Frida 17.9.2 Released

Frida 17.9.2 Released ∞

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28 Apr 2026

Frida 17.9.2 is out. This release is heavy on build-system polish and packaging infrastructure, while also bringing new APIs, Swift binding improvements, and a healthy batch of bug-fixes.

Highlights:

fruity: Keep shared LLDB sessions alive until the last Gadget using them detaches. Thanks to @mrmacete.
elf: Handle missing ELF backing files more gracefully.
exceptor: Strip PAC bits from arm64e PCs in exception details.
module-registry: Use r_debug for Linux RTLD notification synchronization to avoid reentering the dynamic linker.
fruity-syscall-trace: Keep tracing when symbolicator signature lookup fails for one PID by falling back to a minimal signature. Thanks to joe.
syscall-trace: Add include-syscall support. Thanks to @IPMegladon.
stalker-x86: Free slow slabs on destroy and add the matching helper. Thanks to @buherator.
compat/build: Fix source builds with an empty allowed-prebuild set, helping platforms such as FreeBSD. Thanks to @cl45h.
build: Add first-class distro-packaging support. Frida Core can now be built as a shared library against upstream GLib and system dependencies, with installed assets under lib/frida-1.0, relocatable asset discovery, cleaner .pc/GIR/typelib output, and fewer internal subproject artifacts leaking into the install prefix.
apple: Move away from OpenSSL on Darwin. TLS now uses gioapple, certificate generation uses SecKey, libnice uses CommonCrypto and arc4random_buf, XPC UUID generation uses GLib.Uuid, and macOS builds skip Fruity code that needs OpenSSL. There is also a new –with-apple-min-os configure flag for raising the Apple deployment-target floor.
fruity: Split the portable pairing/tunnel code into its own files, drive TLS-PSK directly through OpenSSL on non-macOS, and fix the binary plist serializer’s hashing/equality for Bytes values.
core: Work around JSON-GLib’s Json.Reader lifetime trap by pinning parsed root nodes, fixing aborts on GLib builds with runtime checks enabled.
core: Fix frida_init_with_runtime() being overwritten by later frida_init() calls.
api: Add WebRequestHandler, WebRequest, WebResponse, and endpoint request-handler support; expose PortalService extra-endpoint registration.
host-session: Replace the old hardcoded provider icon blobs with bundled PNG resources, and add icons for the local and simulator providers.
compiler: Keep the dynamically loaded backend resident.
swift: Add Linux support through pkg-config, a USE_SYSTEM_FRIDA escape hatch on Apple platforms, WebRequestHandler bindings, PortalService endpoint bindings, DeviceChange async streams, broader Variant unmarshalling, and Swift 6 Sendable polish.
swift: Fix NSNumber JSON classification on Apple platforms, Linux build breakage from CoreFoundation-only helpers, and Int32/UInt32 enum raw-value mismatches on MSVC.
build: Isolate pkg-config per machine; preserve the caller’s PKG_CONFIG_PATH; avoid Strawberry Perl’s broken pkg-config.