Frida 16.0.8 Released ∞
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This time we’ve focused on polishing up our macOS and iOS support. For those of you using spawn() and spawn-gating for early instrumentation, things are now in much better shape.
i/macOS spawn() performance
The most exciting change in this release is all about performance. Programs that would previously take a while to start when launched using Frida should now be a lot quicker to start. This long-standing bottleneck was so bad that an app with a lot of libraries could fail to launch due to Frida slowing down its startup too much.
i/macOS and SIGPIPE
Next up we have a fix for a long-standing reliability issue. Turns out our file-descriptors used for IPC did not have SO_NOSIGPIPE set, so we could sometimes end up in a situation where either Frida or the target process terminated abruptly, and the other side would end up getting zapped by SIGPIPE while trying to write().
Sandboxed environments, part two
The previous release introduced some bold new changes to support injecting into hardened targets. Since then @hsorbo and me dug back into our recent GLib kqueue() patch and fixed some rough edges. We also fixed a regression where attaching to hardened processes through usbmuxd would fail with “connection closed”.
Linux
On the Linux and Android side of things, some of you may have noticed that thread enumeration could fail randomly, especially inside busy processes. That issue has now finally been dealt with.
Also, thanks to @drosseau we also have an error-handling improvement that should avoid some confusion when things fail in 32-/64-bit cross-arch builds.
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That is all this time around. Enjoy!