Lilu Changelog

v1.5.5

• Added a variant of KernelPatcher::findAndReplace that requires both find and replace buffers to have the same length.

v1.5.4

• Allow loading on macOS 12 without -lilubetaall (With adapted for macOS 12 plug-ins)
• Added guarding for address slot usage to avoid potential kernel routing overflow
• Allow using medium size function routing in the kernel
• Added medium size function routing for Long mode as they are functionally equivalent
• Added matchSharedCachePath API to support dyld cache matching on macOS 12
• Added _kmod hooking for kext listening to unify kext patcher logic
• Added zlib decompression API
• Fixed kernel patcher support on 64-bit 10.6
• Added new GPU switching API

v1.5.3

• Fixed kernel patcher support on 10.7

v1.5.2

• Fixed AZAL recognition as GPU audio on certain AMD platforms (thx to wkpark)
• Added external GPU disabling API with device and kernel selection via properties
• Added identifiers for Rocket Lake and Tiger Lake CPUs
• Added API to disable builtin GPU (IGPU)
• Reduced hardware presence bruteforce to a more sensible value

v1.5.1

• Added lilu_os_memmem and lilu_os_memchr APIs
• Added getSharedCachePath API to obtain current cache path
• Added LIKELY/UNLIKELY macros

v1.5.0

• Fixed Apple HDEF detection made by NVIDIA
• Fixed race-condition in select kext detection during patching (thx to lvs1974)

v1.4.9

• Added the PCI GMCH Graphics Control register definition. (by 0xFireWolf)
• Added a new API to solve multiple symbols in one shot conveniently. (by 0xFireWolf)
• Added a new RouteRequest constructor to work with function pointers without additional type castings. (by 0xFireWolf)

v1.4.8

• Added MacKernelSDK with Xcode 12 compatibility
• Removed kern_atomic.hpp due to MacKernelSDK implementation
• Acidanthera MacKernelSDK is now required for all plugins
• Fixed Lilu loading on macOS 10.6 (not all APIs will be functional)
• Fixed plugin debug log not working with Lilu disabled

v1.4.7

• Added more platform headers for plugin compilation
• Fixed symbol chainloading regression in 1.4.6

v1.4.6

• Added preliminary definitions for 11.0 support
• Temporarily disabled user patcher for 11.0
• Added external-audio property to ignore PCI audio cards
• Added in-memory symbol solving for 11.0
• Fixed accidentally solving stabs instead of normal symbols
• Added device publishing API to monitor device startup
• Added DeviceInfo caching for improved performance
• Added implicit slotted (medium) patches in KC mode to reduce patch size

v1.4.5

• Fixed newer CPU generation detection
• Added failsafe versions of CML framebuffers

v1.4.4

• Added new CFL connector-less framebuffers: 0x9BC80003, 0x9BC50003, 0x9BC40003
• Fixed KDK support disrespecting file suffixes

v1.4.3

• Improved modern CPUID detection
• Added BaseDeviceInfo API with improved performance
• Deprecated CPUInfo::getGeneration, WIOKit::getComputerModel(), WIOKit::getComputerInfo()

v1.4.2

• Fixed IMEI device detection on some platforms
• Added CometLake CPU model support (thx @stormbirds)
• Added getFatOffset MachO API

v1.4.1

• Made applyLookupPatch support kernel patches by passsing null kext
• Export hde64 interface
• Added evector deleter without copying for improved performance
• Allow C strings as module prefix argument to the logging functions

v1.4.0

• Fixed mishandling user patches process list after processKernel API call
• Fixed extra I/O in user patcher even when no patches were needed
• Added support for per-process (LocalOnly) userspace patches

v1.3.9

• Added QEMU/KVM vendor compatibility to device detection logic

v1.3.8

• Compile Xcode 11 OSObject stubs into plugins to allow mixing compilers
• Unified release archive names
• Added multirouting support to routeFunction API enabling functions to have multiple proxies
• Added explicit routing type to routeFunction APIs
• Made Lilu use long function routes to ease third-part multirouting

