Time for another feature-packed release! Highlights:

  • simmy: Brand-new backend for talking to Apple’s simulators through CoreSimulator.framework. Spawn apps, instrument processes, and generally treat simulators like any other device – all from the comfort of Frida.

  • darwin: Support early instrumentation of dyld_sim, so you can attach and load your scripts even at a point before the dynamic loader has finished boot-strapping the simulated process.

  • darwin: Fix sysroot detection on the latest iOS 18 simulator, where dyld_sim is now hidden from _dyld_image_count and TASK_DYLD_ALL_IMAGE_INFO_64. Thanks to @CodeColorist for tracking this one down!

  • fruity: Automatically unpair whenever we encounter an InvalidHostID error, allowing the next pairing attempt to succeed. Great work by @mrmacete!

  • android: Update system-server to frida-java-bridge 7.0.9. Changes:
    • Fix Java.deoptimize*() and Java.backtrace() on Android 16. Thanks @hsorbo!
    • Improve typings. Thanks @yotamN!

  • host-session: Add cross-backend communication, so devices discovered through one backend are now available to internals in another.

  • base: Introduce StdioPipes and FileDescriptor helpers, shared by the Darwin, Linux, and FreeBSD backends.

  • value: New VariantReader.list_members() helper for easier introspection.

Enjoy!