This release is mostly about UI improvements:

• Dell DVAR parser output now looks more consistent with previous NVRAM parsers
• Added "Copy item name" action, which is helpful when the name is obtained from GUID database, not UI section
• Added "Expand/collapse whole section" actions for better control of the visibility of expandable tree items
• Added "Hash / Hash body / Hash uncompressed" menu that calculates a chosen hash over the selected whole item / item body / item uncompressed data, shows a message box with that hash, and copies it into the clipboard.
• Several small bugfixes here and there

Thanks to @YangGangUEFI, @Ykidia, @MarsDoge, @cyrozap and @kocoman1 for their contributions to this release.

Another release, another new Kaitai-based parser for a vendor variable format - Dell DVAR. Those variables don't usually have names, and use hexadecimal IDs instead, but it still can be useful to see which of them are valid and which are marked as deleted already.

Other changes:

• added support for unpacking yet another Microsoft-specific LZMA section
• added support for InsydeFlashMap revision 4
• improved Intel Microcode parsing (as Intel added new fields to the header)
• added info on FFS volume block map (thanks to @Ykidia)
• added tracking of recently opened files (thanks to @Ykidia)
• fixed minor bugs (thanks to @Ykidia and @yangfl)
• macOS build of UEFITool is now developer-signed (thanks to @vit9696)
• updated built-in GUID database

This is a major release that marks an important milestone in moving from hand-crafted parsers to ones generated from KaitaiStruct declarative DSL: all NVRAM parsers are now Kaitai-based.

Other improvements:

• macOS applications are now ad-hoc signed to make modern macOS hate them less (thanks to @vit9696)
• added support for Insyde H2O FlashDeviceMap and new kind of protected ranges that are stored in that flash area
• updated GUID database
• updated copyright years and program authors for UEFITool
• added support for detecting FFS volumes inside NVRAM volume (thanks to @platomav for finding a sample file and filing an issue)

Minor release before including bigger changes:

• common
  -- fixed a minor findPattern bug (thanks to @vit9696)
  -- updated LZMA SDK to 24.09
  -- updated zlib to 1.3.1
  -- added several missing JEDEC IDs
  -- updated GUID database
• UEFITool
  -- updated QHexView5 to the latest version
  -- fixed and issue with program icon not being displayed on Wayland desktops (thanks to @Integral-Tech)
• UEFIExtract
  -- added support for extracting uncompressed data for items that have both compressed and uncompressed bodies (thanks to @platomav)

Bugfix release with minor fixes to several regressions in A67, minor parsing improvements and typo fixes, and updates to GUID database.

Changes:

• new GUID database generated by Linux Vendor Firmware Service, about 3x larger than before, major thanks to @hughsie.

Fixes:

• workaround for MAX_PATH limitation for UEFIExtract in Windows (requires Windows 10 1607 or newer OS version, and a registry change), thanks to @NikolajSchlej.
• fix for CI/CD pipeline to generate proper Windows x86 builds for UEFIExtract and UEFIFind (they were secretly x64 for several past releases), thanks to @NikolajSchlej.

Changes:

• New guids command for UEFIExtract and an update to default extraction modes to include generation of known GUID database (pairs of GUID/String that can be collected from the input file), thanks to @NikolajSchlej.
• Update to Qt 6.5.0 (LTS) brough seamless cross-platform UI dark mode support, and proper handling of UI mode update, thanks to @NikolajSchlej.
• QHexEdit2 widget replaced by QHexView5 for Hex View window. The new widget looks nicer in HiDPI and natively supports dark UI mode. Thanks to @Dax89 for creating it and @NikolajSchlej for integration work.

Fixes:

• lots of small fixes for issues found by fuzzing, thanks to @yeggor and @NikolajSchlej
• small update to built-in GUID database, thanks to @Tody-Guo

A bugfix release, with huge thanks to all the people that reported those new bugs.

New features:

• Replaced AMI NVAR parser with KaitaiStruct-based one. This is another step towards "minimize manual parsing" goal stated by rewriting FIT/ACM/BootGuard parsers in KS, other NVRAM-related parsers will follow in the next updates.
• Added fuzzing targets for libFuzzer-compatible and AFL-compatible fuzzers, which already uncovered a treasure throve of issues. Fixes are now in development, will be gradually included in the next updates.
• Added --help (-h) and --version (-v) to UEFIExtract and UEFIFind, this makes them easier to use in scripts.

Fixes:

• Universal macOS package for UEFITool is an app bundle again, thanks to @makigumo and @mikebeaton for reporting.
• Unicode text search is working again, thanks to @nightgolfer and @mikebeaton for reporting.
• UEFIExtract and UEFIFind can again be built with slightly older versions of CMake, thanks to @platomav for reporting.
• Issues in descriptor and capsule parsing are non-fatal now, thanks to @platomav for reporting.
• "Extract body" action did not work for some section types.

New features:

• native UI dark mode support provided by switching to Qt6 for all release builds. Confirmed working on Windows 11, macOS 13, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and FreeBSD 13.1 with Qt 6.4.2. Thanks to @yeggor, @vit9696 and @NikolajSchlej.
• Windows builds split into modern win64 (using static x64 build of Qt 6.4.2) and legacy win32 (using static x86 build of Qt 5.6.3, supports legacy Windows version down to Windows XP). If you use a modern windows, please try win64 build out, as it might have uncaught 64-bit MSVC-specific bugs. Thanks to @NikolajSchlej.
• Support for AMI v3 protected ranges hash file. Thanks to @cybojanek for the initial pull request and @NikolajSchlej for the final implementation.

Fixes:

• Qt6 started using sse2 for real, and that uncovered a crash reported by @4e4o and @stuarthayhurst, that then got fixed by @NikolajSchlej.
• CMake config files lacked install targets for all tools, so cmake --install did not work. Does now thanks to @NikolajSchlej.

New features:

• it is now possible to paste GUIDs in raw EDK2 format into Search window as is without manual re-formatting, thanks to @mikebeaton
• support for HiDPI displays, thanks to @NikolajSchlej
• Zlib-compressed sections used on AMI-based boards for AMD CPUs are now supported, thanks to @NikolajSchlej

Fixes:

• several small fixes for crashes, thanks to @yeggor, @hughsie and @NikolajSchlej
• fix for OpenBSD builds, thanks to @klemensn

Notes:

• had to switch to using a monospace font for the whole UI due to HiDPI requirements. If you don't like the new UI look, please open an issue.