v1.3.7

• Allow loading on 10.15 without -lilubetaall
• Add support for Xcode 11 analysis tools
• Add workaround to 10.15 SDK Dispatch method (use old Xcode when possible)

v1.3.6

• Lilu now uses OpenCore NVRAM variable GUIDs
• Add support for 0x3E980003 frame id for CFL refresh

v1.3.5

• Fixed analog audio device detection on certain laptops with Insyde firmware

v1.3.4

• Added implicit eraseCoverageInstPrefix to routeMultiple
• Fixed user patcher kernel panic when running process via posix_spawn without exec
• Fixed user patcher codesign issues on recent 10.14 versions with SIP
• Changed kern_start and kern_stop to contain product prefix to avoid collisions

v1.3.3

• Added support for modern AMD device scanning by @AlGreyy
• Added support for VMware device scanning

v1.3.2

• Extended supported firmware vendor list

v1.3.1

• Lowered version compatibility to 1.2.0 to let plugins load

v1.3.0

• Fixed a rare kernel panic on user patch failure
• Removed unimplemented genPlatformKey API

v1.2.9

• Added kern_atomic.hpp header to support atomic types with old Clang
• Added ThreadLocal APIs
• Added KernelPatcher::eraseCoverageInstPrefix API
• Fixed race condition during bootstrap (thx @Download-Fritz)
• Fixed potential race condition during user patching

v1.2.8

• Fixed CPU generation detection for Coffee Lake-U
• Fixed PEGP detection with 3D Controller class-code
• Fixed userspace patcher compatibility with macOS Mojave
• Allow manually specified reservation in evector
• Improved version information printing in DEBUG builds

v1.2.7

• Added support for detecting optimus switch-off
• Added Sanitize target with ubsan support (thx to NetBSD)
• Added disk log dump in DEBUG builds via liludump=N boot-arg (requires plugin rebuild)
• Fixed multiple Mach-O parsing issues
• Fixed support of PCI devices without compatible property
• Fixed PCI class-code masking not detecting HDEF devices

v1.2.6

• Added Cannon Lake and Ice Lake definitions
• Added missing typed getOSData APIs
• Added -liluuseroff boot-arg to disable user patcher (for e.g. shared cache manipulation)
• Added lilucpu=N boot-arg to assume CPU generation
• Added CPU topology detection APIs
• Fixed routeMultiple kernel panic and log report
• Switched to Apple lzvn implementation

v1.2.5

• Added new DeviceInfo API
• Added checkKernelArgument API
• Added enforced LiluAPI interfaces
• Added KextInfo::switchOff API
• Added cpuid API
• Allowed for onKextLoad to accept no callback
• Removed GPU detection code from CPUInfo API
• Enabled by default on 10.14

v1.2.4

• Internalize new APIs from 1.2.3
• Added new EFI runtime API with custom variable extensions
• Added new RTC storage API
• Added centralised entitlement hooking API
• Added lilu_os_qsort export (the supported interface is Apple-private)
• Added liludelay=1000 boot argument to insert a 1s delay after each print
• Added new symbol routing API with simplified interface
• Fixed a kernel panic in userspace patching code on 10.14b1

v1.2.3

• Added CPU information API for cpu families and generations
• Added IGPU information API for framebuffers and stuff
• Added WIOKit::renameDevice API for device renaming with compatible fixing
• Added KernelPatcher::routeVirtual API for virtual function swapping
• Added PCI register and address manipulation API
• Added basic process modification API
• Added plugin IOService access
• Added address-printing macros
• Added address validation API
• Added strict kext UUID validation to workaround broken kextcache
• Added version info reporting to IORegistry for Lilu and plugins
• Fixed several inline function definitions
• Fixed crash when loading user patches with no binary patches
• Reduced long patch length in function routing API

v1.2.2

• Acknowledged macOS Install Data and com.apple.recovery.boot prelinkedkernel paths (thx Piker-Alpha)
• Fixed ignoring kcsuffix=<suffix> for kexts and less common names
• Added extra logging for backtrace macros to ensure that they are not skipped
• Fixed compilation issues with clang not supporting 2 args for deprecated attribute

