Breaking changes

• Command line options are now using subcommands like install, list, etc. instead of the old -i, -l

  Changes

• Add options for using external sinf and iTunes metadata
• Add JSON output capability
• Use CFBundleShortVersionString to display the app version
• Add -a command line switch to specify return attributes for 'list' command
• Add -b, --bundle-identifier command line switch to allow querying for bundle identifier

Bug Fixes:

• Fix picking wrong app directory from zip/ipa when there are other directories
• Fix wrong exit code on specific output format (xml or json)
• Make sure to always return an error code if something goes wrong

and also the libplist API documentation is now available on this website.

An overview of all available documentation can be found here.

Device database changes:

• Support iPad Pro M5 family devices
• Support Apple Vision Pro M5
• Support MacBook Pro 14-inch M5

Bug Fixes:

• Fix: array initialization compatibility with MSVC

Changes

• Switch to libfuse 3
• Require libimobiledevice 1.4.0

Changes

• Add support for MbedTLS
• Add Reverse Proxy implementation
• Add support for wireless pairing (AppleTV)
• Embed 3rd party libraries for ed25519 and SRP6a
• Fixes in idevicedebug
• idevicecrashreport: Allow filtering crash reports by filename
• Add idevicedevmodectl tool
• Fixes for idevicebackup2
• Add property_list_client_get_service_client() and service_get_connection() functions
• Add idevicebtlogger tool
• Add new idevice_events_subscribe/unsubscribe API
• Move LIBIMOBILEDEVICE_API to public headers
• Add afc_strerror function
• Add libimobiledevice_version() function
• Use libimobiledevice-glue's SHA1 implementation
• Add support for iOS 17+ Personalized Developer Disk image mounting
• Fix compilation on MSVC
• Add idevice_strerror() to interface
• Add new idevice_get_device_version() to interface
• Add os_trace_relay service implementation
• Fixes for idevicesyslog
• afc: Add afc_get_file_info_plist and afc_get_device_info_plist functions ... and several other internal changes

Bug fixes

• definitely some, it has been to long to go through everything

Changes

• Switch to better initializer strategy
• Allow building without readline support for the irecovery tool
• Added support for iOS 1 and iOS 2 recovery mode (Linux, macOS)

Device database changes

• Support iPhone 17 family devices
• Support Watch 11 / SE3 / Ultra3 models
• Support March 2025 iPad and Mac models
• Support iPhone 16e
• Support November 2024 Mac models
• Support iPad mini (A17 Pro)

Bug Fixes

• IOKit: Fix race condition when trying to delete runloop before it even started

Changes

• tools: Fix potential issue with select() in case the network fd is higher than the usbmux fd
• Switch to better initializer strategy
• Fix compilation on MSVC
• iproxy: Make sure to print correct socket error messages
• inetcat: Make sure to report correct error messages

Changes:

• Fix compilation on MSVC
• Add extern "C" guards to public headers
• Update auth client version

Changes

• socket: [macOS] Fix build on older macOS
• socket: [Windows] Prevent crash by properly initializing memory buffers
• Switch to better initializer strategy
• Fix compilation on MSVC
• Add extern "C" guards to public headers
• socket: Improve error message output/verbose logging
• socket: [Windows] Make sure errno is set in error conditions
• socket: Allow setting debug level via environment variable
• socket: [Windows] Use WSAAddressToStringA (ANSI version)
• socket: [Windows] Use inet_ntop instead of WSAAddressToStringA for >= Vista

Changes

• Add plist_new_unix_date, plist_get_unix_date_val, plist_set_unix_date_val functions that work with int64_t values representing a UNIX timestamp instead of using the 'MAC epoch'. These new functions should be used instead of plist_new_date, plist_get_date_val, and plist_set_date_val, which are now marked deprecated and might be removed in a future version of libplist.
• Allow building the library without tool(s)
• Switch to more generic global initializer method
• json: Allow e+/E+ in exponent as per RFC 8259
• C++: Add more convenience functions to the interface
• C++: Add more type variants to different constructors and operators

Bugfixes

• Fix segmentation fault when calling plist_sort() on an empty dictionary
• Fix compilation on MSVC
• C++: Fix bug in internal helper function of Array class
• C++: Fix String::GetValue memory leaking and support assignment of const char*

The code was originally part of idevicerestore and has been split out to its own library, while obviously idevicerestore will remain the main consumer.

The main functionality provided by this library are socket helper functions and a platform independent thread/mutex implementation. Besides that it comes with a number of string, file, and plist helper functions, as well as some other commonly used code that was originally duplicated in the dedicated projects.

This milestone switches hosting to use Github Pages.

If you want to contribute head over to the repository. It contains all the sources to generate this website and any changes are deployed upon pushing it to the master branch.

Fork it, change it and send a pull request.

A brief technology outline:

• Static website generated using Cecil
• Twig HTML templates using Bootstrap
• Responsive design optimized for mobile, tablet and desktop
• SASS based styles and optimized assets pipeline
• Icons by Font Awesome
• Syntax highlighting by Prism
• Dynamic content based on GitHub API data
• Automatically deployed using a GitHub Actions workflow for GitHub Pages
• Hero animation using CSS and SVG image
• Various CSS animations by animate-sass

Some areas that need work:

• Migrate more content from templates into markdown files
• Provide more examples and usage guides
• Improve frequently asked questions and other sections
• Automate generation of status page from external data

... and much more, looking forward to see great improvements from the community!

I really hope you guys enjoy the effort.

Next up are some releases and refactoring.

The website has been overhauled due to popular demand. We really needed a refresh. In that process upfront I decided to go for a full rebranding of the project, too.

Looking at the results I think it was worth the wait. The new colorful isometric logo that relates to the letters "L" and "i" alongside the flow of colors which symbolizes the "flow of communication and related components" should hopefully hit the spot of what the project stands for.

The next milestone is to integrate this page to be hosted using Github Pages. This should allow contributions for all content by the community! Looks like we arrived in the "static website generator era".

I really hope you guys enjoy the effort and there is much more coming in the next weeks!

P.S.: Just want to congratulate Inkscape to their fantastic 1.0 release. That helped all the way in our process so, "All your base are belong to us"!

Please find the latest source archives in our download section alongside release information.

This release round included:

• libirecovery 1.0.0
• libplist 2.2.0
• libusbmuxd 2.0.2
• libimobiledevice 1.3.0
• usbmuxd 1.1.1
• libideviceactivation 1.1.1
• ideviceinstaller 1.1.1
• idevicerestore 1.0.0
• ifuse 1.1.4.

The release features a completely new parser, dropped libxml2 dependency, various improvements, bugfixes and many security fixes. More releases coming up.