The modding community's favourite greek goddesses are ready to bless your Switch once more. Hekate v5.1.0 is out now and it features full FW 9.1.0 compatibility - but that's just the tip of the iceberg! Many improvements have been made under the hood, such as quicker boot times, support for Android fastboot, low battery shutdown and a bunch of other miscellaneous fixes. Nyx received several enhancements too: eMMC verification is even faster than before, GFX-related functions got speedier as well and the console's fan will now start spinning if the temperature gets too high (because no one likes an overheating system!).

Before you upgrade, however, here is a quick (but important!) warning: you must overwrite the bootloader directory on your SD card with the one found in the release's ZIP before launching Hekate 5.1.0, just swapping the RCM .bin payload is not enough this time around. You will very likely encounter issues if you choose not to do so, as some of Hekate's dependencies received mandatory critical updates. Finally, the bootloader will now skip patches_template.ini and only look for patches.ini instead to avoid user confusion, plus, empty patches are no longer allowed because they were never needed in the first place. Still, you will be unaffected by this last change if you've set up the aforementioned INI files correctly before.

If you want to learn more about a specific feature or read all the fixes included in this update, check out the full changelog below:

This version supports booting ALL current OS/CS CFW, Linux chainloading and payload tools.
No more SD card removals

Latest HOS supported: 9.1.0
New in this version

• Full support for 9.1.0
• Faster and better DRAM training
  This performance change affects both hekate and Nyx.
  libsys_minerva.bso was updated and the update is mandatory.
  If you notice slow performance in hekate or Nyx, you forgot to drag n drop the bootloader folder from release.
• Even faster HOS boot
  Because of the aforementioned change, HOS now boots even faster.
• Enabled Low Battery Shutdown when voltage is less than 2.8V
  This will help with many users that kill their battery by forgetting their devices into RCM/AutoRCM.
• Fixed an issue with some users hanging in black screen or logo for Nyx loading
  This is unrelated with HOS boot issues.
• Fixed a critical issue with heap collapsing on edge cases. Thanks @shchmue.
  Additionally, heap management became more robust and fragments way less often.
• Added support for entering fastboot on Android.
  This requires of pressing VOL+ first and while holding it, also start holding VOL-.
• External patches only look for patches.ini now
  The reason is that patches_template.ini is now useless and no one should install homebrew when title replacement exists.
  Also because apparently it confuses users into thinking that it takes precedence over patches.ini, even though it explained countless of times that it's only loaded if patches.ini is not found.
  Lastly there's a confusion where users thought that empty patches is not the same with no patches, even though it's exactly the same. So now any empty patch will throw an error.
  To sum up, removed to simplify the process because of user errors.
• Fixed an issue with force shutdown timeout, where it would power off if PWR button was pressed for 2s. It's now back to 6s.
• Fixed instant boot to menu ("bootloop") on errors. Now hekate will properly wait for user input in order to go back to menu.
• Fixed an issue with tsec keys, where KFUSE didn't have enough time to initialize.
• Fixed an issue where double defined patches (like NOGC), would fail the process. Now any reapplied patch, will be properly marked as applied.
• Countless refactors and bugfixes in hw init and drivers
• Many general bugfixes

New in emuMMC

• 9.1.0 support

The binary is based on m4xw/emuMMC@bd81a67

Nyx v0.8.3

• 9.1.0 support for info and tools
• GFX rendering and generally many functions in Nyx are now faster
• Refactored SHA calculation for faster verification
  Verification is now able to calculate the 1st buffer SHA while the 2nd buffer is read.
• Fan is now activated if temperatures are high
• Battery Voltage value is now Orange if lower than 3200mV
• Countless refactors and bugfixes in hw init and drivers
• Many general bugfixes

Check readme.md for more.

Lastly, keep an eye for the big Nyx update!

NOTE: You will need sept and a custom secmon and warmboot binary to boot 7.0.0-9.0.1 or stock emuMMC.
Warning: HOS 9.1.0 needs a new sept. If not updated, hekate will show pkg2 decryption error. On the other hand, hekate can still load older sept versions for 9.0.X.
Warning2: New bootloader contents are mandatory. Because they are new, you must not mix them with older hekate versions. hekate package is made for an easy drag n drop that can be used to replace the files.

UPDATE: Hekate v5.1.1 & Nyx 0.8.4 have since been released, which includes a few bug fixes & improvements and an updater for update.bin/reboot_payload.bin.

Source
GBAtemp thread

 

[PatrickD85]

Nice, my preferred way to run payloads and the like

 

[MSearles]

I've never used Hekate. I use SX OS. Is there any reason I should have Hekate installed on my Switch?

 

[ignare]

I've never used Hekate. I use SX OS. Is there any reason I should have Hekate installed on my Switch?

Lakka is what I use it for. Hekate will always be one of the best ways to let you see more info and settings for you Switch,

 

[lordelan]

Very nice. I only wish there was a way to use Android and an emuMMC that is compatible with Atmosphère and SX OS on the same SD card.
Doesn't seem like @TariqSoftDev is coming around with his multi sd card solution soon™ sadly.

 

[Deleted member 397813]

nice

 

[MasterJ360]

And with that I will update my stock firmware thank you Hekate team such a reliable payload

 

[kai_dranzer2003]

god blessing the sceners

 

[Something whatever]

Got an error {No .ini or boot entire found}

I think I deleled my ini file...any help please

 

[DjWesley]

hello, after update i get the "pkg2 decryption failed error ... is sept updated?"
how do I solve this? any help ?

 

[Danethos86]

im confused on how to do payload atm using tegra and only sees the hakate 5.0.2 and not new 5.1.1 or ...5.1.0 what can i use for new payload or is tegra missing something?

 

[linuxares]

Hekate got updated to 5.1.1 yesterday and Nyx 0.8.4. Run them @Danethos86 since they're updated with bugfixes and even faster boot!

 

[Akira]

Hekate got updated to 5.1.1 yesterday and Nyx 0.8.4. Run them @Danethos86 since they're updated with bugfixes and even faster boot!

Does it come with sigpatches already or i have to download it separately?

 

[pLaYeR^^]

Does it come with sigpatches already or i have to download it separately?

You have to download them separately.

 

[linuxares]

Does it come with sigpatches already or i have to download it separately?

Hekate will never come with signature patches.

 

[Danethos86]

Basically wanna know how to send a payload to hakate sense tegra rcm will only detect my 5.0.2 payload and not the new 5.1.1
Is there something i am doing to not have tegra detect the new payload to send?

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Very nice. I only wish there was a way to use Android and an emuMMC that is compatible with Atmosphère and SX OS on the same SD card.
Doesn't seem like @TariqSoftDev is coming around with his multi sd card solution soon™ sadly.

It will come soon, I'm just working on the modchip, been more active on the discord heh.

 

[lordelan]

It will come soon, I'm just working on the modchip, been more active on the discord heh.

Which Discord?

 

[TariqSoftDev]

Which Discord?

https://discord.gg/V9BRfUM

This one, the modchip is having Triple eMMC added to it onboard heh.

 

[lordelan]

https://discord.gg/V9BRfUM

This one, the modchip is having Triple eMMC added to it onboard heh.

Now that's something! Thank you