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tags: Replicant images release, Paul Kocialkowski
date: 2014-12-07T12:49:54+00:00
title: Replicant 4.2 0003 images release
authors: Paul Kocialkowski
---
It has been about 6 months since we last released a batch of images. A few
things of interest were completed in the meantime, so we are rolling out new
images today.
This release doesn't bring support for any new device: instead, it mostly
contains stability fixes for the devices we already support. The most
considerable change in this release is the inclusion of the Samsung-RIL
rewrite, that was developed this summer. [Samsung-RIL][1] is the component in
charge of dealing with the modem, the hardware chip that communicates with the
mobile telephony network. The code that was used since then didn't have a good
structure and didn't meet the code quality standards required to call it
stable or reliable. The rewrite should be more robust and fail-proof: it has
been tested daily on a couple of devices for the past few months, with no
major incident to report. The Samsung-RIL rewrite has about as many features
supported as the previous version, with the exception of a few ones that were
broken anyway (mainly, USSD and STK).
The new code establishes a sane basis for external contributions, so everyone
is welcome to dig in and add support for what's missing.
Another big achievement in that release is the inclusion of about a dozen
security fixes, covering issues such as Shellshock, Master key, Fake ID and
much more, thanks to reports by community members.
As usual, you can checkout the complete [changelog][2], download the images
from the [ReplicantImages][3] page and find [installation instructions][4] as
well as [build guides][5] on the [Replicant wiki][6].
Even though this release doesn't introduce support for any new device, I have
been at work regarding devices that make the best candidates for freedom and
privacy/security. As mentioned in [an earlier post][7], we are going to focus
the development effort on a few devices that allow running free bootloaders
and are either likely to have good modem isolation or don't have a modem at
all.
Recently, I have been working on adding Replicant support for [Sunxi
devices][8]. There is a lot of work to do in that area and while nothing was
released yet, it looks promising. I also spent a considerable amount of time
working on the LG Optimus Black (P970)'s bootloader. I will be posting [a
series of articles][9] about what an incredible journey it has been so far on
[my personal blog][10] over the next few days. Eventually, the device will be
properly documented in our wiki and as soon as U-Boot reaches feature
completeness, it will be time to start porting Replicant to the device!
**December 20th update:** The full series of articles about freeing the LG
Optimus Black (P970) is now available:
* [A hacker's journey: freeing a phone from the ground up, first part][9]
* [A hacker's journey: freeing a phone from the ground up, second part][11]
* [A hacker's journey: freeing a phone from the ground up, third part][12]
* [A hacker's journey: freeing a phone from the ground up, fourth part][13]
[1]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/Samsung-RIL>
[2]:
<http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/replicant/images/replicant-4.2/0003/metadata/changelog.txt>
[3]:
<http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/ReplicantImages#Replicant-42-0003-images>
[4]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki#Installing-Replicant>
[5]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki#Building-Replicant>
[6]: <http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/>
[7]: </2014/09/replicant-homepage-and-roadmap-for-the-future/>
[8]: <http://linux-sunxi.org/User:PaulK>
[9]: <http://code.paulk.fr/article20/a-hacker-s-journey-freeing-a-phone-from-the-ground-up-first-part>
[10]: <http://code.paulk.fr/>
[11]: <http://code.paulk.fr/article21/a-hacker-s-journey-freeing-a-phone-from-the-ground-up-second-part>
[12]: <http://code.paulk.fr/article22/a-hacker-s-journey-freeing-a-phone-from-the-ground-up-third-part>
[13]: <http://code.paulk.fr/article23/a-hacker-s-journey-freeing-a-phone-from-the-ground-up-fourth-part>
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