLL & object paths not getting saved to the database
• Fix DLL path crash
• Keep tabs always-visible

Function caller

• Disable/clear the function caller when the referred-to function is no longer present

Black Box

• Simplify “change” numbers
• Show available data after runs that exit-early
• Fix all black box vars being selected at once
• Fix crash on expanding black box vars
• Fix expanded/array view of returned pointers showing repeated value

Timeline

• Right-click menu now works on timeline as well as Data tree
• Desaturate <NO DATA> bars
• Reduce scroll-drift when zooming in/out
• Red bar after runs that exit-early

Plugins

• Fix Visual Studio 2022 install & connect
• Fix initialisation on Fedora
• Allow for multiple localhost sockets

Thanks to fafok29, HAT, wetSlug, shiv45, flysand and others for their detailed bug reports