PhoneCloudify changelog — every release since 2020

Every release since v1.0, including the ones we are not proud of.

v9.415 releases since 2020

Releases

Every release since v1.0

v9.4 · 16 July 2026 major

Snapchat Device Attestation v4 support

  • Full support for Snap's attestation v4 shipped 12 July. Keymaster chain, TEE version reporting and model-whitelist coherence all updated. Canary fleet showed 0.0% ban rate across 200 registrations.
  • New PhoneCloudifyOS 5.4 builds for A1, A2 Pro and Node X.
  • Android 16 beta available on Scale in eu-west and us-east.
  • Camera injection now supports 4K60 HDR with per-model sensor noise profiles.
v9.3 · 28 May 2026 minor

Mobile IP pool expansion

  • 38 new countries added to the 4G pool, bringing coverage to 187.
  • 5G carrier IPs now available in 94 countries, up from 61.
  • Sticky sessions can now be pinned for the full life of an identity.
  • Fixed a rare race condition in IP rebinding after a node migration.
v9.2 · 2 April 2026 minor

RPA v3 and rate guardrails

  • Rewritten RPA engine, 4× faster on long flows.
  • Per-network rate guardrails derived from surviving-account data, on by default.
  • 52 new templates including TikTok Shop seller onboarding and Snapchat public profile setup.
  • Flows can now branch on device state and API responses.
v9.0 · 11 February 2026 major

PhoneCloudify Node X and PhoneCloudifyOS 5

  • Launched the Node X flagship: Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, 16/512, 50 isolated identities.
  • PhoneCloudifyOS 5 with secure-enclave identity virtualisation. Identity switch time down from 6s to 2s.
  • Play Integrity STRONG on all Growth, Scale and hardware devices.
  • Ban Shield guarantee extended to Growth (previously Scale only).
v8.6 · 19 November 2025 incident

Snapchat Device Attestation v3 — 61-hour response

  • Snap shipped attestation v3 on 14 November with no warning and a substantially reworked keymaster check. Our patch took 61 hours, our worst response time since 2023. 1,847 customer accounts were lost in the window.
  • Every affected account was credited under Ban Shield and rebuilt free of charge, at a cost to us of roughly $91,000.
  • Post-mortem published. We have since added continuous keymaster fuzzing to the canary pipeline, which would have caught this in under 20 hours.
v8.4 · 8 September 2025 minor

Human input synthesis v2

  • Touch events now carry pressure, contact area and tilt sampled from a 4,200-hour trace library.
  • Per-identity motion personality: stable gait, dominant hand and daily rhythm.
  • Typing cadence models including typos, corrections and thinking pauses.
  • Measured 41% reduction in behavioural flags on Instagram.
v8.0 · 24 June 2025 major

Ban Shield launch

  • The internal detection-tracking pipeline became a product feature with a published SLA.
  • Continuous APK diffing across 27 apps. Median patch time at launch: 27 hours, now 19.
  • Live ban-rate telemetry exposed in the console, per network, benchmarked against the fleet average.
  • Ban Shield guarantee introduced on Scale.
v7.2 · 17 February 2025 minor

Team seats free forever

  • Removed per-seat pricing entirely. Seats are now free on every plan, unlimited from Scale.
  • Role-based access control with device-group scoping.
  • Exportable audit trails in CSV and JSON.
  • White-label console branding for agencies.
v7.0 · 30 October 2024 major

Carrier mobile IPs included

  • 4G carrier IPs bundled with Growth and above at no extra cost — the change that made us cheaper than GeeLark in practice.
  • Real SIM per node in 149 countries at launch.
  • Cell-tower and GPS coherence engine.
  • Kernel-level leak protection for DNS, WebRTC and IPv6.
v6.0 · 14 May 2024 major

Bare-metal migration complete

  • Every cloud node moved from shared ARM hosts to dedicated bare-metal SoCs. One tenant per core cluster.
  • This is the release that took our Snapchat survival from 51% to 89%.
  • Provisioning time down from 84 seconds to 11.
  • Retired the last container-based region.
v5.0 · 2 November 2023 major

Physical hardware line launched

  • First PhoneCloudify handset, the A1, shipped to 340 customers in its first month.
  • PhoneCloudifyOS 3 with 8 isolated identities per device.
  • Rack 10 introduced for operators wanting turnkey farms.
v4.0 · 20 March 2023 major

Sensor telemetry engine

  • Replaced synthetic sensor values with recorded human motion traces. 1,100 hours at launch.
  • Instagram survival went from 62% to 91% on this release alone.
  • Barometer, light and proximity sensors added.
v3.0 · 11 August 2022 major

REST API and RPA v1

  • Public API with device lifecycle, identity and proxy endpoints.
  • First version of the visual RPA builder, 18 templates.
  • Python and Node SDKs.
v2.0 · 29 September 2021 major

Hardware-bound identities

  • Moved from software fingerprint spoofing to identities bound at the bootloader.
  • Global exclusion list so no IMEI is ever reissued.
  • First paying customers outside the founding team's own farm.
v1.0 · 5 November 2020 major

PhoneCloudify exists

  • Two founders, one rack of Snapdragon dev boards in a Shenzhen office, and a Snapchat farm that kept dying.
  • 12 devices. All internal. It worked, so we kept going.

Six years of shipping.

Including the releases we are not proud of. That is the point of publishing them.

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