v1.2.1

• Fixed a rare kernel panic when running Lilu with -liludbg
• Added a workaround for 10.13.2 beta issues
• Fixed compilation with Xcode 8.2
• Added prelink usage detection to avoid confusing different kernels
• Disabled prelink usage for kext address solving by default since it caused many issues

v1.2.0

• Added more handy reporting macros
• Enabled Lilu in safe mode by default with all plugins required to declare supported environments
• Added lzss compression API
• Added crypto and nvram API
• Added support for solving kext symbols from kextcache
• Added memfunc wrappers (e.g. lilu_os_memcpy) to avoid undefined builtins from 10.13 SDK
• Added -liludbgall boot argument (to be on par with -lilubetaall)
• Added unexact process path matching
• Changed compression API logic to support preallocated buffers
• Changed memory allocation logic in certain APIs
• Changed kernel protection API to accept a lock for cpu preemption control
• Changed KextInfo structure to handle disabled and fsonly kexts
• Changed logging API to enforce more proper style
• Disabled advanced disassembly APIs by default (create an issue if you need them)
• Fixed a memory issue in WIOKit::getComputerInfo introduced in 1.1.7
• Fixed several assertions triggering in 10.13 development kernel
• Fixed Xcode 9 compiled binary compatibility with older OS
• Fixed FAT_CIGAM and FAT_MAGIC parsing issues
• Fixed a number of potential memory issues in mach parsing code
• Fixed debug and development kextcache loading issues
• Fixed shutdown issues in -lilulowmem mode
• Fixed seldom boot slowdown when disabling the plugins via boot arguments

v1.1.7

• Merged advanced disassembly API (thx Pb and others)
• Added HDE disassembler for quick instruction decoding (by Vyacheslav Patkov)
• Updated capstone to 3.0.5 rc3
• Fixed load API lock type preventing dynamic memory allocation (thx Pb)
• Added setInterrupts API
• Added an option to define custom plugin entry points
• Added const reference evector API
• Added FAT_CIGAM Mach-O support
• Added WIOKit::getComputerInfo API and improved some other WIOKit APIs
• Added support of storing larger than pointer types in evector
• Added -lilubetaall boot argument to skip version checking for all plugins

v1.1.6

• Ignored disabled kexts earlier for speed reasons
• Added High Sierra to the list of compatible OS
• Added arrsize API
• Made patch count warning only show in debug mode
• Made kinfo not found logging only show in debug mode
• Added routeBlock API for opcode-based routing
• Centralised user and kernel patcher start time
• Added c-compliant kern_os_cfree implementation
• Added a workaround for page fault kernel panics
• Added a workaround for xnu printf limitations

v1.1.5

• Increased executable memory buffer to page size
• Added auth-root-dmg support High Sierra installer detection (thx Piker-Alpha)
• Added -liluforce to force enable Lilu in safe mode and recovery
• Added preliminary Xcode 9 compatibility
• Added support for unloadable kexts
• Merged official capstone patches up to c508224

v1.1.4

• Slightly improved userspace patcher speed for 10.12
• Added missing dyld_shared_cache detection with a fallback
• Defined High Sierra kernel version

v1.1.3

• Reduced binary size by modding capstone
• Fixed LiluAPI::onProcLoad return code
• Added MachInfo::setRunningAddresses for userspace symbol solving
• Added getKernelMinorVersion for symmetry
• Added kernel write protection and interrupt state validation

v1.1.1

• Changed loading policy to ignore kexts that are not permitted to load
• Increased executable memory buffer from 256 to 1024 bytes
• Allowed different plugins load the same kexts

v1.1.0

• Added support for patching different sections/segments
• Added file writing API by lvs1974
• Added strrchr API
• Changed requestAccess to include API version to workaround kext loading issues
• Updated capstone to 3.0.5 rc2
• Improved 32-bit userspace patcher
• Enforced -liluslow in installer and recovery

v1.0

• Initial release