Frida 6.0 Released

Frida 6.0 Released ∞

release

11 Nov 2015

Epic release this time, with brand new iOS 9 support and improvements all over the place. For some more background, check out my blog posts here and here.

There’s a lot of ground to cover here, but the summary is basically:

6.0.0:

core: add support for OS X El Capitan
core: add support for iOS 9
core: fix launchd plist permissions in Cydia package
core: disable our dynamic linker on iOS for now
core: add new JavaScript runtime based on JavaScriptCore, as we cannot use V8 on iOS 9 with the current jailbreak
core: add brand new system session when attaching to pid=0
core: improve arm hooking, including support for early TBZ/TBNZ/IT/B.cond, and avoid relocating instructions that a later instruction loops back to
core: fix relocation of LDR.W instructions on arm64
core: abort when we’re stuck in an exception loop
core: fix AutoIgnorer-related deadlocks
core: drop our . prefix so temporary files are easier to discover
python: add support for running without ES6 support
python: tweak setup.py to allow offline installation
python: lock the prompt-toolkit version to 0.38 for now
frida-repl: fix display of raw buffers as returned by Memory.readByteArray()
frida-repl: fix crash in completion on error
node: add support for DeviceManager’s added and removed signals
node: add example showing how to watch available devices
node: use prebuild instead of node-pre-gyp
node: Babelify the source code read by frida.load()
node: remove frida.load() as it’s now in the frida-load module

6.0.1:

python: stop providing 3.4 binaries and move to 3.5 instead
node: fix Linux linking issue where we fail to pick up our libffi
node: also produce prebuild for Node.js LTS

6.0.2:

core: provide FridaGadget.dylib for instrumenting iOS apps without jailbreak
core: add support for the iOS Simulator
core: improve MemoryAccessMonitor to allow monitoring any combination of R, W or X operations on a page
python: fix UTF-8 fields being accidentally exposed as str on Python 2.x

6.0.3:

core: fix spawn() on OS X

6.0.4:

core: add partial support for using the gadget standalone
CLI tools: fix crash when the stdout encoding cannot represent all characters
frida-trace: always treat handler scripts as UTF-8

6.0.5:

core: add logical shift right and left operations to NativePointer
core: improve Interceptor to support attaching to a replaced function
core: add support for hooking tiny functions on 32-bit ARM
core: emulate {Get/Set}LastErrror and TLS key access on Windows, allowing us to hook more low-level APIs

6.0.6:

core: fix launchd / Jetsam issue on iOS 9
core: fix iOS 9 code signing issue
core: update security attributes on named pipe to allow us to inject into more Windows apps

6.0.7:

core: add support for injecting into processes on linux-arm
core: fix crashes related to the DebugSymbol API on Mac and iOS
frida-trace: improve manpage parser

6.0.8:

core: fix Linux compatibility issue caused by failing to link libstdc++ statically

6.0.9:

core: add support for running frida-gadget standalone
core: add a temporary workaround for Windows compatibility regression
core: port the Fruity backend to Linux, allowing direct access to connected iOS devices
core: expose the InvocationContext context read-write in the JavaScriptCore runtime also
core: fix issue with InvocationContext’s CpuContext getting GCed prematurely

6.0.10:

Re-release of 6.0.9 with a Windows build regression fix.

6.0.11:

core: prevent stale HostSession objects in case of network errors
CLI tools: assume UTF-8 when the stdout encoding is unknown
node: fix double free caused by using the wrong Nan API

6.0.12:

core: update security attributes on named pipe on Windows
core: add CreateProcessW flags to prevent IFEO loop on Windows
core: fix hooking of recursive functions on arm and arm64
python: fix Python 3 line endings regression
node: update prebuild dependency

Enjoy!