8.0.0

The Switch 8.0.0 system update was released on April 15, 2019. This Switch update was released for the following regions: ALL.

Security flaws fixed: Yes.

Change-log

Official ALL change-log:

• Added the following system functionality:
• A Sort Software feature is available after selecting to view All Software from the HOME Menu
• Software can be sorted by time last played, total play time, software title, and software publisher
• The All Software option displays when there are 13 or more software icons on the HOME Menu
• A View All Available News option is available within News, allowing you to view all news items currently being distributed
• Go to News > Channel List > View More
• Select from 15 new icons from the Splatoon™ 2 and Yoshi’s Crafted World™ games for your user
• To edit your user icon, head to your My Page on the top left of the HOME Menu > Profile
• A feature to Transfer Your Save Data is now available, allowing you to transfer your save data for individual games between your Nintendo Switch systems
• Go to System Settings > Data Management > Transfer Your Save Data
• Save data will not remain on your source system after the transfer process completes
• A Zoom feature can be enabled from within System Settings
• Go to System Settings > System to turn Zoom ON
• Once enabled, you can use the Zoom feature by pressing the HOME Button twice
• An option is available to prevent the system from waking from Sleep Mode when an AC adapter is disconnected
• Go to System Settings > Sleep Mode > Wake When AC Adapter is Disconnected
• This also applies when undocking your console
• A VR Mode (3D Visuals) restriction is available within Parental Controls
• This will also be available in the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app through a later update
• Go to System Settings > Parental Controls
• These settings can also be changed from within Nintendo Labo Toy-Con 04: VR Kit
• Hong Kong / Taiwan / South Korea is available for selection in Region
• Go to System Settings > System > Region
• The following names have been changed (functionality remains the same)
• Save Data Cloud Backup > Save Data Cloud
• Transfer Your User and Save Data > Transfer Your User Data
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

FIRM

All files under RomFS were updated.

Package1ldr

package1ldr was updated. The TSEC secureboot firmware was not updated.

NX_BOOTLOADER

NX bootloader was updated.

Secure Monitor

The Secure Monitor was updated.

• DMA controller configuration now disables AHB-DMA from arbitration.
• The SMC handler now checks a "is SMC allowed" bitmask against configuration set by NX bootloader(This just comes from bits 1-4 of the "attribute" field of the bootloader in BCT).
  • Nintendo can now blacklist certain SMCs from certain boot conditions, but since the bitmask is zero for retail firmware (everything is allowed) this isn't particularly meaningful.
• smcGetConfig's "get_memory_configuration_by_bootconfig" implementation changed. It now calls a new function "get_dram_configuration", which returns a configuration value depending on the DRAM ID.
• Code configuring what peripherals to set secure-world only no longer assumes that the code is a retail unit.
  • This removes what were presumed to be compile-time ifdefs for retail vs dev added in 7.0.0.
• Code responsible for configuring HiZ charger mode has changed a little.
  • smcCpuSuspend no longer checks hardware type when deciding whether to go down HiZ mode codepaths.
  • wakeup code on warmboot now checks whether HiZ mode is enabled, instead of unconditionally disabling it.
• TSEC no longer has access to the kernel carveout, and TSECB now has access to the kernel carveout.
  • The Read/Write access levels were changed from 1 to 9, to facilitate this.

Warmboot

• The firmware revision magic was not changed.

FIRM Sysmodules

All FIRM sysmodules were updated. Specific diffs for a few sysmodules are below <check back later, to be updated>:

PM

• pm:shell now has a new command (9), which currently just does abort(). However, it looks like in a future update it will return an event handle of some kind.

System Titles

• 1 new title was added: FunctionBlackList.
• All titles were updated, except for the following: dictionaries, UrlBlackList, PlatformConfigHoag, miiEdit, and flog.

FunctionBlackList

This contains /blacklist.dat which contains 8-bytes of zeros.

See Also

System update report(s):

• [1]