Well known XDA Developer and Contributor, topjohnwu released the Magisk 15.4 version to the public, earlier this week. Which contains socket obfuscation for hiding Magisk better, some optimizations to Magisk Manager and MagiskBoot improvements. Now, the Magisk received another update yesterday, which bring fixes some previously bootloop crash issues and other issues for the Huawei and Honor device running on Android Oreo. The latest Magisk systemless root tool is 16.0 version.
In the new update for Magisk, the support for Huawei and Honor devices running on Android Oreo is the biggest change for lots of people. Last week, XDA Developer topjohnwu launched the Magisk for Honor view 10, Huawei Mate 10 and Huawei Mate 10 Pro. The Magisk for Huawei and Honor devices is an outstanding achievement by topjohnwu because the Huawei and Honor devices are running on the latest HiSilicon Kirin 970 SoC which is a bit different than Qualcomm Snapdragon-based devices. Until now, Magisk systemless root tool has never been available on any Huawei and Honor devices.
In the previously Magisk version, some people faced bootloop issue. But the new Magisk 16.0 brings fix for the NDK compiler bug that resolved to cause a bootloop issue.
topjohnwu, XDA Developer also announced his Android library Libsu. The Android library is fully documented and ready to release for the root app developers. It was designed to share an interactive root shell across the whole application. You can find the example code, tutorials and full Javadoc of the libsu, Here.
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