Frida 17.16.0 Released

Frida 17.16.0 Released ∞

release

17 Jul 2026

Big release this time, with a mix of safety hardening, platform fixes, and some API polishing. Huge thanks to @hsorbo and @SamSunNV for their contributions.

Highlights include:

spawn-gating: Make it fail-safe and scoped. The system-wide Linux eBPF spawn gater is now opt-in through the new SpawnGatingScope, and all suspending gaters now share a watchdog that disables gating and resumes everything if a caught process is left suspended for too long. This avoids wedging process creation system-wide when a client disappears or stops resuming spawns.
spawn-gating: Add a spawn_gating_disabled(reason) signal on HostSession, bubbled up to Device, so clients can tell when the watchdog had to step in.
python: Auto-generate the Python bindings from Frida’s GIR. This also adds support for asyncio, through the new frida.aio package.
swift: Auto-generate the Swift bindings from Frida’s GIR.
auth: Flush the pending INVALID_ARGUMENT reply before closing the authentication channel, so clients reliably see the token rejection instead of a closed connection.
fruity: Fix upload injection on arm64e by applying each segment’s protection before running threaded and chained fixups. This lets writable data segments receive their rebased and authenticated pointers without faulting, while still avoiding any rwx mapping. Thanks @hsorbo!
darwin: Revive CodeSegment realization on modern iOS by emitting a modern SHA-256 CodeDirectory with exec-segment fields and a non-empty identifier. The implementation probes the modern flavor first, falls back to the legacy one when needed, and caches the working strategy.
darwin: Probe CodeSegment support at runtime by patching a scratch page, instead of relying on XNU version guesses for behavior that varies across kernels.
gumjs: Let V8 JIT inside the iOS app sandbox by avoiding the macOS-specific MAP_JIT path on iOS and instead using Gum’s own JIT allocation path.
darwin: Fix arm64e attach crashes by signing resident notifier handler pointers before the add-image stub branches through them.
darwin-mapper: Skip stores for threaded binds, where the resolved target already lives in the chain processor’s symbol table and the default segment/offset may point into read-only __TEXT. Thanks @hsorbo!
arm64-writer: Add PACIA and MOVK instruction emitters, useful for signing pointers inline and building ptrauth discriminators in generated code. Thanks @hsorbo!
x86: Preserve AVX-512 state in Stalker. On AVX-512 hosts we now save and restore the upper halves of zmm0-15, zmm16-31, and the k0-k7 opmask registers, fixing crashes when stalking EVEX-using libc routines.
x86: Add AVX-512 CPU feature detection and writer emitters for the spills needed by Stalker.
x86: Expose XMM registers in CpuContext, backed by the live save area where available, and add gum_cpu_context_copy() plus a boxed type for safe persistence. Thanks for the fun team-work, @hsorbo!
interceptor: Discard hooks when a module is unloaded, without trying to restore prologues in memory that is no longer mapped. Thanks @SamSunNV!
module-registry: Fix ELF range computation for modules whose program headers are not mapped next to the ELF header, such as libgit2. We compute ranges from program headers when possible and fall back to /proc/self/maps only when needed.
memory: Finish migrating internal callers to gum_memory_allocate() and gum_memory_free(), and remove the old gum_alloc_n_pages() family.
windows: Fix installed-assets helper discovery by expanding <arch>, finding helpers in per-architecture directories, and having the manager mint and pass a unique rendezvous name to all helper services.
windows: Improve MSVC cross builds by keeping the arm64->x86 build cross, pointing each compiler at its own include and library paths, and preserving the environment’s INCLUDE/LIB for native build-machine tools.
build: Resolve GLib up front through a new glib.wrap, base in-tree payloads on the GLib flavor, configure native languages for cross builds, and avoid forwarding parent build-machine options into compat builds.
deps: Rebuild prebuilts with the current GitHub Actions Xcode, picking up the updated arm64e ABI.
compiler/barebone: Bump @types/frida-gum to 19.10.0.
tests: Make the bytecode test unload its script before dropping the last reference, fixing an intermittent teardown race under load. Thanks @hsorbo!