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It's been eight months since we last looked at a major update to the popular Android rooting tool Magisk, and a lot's happened since then — like the release of Android 12 back in October. That makes it high time for an update, and on Wednesday developer John Wu (a.k.a. topjohnwu on GitHub) shared some good news for anyone anxiously awaiting root, with the announcement of the public beta for the powerful new Magisk v24.0.
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Magisk developer John Wu now works for the Android Platform Security team
Magisk developer Hung-Lin "John" Wu (aka topjohnwu at many venues) has just started working for Google — on the Android Platform Security team, no less. For those without the context to pick up on the irony, that means John Wu is now working for the group inside Google that Magisk and SafetyNet-circumventing Magisk Hide have been playing cat and mouse with for the last several years.
Among Android root and ROM enthusiasts, the name John Wu is well known, being attached to the developer responsible for Magisk. Wu's systemless root solution has had a blistering development pace, repeatedly beating Google when it comes to the cat and mouse game imposed by SafetyNet and other system changes. But today the 23-year-old developer has announced a surprising career move: He's going to be an intern at Apple for the next four months.
Magisk developer John Wu has a history of quickly rooting both new phones and Android versions almost as soon as they land, but he's exceeded his own already high standards today. Android Q may only exist for consumers as leaked, half-built, buggy builds circulating among forums, but Wu has already rooted it.
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- In short order, v17.3 has been promoted to Magisk's beta channel. Pixel 3 owners won't need to worry about using the canary releases now — if that's something that bothered them. Magisk developer topjohnwu has also published a changelog which details a few of the particulars behind the Pixel 3-specific tweaks, as well as other patches and improvements that happened with this latest release.
Magisk developer topjohnwu is nothing if not prolific. A mere two days after the Pixel 3's formal launch (and just a day after receiving his own phone), he's already achieved root via Magisk on Google's latest flagship. Those hoping for root on their own Pixel 3s probably won't have much longer to wait for a stable release.
Magisk, one of the most recognized and well-known rooting solutions around, has just received an update to version 16.0. The update comes just a short week after version 15.4 was released, and includes a bootloop fix, support for Huawei and Honor devices with Treble (the Mate 10, 10 Pro, and View 10), and a few other changes.