PS4 System Software / Firmware 7.00 is Now Live, Don't Update!

Proceeding their previous PS4 OFW revision, PS4 Beta Updates, yesterday's announcement and Facebook Removal news today Sony officially released PS4 System Software / Firmware 7.00 live patching the PS4 Webkit Bad_Hoist Exploit for PlayStation 4 Firmware 6.XX!

As always DON'T UPDATE if you wish to use PS4 game backups and homebrew apps when a new jailbreak exploit arrives, and we'll add any related Tweets below as PlayStation 4 scene developers have a chance to examine it.

Download: PS4 Firmware 7.00 Update (US) / PS4 Firmware 7.00 Update (EU) / PS4 Firmware 7.00 Update (UK) / PS4 Firmware 7.00 Update (AU/NZ) / PS4 Firmware 7.00 Update (JP)

Here's the official 7.00 PS4 Firmware Changelog from Sony's page:

About PlayStation 4 system software version 7.00

Main features in version 7.00 update

• The following changes have been made to (Party).
  • The maximum number of people who can join a party has been increased from 8 to 16.
  • Chat transcription has been added, and accessibility has been improved.
    While in a party, use (PS4 Second Screen) *1 on your smartphone or other mobile device to convert party voice chat to text, or to enter text to have it read aloud to other party members.
    This feature works only in English and is available only on PS4 systems sold in certain regions.
  • Network connectivity has been improved.
  • Audio quality of voice chat has been improved.
• Remote Play can now be used on more devices.
  Besides Xperia devices, Remote Play can now be used on other smartphones and tablets running Android 5.0 or higher*2. Download (PS4 Remote Play) from Google Play to use this feature.
  Additionally, for mobile devices running Android 10, you can now connect a DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controller via Bluetooth for Remote Play*2*3.

*1 Download the latest version of PS4 Second Screen, available from Google Play or the App Store.
*2 Remote Play may not be compatible with every device.
*3 Depending on the device, certain features such as the touch pad and the vibration function may not be available.

Other updated features

• When using Remote Play on an iPhone or iPad, you can now do the following things. Select (Settings) on the Remote Play screen to switch to these settings.
  • iPhone or iPad: The controller can now be displayed at all times.
  • iPhone: You can now lock the screen orientation.
• You can now use a DUALSHOCK 4 wireless controller via Bluetooth for Remote Play on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac*.
  Update to the following OS to use this feature.
  • iOS 13
  • iPadOS 13
  • macOS Catalina

* Some features, such as the touch pad and the vibration function, may not be available on the iPhone and iPad.

Here are some guides for those new on How to Block PS4 Firmware Updates, How to Delete Downloaded PS4 Update PUPs that haven't been installed yet, How to Update to a Specific PS4 Firmware and also some PS4 HEN Update Blocker Payloads.

• Firmware 7.00.zip (446 MB - Decrypted) via Darthsternie's Firmware Archive

Download: pleasecomeagain_filesystem-7.00.7z (796.3 MB - PS4 7.00 Decrypted Filesystem and Kernel) / Mirror)
Who leaked/Decrypted them?
Well given that shuffle2 wrote the fail0verflow articles and loves emulators it was most likely his criminal dumb ass. Or it was vpikhur but he cool, so I wouldnt care. Or it was the Save Wizard asswipes, aka Wayne Hughes Beckett - an old employee of Datel, who have the rom.
Download: 100DVK.elf (17.80 MB - 1.00 devkit kernel)

• https://psxdev.github.io/luke.html

CEX 7.00 decrypted

r135061/release_branches/release_07.000 Oct 2 2019 05:28:54

• PS4 Kernel Build Strings

Thanks to the decryption of firmware 7.00. I received the source code of the PS4 application (NPXS24001).

Download: NPXS24001.zip (7.16 MB)

• PS4 app path /system_ex/rnps/apps/NPXS24001/
• Target firmware 7.00
• Author Yasich217

 

[jhonny82]

Issue is sure that arrives?? When?

 

[PSXHAX]

For those who missed it, PlayStation scene devs on a PS4 5.55+ jailbreak... basically they don't have another exploit chain after the private one, so it won't likely surface publicly until the PS4's EOL (end of life) unless someone finds a new exploit, etc.

 

[Viggen66]

It would be great to at least 5.55 Jailbreak would be out, we are almost at black friday, new consoles will be with this new 7.00 firmware, too bad no new releases after 5.05, emulation on PS4 would develop more and more

 

[bebaspeedino]

i think the update does not patch any kexploit's why the kexploit is a 0day.... not unpatchable but MORE difficult to discover it.

 

[Thien Tran]

I think Sony know the exploit but don't want to patch it. So no new exploit come out soon at least when ps5 come out or Sony don't care about it.

 

[bebaspeedino]

i disagree, dev don't wait to ps5 for release any exploit's because the ps4 does not die until minimum 6 years.

 

[kalpak]

so its out ! 7 now it is hmmm !

 

[bajolzas]

well those posts are around one year old now, so who knows... we have been having so many new fws since then, that sony may have messed up im some of them...

 

[TwojaStaraWOC]

@Thien Tran I agree with you because you may be right. The facts are that each exploit was published only after it was patched. That's why sony does nothing with this.