Two related changes that ship together because they touch the same
build-script + docs surface and were verified together on-device.
16 KiB alignment
- zygisk/build.rs: pass `-Wl,-z,max-page-size=16384` to lld so the
cdylib's LOAD segments line up on 16 KiB pages. NDK r28+ already
does this by default, but the flag keeps r27 builds compatible.
- lsposed/native/build.rs: new file, same flag, for libvpnhide_checks.so.
- docs/development.md: bumped the NDK requirement to r28+ and noted
the 16 KiB rationale.
Verified via `llvm-readelf -l`: both libvpnhide_zygisk.so and
libvpnhide_checks.so now show `Align 0x4000` on every LOAD segment.
Unified build entry points
- kmod/build.py replaces kmod/build-zip.py. Single script that
auto-detects whether to build natively (we're inside the DDK image
or `--kdir` was passed) or to spawn `ghcr.io/ylarod/ddk-min` via
podman/docker. CI uses the same script with `--inside-container`.
- zygisk/build-zip.py renamed to zygisk/build.py for symmetry; logic
unchanged.
- kmod/BUILDING.md rewritten — local build is now one command:
`./kmod/build.py --kmi android14-6.1` (or `--all`). The old
hand-rolled podman/docker recipes are gone.
- .github/workflows/ci.yml updated to call the new entry points.
The DDK image tag in CI now has a comment pointing at
`DDK_IMAGE_TAG` in kmod/build.py as the source of truth.
- README.{md,en.md}, kmod/README.md, zygisk/README.md, docs/releasing.md,
scripts/build_lib.py: reference updates.
- README.en.md: also fixes a "bacame" typo and tightens the Windows
zygisk-build note (the aux.rs / libgit2 issue is still real).
Verified end-to-end on Pixel 8 Pro (husky, android14-6.1, Android 16):
APK installs, kmod + zygisk modules load, all 26 self-checks PASS in
Enforcing, 22/26 PASS in Permissive (the same 4 by-design FAILs as
before — kmod doesn't cover those paths in Permissive).
3.4 KiB
Releasing
Model
VERSIONfile = the last released version onmain. It is only modified byrelease.py.changelog.d/*.md= work in progress. One Markdown file per unreleased entry, accumulated via./scripts/changelog.pyduring normal development. See changelog.md.- Intermediate builds (main, feature branches, local) get a version string derived from
git describe— propagated intomodule.prop/ APKversionNameat build time. See build versions below.
Cutting a release
- Make sure everything you want in the release is merged to
mainandchangelog.d/contains exactly the fragments that should appear in the release notes. - Run the release script with the new version:
Atomically:./scripts/release.py 0.6.2- rotates every fragment under
changelog.d/intohistory[0]withversion: "0.6.2"and deletes the fragment files, - writes
0.6.2toVERSION, - patches
versionName/versionCodein every module.prop, Cargo.toml, andbuild.gradle.kts, - regenerates
CHANGELOG.mdandupdate-json/changelog.md.
- rotates every fragment under
- Commit, tag, push:
git commit -am "chore: release v0.6.2" git tag v0.6.2 git push git push origin v0.6.2 - Wait for CI to finish the build. CI creates a draft GitHub release with all artifacts attached and release notes extracted from
CHANGELOG.md— review it on the Releases page and click Publish release when you're happy. - Generate update-json files pointing at the new release assets:
./scripts/update-json.sh - Commit and push:
git commit -am "chore: update-json for v0.6.2" git push
Why update-json is a separate commit
Update-json must be committed after the GitHub release is published (i.e. after you promote the draft to public). Magisk and KSU fetch these files to decide whether an update is available, then download the zip from the URL inside. Draft releases are private — their asset URLs require auth — so update-json must not point at them.
Notes
versionCodeis derived automatically byrelease.pyasmajor*10000 + minor*100 + patch(e.g.0.6.2→602).- If
changelog.d/is empty when you runrelease.py, it warns but proceeds — useful for version-only bumps. release.pyrefuses to release a version that already exists inhistory[].
Build versions
Every packaging step runs ./scripts/build-version.py to compute the version string stamped into the artifact:
- On a release tag
vX.Y.Z:X.Y.Z - N commits after the nearest tag:
X.Y.Z-N-gSHA(the git describe format) - Working tree dirty: additional
-dirtysuffix - No git / no tags: falls back to the
VERSIONfile
This string goes into:
module.propversion=...(visible in the Magisk/KSU manager app)- APK
versionName(visible in Android Settings → Apps, diagnostic debug zip,BuildConfig.VERSION_NAME) - Inside the zip filenames (only for release tags; dev artifacts in CI keep a stable name)
The committed module.prop files are not modified — kmod/build.py and zygisk/build.py stage a copy, patch the version there, and zip. lsposed/app/build.gradle.kts evaluates build-version.py at configure time and sets versionName dynamically.
versionCode stays at the value baked in by the last release.py run (monotonically increasing integer required by Android/Magisk).