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Chainfire releases v2.82 of SuperSU, drops support for Android 2.1 and 2.2, fixes bugs and more

Some of the latest updates to SuperSU have been rather buggy, but a new update fixes some issues that had been reported and also includes the following changing. . .

- supolicy: Newer libsupol version used
- su: Fix sdk parameter not always being passed to supolicy in system mode

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- su: Fix su.d scripts running in the wrong mount context (introduced by ODP sdcardfs fix)
- CCMT: Update language files
- CCMT: Update guide screen
- CCMT: Update privacy policy screen
- CCMT: Updater: remove 4.3 and 5.0 specific upgrade messages, replace with generic; and detect if root must be manually updated
- CCMT: Drop support for Android 2.1 and 2.2. Minimum is now 2.3 (SDK 9, up from 7)
- su: Update mount namespace separation code to improve sdcardfs compatibility
- su: Fix kernel panic on ODP1/2 on 5X/6P
- su: Fix ODP1 compatibility on Pixel (XL)
- launch_daemonsu: Revert previous ODP1 work-around
- sukernel: Add option to patch out optional /data encryption (encryptable)
- suinit: cleanup /boot
- ZIP: Get boot image from fstab last-effort
- ZIP: Add REMOVEENCRYPTABLE flag to force disable encryption on newer Samsung firmwares
- ZIP: Fix slow /dev/random on some devices, apparently freezing install at "Creating image"
- ZIP: Fix LD_LIBRARY_PATH for hex-patch execution
- supolicy: Fix applying deferred allow rules
- supolicy: Fix setting impossible XPERM causing policy corruption
- supolicy: Add policies for ODP1
- launch_daemonsu: Work-around kernel panic on ODP1 on 5X/6P. Forces service mode for ODP1 on all devices.
- Fix erroneously deleting SuperSU's copy of app_process on 6.0 since 2.79-SR1
- GUI: Fix app_process requirement detection when supersu context used
- Fully eliminate sugote binary, no longer needed due to SELinux handling improvements in earlier versions
- Support /system/xbin/sush as default shell
- Adjust LD_PRELOAD filtering to exclude suhide's libraries
- ZIP: Motorola: default to systemless mode
- supolicy: fix some segfaults(NPEs) in pre-7.0 sepolicy handling
- ZIP: write boot block device once instead of twice (@_alexndr)
- (c) 2017 + CCMT
- Expand Samsung detection
- GUI: reworked portions to work with 'supersu' context on 7.0+
- GUI: fix binary update notice when superuser disabled by user in some cases
- su: reworked portions to work with 'supersu' context on 7.0+
- su/GUI: improve responsiveness when device busy on 7.0+
- sukernel: fix cpio restore failure with very short filenames
- sukernel: no longer patches file_contexts(.bin)
- sukernel: revert force seclabel (no longer needed with 'supersu' context)
- supolicy: add "create", "auditallow", "auditdeny" policy commands
- supolicy: support "*" for permission/range parameter of "allow", "deny", "auditallow", "auditdeny", "allowxperm" policy commands
- supolicy: -live/--file no longer apply default patches if custom patches are supplied
supolicy: -sdk=X option added (required for 7.0+)
supolicy: reworked all SELinux rules for 7.0+, run as 'supersu' context
- ZIP: Separate slotselect and system_root logic
- ZIP: Adjust system/system_root device and mount-point detection
- ZIP: Fix minor errors in documentation
- ZIP/frp: Explicitly label /su
 
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