Frida 17.8.1 Released

Frida 17.8.1 Released ∞

release

13 Mar 2026

This release brings a bunch of fixes and compatibility improvements across Android, Linux, musl-based systems, and newer LLVM toolchains:

android: Only load in namespace if the ART namespace actually exists.
android: Handle Chrome’s zygote process so it stays invisible to spawn gating, while its children continue to be gated as expected.
android: Bump to Android NDK r29 and target API 21 on all architectures, as older API levels are no longer supported by the latest NDK.
linux: Improve process enumeration so uid is always present, user lookup is more robust, and indeterminate or undersized getpwuid_r() buffers are handled correctly.
linux: Avoid an rtld notifier deadlock on musl.
linux: Handle missing /proc in the debugger check.
compiler: Add a musl-compatible backend mode that runs the Go compiler backend out-of-process as a persistent helper, avoiding TLS-related limitations when frida-core is loaded after startup or through dlopen().
libc-shim: Plug more stdio API holes, including setbuf(), setlinebuf(), setbuffer(), __srget(), and fix the setbuffer() signature on glibc + musl.
meson: Fix linking on modern LLVM/LLD toolchains by using FreeBSD-specific version scripts where needed.

Enjoy!