2018.2.13 Magisk v15.4
Massive MagiskBoot Improvements
A lot more boot images are supported with magiskboot - I would love to say magiskboot could be the most powerful single binary to handle Android boot images! Huge props to @osm0sis with his assistance and his AIK project for making this possible - we have some plans coming
Massive Magisk Manager Optimizations
I've rewritten Chainfire's zipadjust (originally from OpenDelta project) into Java (also fixed a typo in his code
). This result in the removal of JNI in Magisk Manager, and great simplification in Magisk's building system for signing zips. Also, the portion of dealing with root is migrated to libsu, an Android Library I designed for root app developers, and for an exciting WIP project . I'll officially introduce libsu in a future post very soon, the documentations are not done yet, but developers interested can chime in the code and check out the cool features and designs.
There are also massive improvements in the way Magisk Manager handles the superuser database. It should be much more robust, fixes the bugs people has experienced, and make the repackaging of Magisk Manager (a.k.a hiding Magisk Manager) much more stable and error prone.
Socket Obfuscation
In previous Magisk releases (well, all CM based if not all root solutions), the daemon listens to a specific Unix socket, and requests can be sent via the socket to remotely start a root shell from the daemon and connect STDIN/OUT/ERR to the current terminal/process. So technically speaking, a process can directly talk to the socket instead of calling "su", since what "su" does can be oversimplified as basically establishing a socket connection to the daemon. This means that even if we have MagiskHide enabled, any app can discover the socket entry Magisk uses and detect, or even request root access. Starting from this release, the socket name will be randomly assigned each time the device boots up, so processes with MagiskHide enforced can effectively be blocked from root access.
Magisk Manager v5.6.0 is available through stable channel; Magisk v15.4 is currently in beta, and will soon be pushed to the stable channel once publicly tested