💎 Another gem silently released within r2-6.0.8 was carefully crafted by @oleavr who tweaked the build system to get an XCFramework ready to be used for iOS and macOS development 🍎
That's compiled in the GitHub CI and ships the most common libraries and plugins of #radare2 to create native apps in #Swift
The SwiftyR2 repository provides an easy, safe and asynchronous API that's based on top of the zero-dependency and self-contained #C libraries of #radare2 (which are also directly available from Swift without the need to create wrappers or bindings).
👉 Check this out! https://github.com/radareorg/SwiftyR2
⭐️ r2-6.0.8 https://github.com/radareorg/radare2/releases/tag/6.0.8
Ignoring the usual stability and performance improvements, this new version ships:
👾 Pseudodisasm for sBPF, VAX, SNES, 6502 and MSP430
🔧 Assemble more instructions for m68k, arm32, arm64, x86-64 and sBPF
📱Better ObjC support, load MobiCore MBN firmwares, debug arm64 fpu registers, support XNU IOKit class carving, new process_vm:// based IO for Android
👁️New visual matrix mode, improved terminal (older size less serials and the latest ansi controls).
🚢 Initial UEFI, improved WASM and macppc ports, fixes for r2pm on Windows
☢️ Added SEEK_HOLE support, more work towards the use of analysis plugins, better expose mangled names
🐚Experimental autoflagspaces, remote filesystems expose file sizes and the webserver now supports r2pipe POST calls
📘Auto document major APIs in manpages
Things I DON'T want in my tech
• Spying
• AI
• "AI"
• Lies
• The thinnest touchscreen
• The largest touchscreen
• An app that is 15 apps
• An app that does things I don't know about
• A popup asking "Now?" or "Later?" without a "Never!" option
• An update that makes it all worse
• Exploding batteries
Things I DO want in my tech
• Privacy 🔒
• Security 🛡️
• Repairability 🛠️
• Pretty interfaces
• Buttons
Source Code exhibition with UNESCO Software Heritage fundation Software Heritage, in collaboration with UNESCO and Inria (the French National Institute for Research in Digital Sciences and Technologies), invites authors , historians, artists and museum professionals to contribute their stories of code as a cultural artifact. The exhibition will be part of the celebration of Software Heritage's
This is a milestone for the ZX Spectrum game development, possibly for the 8-bit gamedev altogether - there will be surely knock offs. Rare when a Speccy game makes an impression on people who know little about the platform.
https://www.indieretronews.com/2025/08/cubix-first-3d-platformer-of-its-kind.html?m=1
