MOXiI 2 - State of the trilogy (Dec 2018)

[morpheus]

Hello All! A few things:

- AAPL is (intentionally?) holding me back from updating Vol II. I was informally promised the sources the week after Thanksgiving. That was two weeks ago. This week they released the Darwin 18 sources... EXCEPT XNU. This is quite unprecedented, but I'm at their mercy here. I don't want to publish Vol II only to have to update it first thing.

- A year later, Volume I is due for its first major update - v1.2 has details on thread policies, Remote XPC, and an entirely new chapter on networking. Overall some 50+ more pages. See http://NewOSXBook.com/ChangeLog.html#v12 . This is also the last update I am planning for Volume I.

- When Volume II finally does come out, the good news is that the deluxe hardcover and color edition set (of all three) will be available. The bad news is that, outside typos (which I'm sure it has aplenty), I am effectively ending the frequent updates of the books. Darwin 18 is the last version I intend to "support", and the OSes will have to keep evolving without me to document every subtle mutation.

J

[jeffball]

Looks like they finally dropped the new XNU source code on https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/xnu/

They still haven't updated https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-1014.html yet though.

[morpheus]

Yeah. I saw that when they did (kept refreshing and @S1guza told me, too So for those of you reading - that means I can finish the trilogy at last. That said, the 2-3 weeks I was allocating for this end this week. Next two I already scheduled a much needed vacation (thinking I'd be hard at work on the book .. ) So ETA is for mid Jan 2019. That said, I don't foresee much delays. mid Jan 2019, give or take a week, is it.

[gilby]

But is here now https://opensource.apple.com/release/macos-10141.html

[jeffball]

Awesome, can't wait.

[RandomDSdevel]

Yeah. I saw that when they did (kept refreshing and @S1guza told me, too So for those of you reading - that means I can finish the trilogy at last. That said, the 2-3 weeks I was allocating for this end this week. Next two I already scheduled a much needed vacation (thinking I'd be hard at work on the book .. ) So ETA is for mid Jan 2019. That said, I don't foresee much delays. mid Jan 2019, give or take a week, is it.

     Any updates here? I'd still like to buy the color combined trilogy.

[fpasswd]

With the new exploit just came out for iOS 12, do you plan to update volume III of the trilogy in the near future?

[forums]

When you finish the book, how long will it take for the publisher to print it?

[morpheus]

To update:

- Manuscript is nearing completion at this time (Feb 23rd). Some work remains, but the main parts are over. I'm hoping all it takes is a couple more weeks.

- When I do finish, if I can get it reviewed fast enough, printing it is another week.

- Yes, I know this is past schedule. Sorry. When you see the level of detail I hope you'll also see why it took so darn long (and agree it was worth the wait).

J

P.S -

Re: Volume III - the last thing I have time for now Is another update for another JB. voucher_swap is really yet-another-UaF, and the methods of post exploitation are basically the same (QiLin works just the same). Plus, Vol III is almost 540 pages...

[acheronfail]

So glad to hear we’re near the end.

Don’t rush! Happy to wait because these books are pure gold.

You can count on me to order the whole colour trilogy once this last one comes out as well!