Updates

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• 2026-09-14 - Andrew Rice submitted a Rockbox port of iPod nano (3rd generation) that has a working NAND/FTL driver! ✨
• 2026-03-30 - Some of us will be at GPN24 in Karlsruhe! Let us know on IRC/Discord/Matrix if you're also there!
• 2025-12-28 - Hug0 made a lightning talk at 39C3 on iPod Nano reverse engineering.
• 2025-12-26 - Some of us will be at 39C3 in Hamburg! Get in touch with q3k and/or Slackware if you're around!
• 2025-06-12 - Some of us will be at GPN23 in Karlsruhe! Let us know on IRC/Discord/Matrix if you're also there!
• 2024-12-25 - Some of us will be at 38C3 in Hamburg! Come say hi!
• 2024-12-16 - S5Late, a tethered iPod bootrom/DFU exploit for iPod nano (7th generation) (and possibly iPod nano (6th generation)), is released.
• 2023-12-28 - ipod_sun, a tool that enables code execution on the iPod nano (6th generation) and iPod nano (7th generation), is released.

• 2023-01-07 - A preliminary U-Boot port to the iPod nano (5th generation) has been developed.
• 2022-01-04 - The bootrom of iPod nano (5th generation) was successfully dumped, and is in the process of being reverse-engineered!
• 2021-12-31 - An exploit named wInd3x, which exploits the latest vulnerability, is being prepared for iPod nano (4th generation) and iPod nano (5th generation).
• 2021-12-27 - A new vulnerability was discovered in iPod nano (4th generation) and iPod nano (5th generation) bootrom, which allows arbitrary code execution!
• 2018-08-25 - The website software has been updated to MediaWiki 1.31 after about 2 months of downtime.
• 2016-06-17 - The freemyipod project is becoming deprecated, as parts of the code is slowly being integrated in Rockbox. It is likely that no future development on the freemyipod project will take place. Essential parts of emCORE helped building a Rockbox bootloader for iPod Classic, and any future development will take place in the Rockbox project.
• 2014-03-26 - A bug that prevented emCORE installations on certain Windows configurations (getting stuck on "Booting UBI file..."), has been finally fixed! If the installation has failed for you before, you can retry it using the updated version of our tool (use the iTunes method for now).
• 2012-01-02 - There have been some problems with the latest release. A hotfix release (r859) has been published to fix some of these problems. iPod nano (2nd generation) users are advised to upgrade. See the release details page for more information.
• 2012-01-01 - A new release (r855) is out! It includes a couple of new features, several bugfixes and a new bootmenu theme! More information on the release details page.
• 2011-04-25 - The emCORE kernel now runs on the iPod Touch 2G as well, thanks to the help of kleemajo. This is of course not a fully functional port yet, but we'll see how it continues. It's about the same state as the iPod nano (4th generation) now. /7
• 2011-03-25 - emCORE is replacing emBIOS completely now. Therefore emBIOS will be deprecated software as of now! All emBIOS users are advised to upgrade to emCORE including people using iLoader 0.2.2 or less. More detailed update instructions will follow!
• 2011-01-08 - The Rockbox port for the iPod Classic is slowly getting usable. Most of the blocking issues have been fixed. The first-generation 160GB model still doesn't work, and some people are experiencing slightly garbled display contents.
• 2011-01-04 - There is an early Rockbox port for the iPod Classic! It still isn't quite usable, playback stutters etc., but if you want to play around with it, here are some quick'n'dirty notes on the installation procedure: EmCORE Installation
• 2010-11-22 - We now have emBIOS support for the iPod classic 1g, the others might follow soon
• 2010-08-29 - We're proud to announce the release of emBIOS v0.1.0 and iLoader v0.2.0!
• 2010-08-26 - iLoader, its installer and uninstaller all have been fully ported to emBIOS now. A beta release will be coming soon!
• 2010-08-13 - emBIOS is continually being improved and the next step is porting tools like iLoader to use it.
• 2010-08-06 - The wiki has now been moved to www.freemyipod.org
• 2010-08-05 - Recently we've been working on a hardware abstraction project called emBIOS. Follow development here
• 2010-08-03 - We can now access the iPod nano (4th generation) accelerometer.
• 2010-08-02 - serpilliere managed to decrypt the NOR flash on the iPod nano (3rd generation).
• 2010-08-01 - serpilliere managed to access and dump the NOR flash on the iPod nano (3rd generation). This code could possibly work on the Classics.
• 2010-07-27 - The server got zapped by lightning but a new one was up and running within a day.
• 2010-02-23 - We can now execute code on everything besides the iPod nano (5th generation)! Minimalistic iBugger working on iPod nano (3rd generation)!
• 2009-11-01 - iBugger core v0.1 successfully running on iPod nano (4th generation)! [1]

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