Atmosphère 0.10.0

0.10.0 is Atmosphère’s twenty-third official release.

fusee-primary was last updated in: 0.10.0.

With thanks to the @switchbrew team, Atmosphère 0.10.0 is bundled with hbl 2.2, and hbmenu 3.1.1.

• Please note: Atmosphère 0.10.0 is currently in pre-release.
  • If any bugs are reported while Atmosphère is in pre-release, they will be fixed and the build will be updated.
  • 0.10.0 will transition to release after a short amount of time has passed without pressing bug reports.

The following was changed since the last release:

• Support was added for 9.1.0
  • Please note: The temporary hid-mitm added in Atmosphere 0.9.0 will be removed in Atmosphere 0.10.1.
    • Please ensure your homebrew is updated.
• The Stratosphere rewrite was completed.
  • libstratosphere was rewritten as part of Stratosphere’s refactor.
    • Code responsible for providing and managing IPC services was greatly improved.
      • The new code is significantly more accurate (it is bug-for-bug compatible with Nintendo’s code), and significantly faster.
  • ams.mitm was rewritten as part of Stratosphere’s refactor.
    • Saves redirected to the SD card are now separated for sysmmc vs emummc.
    • Please note: If you find any bugs, please report them so they can be fixed.
• Thanks to the rewrite, Atmosphere now uses significantly less memory.
  • Roughly 10 additional megabytes are now available for custom system modules to use.
  • This means you can potentially run more custom system modules simultaneously.
    • If system modules are incompatible, please ask their authors to reduce their memory footprints.
• Atmosphere’s configuration layout has had major changes.
  • Configuration now lives inside /atmosphere/config/.
  • Atmosphere code now knows what default values should be, and includes them in code.
    • It is no longer an error if configuration inis are not present.
  • Correspondingly, Atmosphere no longer distributes default configuration inis.
    • Templates are provided in /atmosphere/config_templates.
  • loader.ini was renamed to override_config.ini.
  • This fixes the longstanding problem that atmosphere updates overwrote user configuration when extracted.
• Atmosphere’s process override layout was changed.
  • Atmosphere now uses the /atmosphere/contents directory, instead of /atmosphere/titles.
    • This goes along with a refactoring to remove all reference to « title id » from code, as Nintendo does not use the term.
  • To make this transition easier, a temporary functionality has been added that migrates folders to the new directory.
    • When booting into 0.10.0, Atmosphere will rename /atmosphere/titles/ to /atmosphere/contents/.
      • This functionality may or may not be removed in some future update.
    • This should solve any transition difficulties for the typical user.
    • Please make sure that any future mods you install extract to the correct directory.
• Support for configuring override keys for hbl was improved.
  • The key used to override applications versus a specific program can now be different.
    • The key to override a specific program can be managed via override_key.
    • The key to override any app can be managed via override_any_app_key.
  • Default override behavior was changed.
    • By default, atmosphere will now override the album applet with hbl unless R is held.
    • By default, atmosphere will now override any application with hbl only if R is held.
• The default amount of applet memory reserved has been slightly increased.
  • This allows the profile selector applet to work by default in applet mode.
• The way process override status is captured was changed.
  • Process override keys are now captured exactly once, when the process is created.
    • This fixes the longstanding issue where letting go of the override button partway into the process launch could cause problems.
  • The Mitm API was changed to pass around override status.
    • Mitm services now know what keys were held when the client was created, as well as whether the client is HBL/should override contents.
  • An extension was added to pm:info to allow querying a process’s override status.
• Thanks to process override capture improvements, hbl html behavior has been greatly improved.
  • Web applets launched by hbl will now always see the /atmosphere/hbl_html filesystem
• Support was added to exosphere for enabling usermode access to the PMU registers.
  • This can be controlled via exosphere!enable_user_pmu_access in BCT.ini.
• An enormous number of minor bugs were fixed.
  • dmnt’s cheat VM had a fix for an inversion in opcode behavior.
  • An issue was fixed in fs.mitm’s management of domain object IDs that could lead to system corruption in rare cases.
  • The Mitm API no longer silently fails when attempting to handle commands passing C descriptors.
    • On previous atmosphere versions, certain commands to FS would silently fail due to this…
      • No users reported any visible errors, but it was definitely a problem behind the scenes.
    • These commands are now handled correctly.
  • Atmosphere can now display a fatal error screen significantly earlier in the boot process, if things go wrong early on.
  • The temporary hid mitm will no longer sometimes cause games to fail to detect input.
  • Mitm Domain object ID management no longer desynchronizes from the host process.
  • An issue was fixed that could cause service acquisition to hang forever if certain sm commands were called in a precise order.
  • An off-by-one was fixed that could cause memory corruption in server memory management.
  • … and too many more bugs fixed to reasonably list them all 🙂
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

For information on the featureset supported by 0.10.0, please see the official release notes.