Hello everyone, we're proud to announce OpenCore Legacy Patcher v0.2.5!
This release is one of our biggest yet including many long awaited features and fixes:
- Non-Metal Acceleration for Monterey
- Nvidia Kepler Acceleration for Monterey Beta 7+
- Wifi and Bluetooth support for legacy chipsets in Monterey
- Support for AMFI usage on non-Metal GPUs (ie. native Security and Privacy usage)
- FileVault support for Root Patched Macs
- Offline variant of TUI (for those without internet who want to root patch)
- FirmwareFeature upgrading for Monterey Beta 7+ upgrades/installs
And I want to give a huge thank you to all the developers who've helped out greatly, including @dhinakg, @ASentientBot and @educovas as many of these fixes would not be possible without their amazing work!
Changelog
Changelog Details
- Implement Latebloom configuration via command line tool
- Implement Root Volume backups in addition to APFS snapshot reversions
- Backups applicable to machines with sealed APFS snapshots
- Allow Root Patching on Mojave and Catalina
- Currently experimental
- Allow disabling of faulty Thunderbolt controllers on 2013-2014 MacBook Pros
- Currently limited to MacBookPro11,x
- Set iMacPro1,1 SMBIOS for Mac Pro and Xserve models
- Allows for wider array of OS support (High Sierra+)
- Use plist override for BCM943224 and BCM94331 support in Big Sur+
- Allows for older OS support through OpenCore
- Increment Binaries:
- OpenCore 0.7.2 release
- Lilu 1.5.5 release
- AppleALC 1.6.3 release
- WhateverGreen 1.5.2 release
- FeatureUnlock 1.0.3 release
- PatcherSupportPkg 0.1.2 release
- Allow iGPU/dGPU switching in Windows
- Applicable to MacBook Pros with Intel iGPU and Nvidia/AMD dGPU
- Clean up Patcher Settings
- Allow disabling of TeraScale 2 Acceleration during root volume patch
- Use for MacBookPro8,x with heavily degraded dGPUs
- Add non-Metal Monterey Acceleration
- Currently supports:
- Intel Ironlake and Sandy Bridge
- Nvidia Tesla
- AMD TeraScale 1 and 2
- Currently supports:
- Allow Trackpad gestures on MacBook4,1 and MacBook5,2
- System Preferences will not report settings however
- Allow Root Volume Patched Systems to use FileVault 2
- Requires macOS 11.3 (20E232) or newer
- Add offline TUI build
- Allows for root patching without network connection
- Add Legacy Wireless support for Monterey
- Applicable for BCM94328, BCM94322 and Atheros chipsets
- Add Legacy Bluetooth support for Monterey
- Applicable for BRCM2046 and BRCM2070 chipsets
- Disable Library Validation allowing for AMFI usage
- Remove reliance on amfi_get_out_of_my_way=1
- Add Kepler Accleration Patches for Monterey Beta 7 and newer
- Add FirmwareFeature upgrading to all Models
- Fixes Monterey Beta 7 installation issues
- Add iMac7,1 USB map