Frida 5.0 Released

Frida 5.0 Released ∞

release

17 Sep 2015

Wow, another major release! We decided to change the Device API to give you persistent IDs so you can easily tell different devices apart as they’re hotplugged.

But that’s just the beginning of it, we’re also bringing a ton of other improvements this time:

5.0.0:

core: change Device.id to represent individual devices across reconnects
core: add new Droidy backend for interfacing with connected Android devices
core: adjust confusing iPhone 5+ device name on Darwin
core: normalize the fallback iOS device name for consistency with Android
core: upgrade V8 to 4.5.103.30
objc: include both class and instance methods in $methods and $ownMethods
python: add -D switch for specifying the device id to connect to
python: add frida-ls-devices CLI tool for listing devices
python: update to the new Device.id API
python: add get_local_device() and improve API consistency with frida-node
node: update to the new Device.id API
node: improve the top-level facade API
qml: update to the new Device.id API
clr: update to the new Device.id API
frida-ps: improve the output formatting

5.0.1:

core: add support for source maps
node: add frida.load() for turning a CommonJS module into a script
node: upgrade Nan

5.0.2:

core: add console.warn() and console.error()
core: add Module.enumerateImports() and implement on Darwin, Linux, and Windows
core: allow null module name when calling Module.findExportByName()
core: move Darwin.Module and Darwin.Mapper from frida-core to frida-gum, allowing easy Mach-O parsing and out-of-process dynamic linking
core: better handling of temporary files
frida-trace: add support for conveniently tracing imported functions
frida-trace: blacklist dyld_stub_binder from being traced
python: avoid logging getting overwritten by the status message changing

5.0.3:

core: improve arm64 hooking, including support for hooking short functions

5.0.4:

core: improve arm64 hooking, also taking care to avoid relocating instructions that other instructions depend on, including the next instruction after a BL/BLR/SVC instruction
core: port Arm64Writer and Arm64Relocator to Capstone

5.0.5:

core: fix crash on teardown by using new API provided by our GLib patch
core: fix module name resolving on Linux
core: improve ELF handling to also consider ET_EXEC images as valid modules
core: improve arm64 hooking
core: port {Arm,Thumb}Writer and {Arm,Thumb}Relocator to Capstone
python: fix tests on OS X 10.11
node: fix tests on OS X 10.11

5.0.6:

core: turn NativeFunction invocation crash into a JS exception when possible
core: add Process.setExceptionHandler() for handling native exceptions from JS
core: install a default exception handler that emits error messages
core: prevent apps from overriding our exception handler if we install ours early in the process life-time
core: gracefully handle it if we cannot replace native functions
core: allow RPC exports to return ArrayBuffer values
python: add support for rpc methods returning ArrayBuffer objects
node: add support for rpc methods returning ArrayBuffer objects

5.0.7:

core: don’t install a default exception handler for now

5.0.8:

Re-release of 5.0.7 due to build machine issues.

5.0.9:

python: update setup.py to match new build server configuration

5.0.10:

core: fix instrumentation of arm64 functions with early usage of IP registers

Enjoy!