hexyl

hexyl 0.17.0

Hex viewer, which uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes.

  • By David Peter
  • Open Source
  • Updated Feb 14, 2026
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About hexyl

Hex viewer, which uses colored output to distinguish different categories of bytes.

What's new in 0.17.0

What's Changed
- Enable custom colors with environment variables by @dan-hipschman in #248
- Add new braille character table and color schemes by @aticu in #247
- Add shell completion by @friedz in #251
- Add option to output result in C include file style (#242) by @wpcwzy in #246
- Fix some clippy warnings by @saulvaldelvira in #241
- Fix issue #238 by @ilmanzo in #239
- Fix CI by @dan-hipschman in #249
- Check if terminal_width is less than offset and return 1 (see #244) by @selfup in #245
- Add colors to --help by @starsep in #253
- Improve crate && fix CI by @Its-Just-Nans in #256
- feat: handle standard input "-" by @Its-Just-Nans in #257
New Contributors
- @saulvaldelvira made their first contribution in #241
- @ilmanzo made their first contribution in #239
- @dan-hipschman made their first contribution in #249
- @aticu made their first contribution in #247
- @friedz made their first contribution in #251
- @wpcwzy made their first contribution in #246
- @starsep made their first contribution in #253
- @Its-Just-Nans made their first contribution in #256
Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0

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Technical details

PublisherDavid Peter
Version0.17.0
Release date2026-02-14
LicenseApache-2.0
Installer typezip
Architecturex64
Package IDsharkdp.hexyl

Links & install command

Install hexyl from the command line with Windows Package Manager (winget):

winget install --id=sharkdp.hexyl -e

binary-datacommand-linehexadecimalrusttool

Older versions

  • 0.16.0
  • 0.15.0
  • 0.14.0
  • 0.13.1
  • 0.13.0