Frida 7.3 Released

Frida 7.3 Released ∞

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15 Aug 2016

It’s finally release o’clock, and this time around the focus has been on improving quality. As it’s been a while since the last time we upgraded our third-party dependencies, and I found myself tracking down a memory-leak in GLib that had already been fixed upstream, I figured it was time to upgrade our dependencies. So with this release I’m happy to announce that we’re now packing the latest V8, GLib, Vala compiler, etc. Great care was also taken to eliminate resource leaks, so you can attach to long-running processes without worrying about memory allocations or OS handles piling up.

So in closing, let’s summarize the changes:

7.3.0:

core: upgrade to the latest V8, GLib, Vala, Android NDK, etc.
core: plug resource leaks
core: fix thread enumeration on Linux/x86-32
core: (arm64) improve function hooking by adding support for relocating LDRPC with an FP/SIMD destination register

7.3.1:

core: build Android binaries with PIE like we used to

7.3.2:

core: add Script.setGlobalAccessHandler() for handling attempts to access undeclared global variables, which is useful for building REPLs

7.3.3:

objc: convert Number to NSNumber when an object is expected
objc: add support for auto-converting to an array of objects, useful when calling e.g. +[NSArray arrayWithObjects:count:]

7.3.4:

core: improve the unstable accessor API
core: fix the Duktape globals accessor logic so it’s only applied to reads

7.3.5:

core: improve hexdump() to support any NativePointer-conforming object
objc: fix handling of the L type

7.3.6:

core: fix regression in devkit header auto-generation logic

Enjoy!