We've seen it time and time again: an OFW update drops by, CFW gets broken, the devs start working and everything gets fixed eventually. However, looks like this time it's sooner rather than later for the Switch scene, as Atmosphère 0.8.8 has just been released thanks to the efforts of @SciresM and his team!

The key feature this time around is, of course, firmware 8.0.0 support, which was released by Nintendo earlier this month. While it's still recommended for patched units to avoid updating, as the new OFW fully fixed the vulnerabilities used by the upcoming dejà vu exploit chain, unpatched units can now install it and enjoy CFW safely. Some bugfixes are also included, as well as custom exception handlers for Stratosphère modules.

One last important detail to keep in mind is that fusee-primary was updated with this version: you'll need to update it in case you're using it, otherwise Atmosphère may not boot properly.

As usual, you can find the full changelog below:

0.8.8 is Atmosphère's fifteenth official release.

fusee-primary was last updated in: 0.8.8.

With thanks to the @switchbrew team, Atmosphère 0.8.8 is bundled with hbl 2.1, and hbmenu 3.0.1.

The following was changed since the last release:

• Support was added for firmware version 8.0.0.
• Custom exception handlers were added to stratosphere modules.
  • If a crash happens in a core atmosphere module now, instead of silently failing a reboot will occur to log the information to the SD card.
• A bug was fixed in creport that caused games to hang when crashing under certain circumstances.
• A bug was fixed that prevented maintenance mode from booting on 7.0.0+.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user's experience.

For information on the featureset supported by 0.8.0, please see the official release notes.

UPDATE: A hotfix was released for people having issues with the CFW.

Just swapped out the 0.8.8 Atmosphere release build to hotfix a bug -- a service ("apm:p") was removed in 8.0.0, and Atmosphere's attempt to support this caused older games that might access it to fail to launch. If you saw that issue, try re-downloading ams...sorry about that!

— Michael (@SciresM) April 21, 2019

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GBAtemp thread

 

[fst312]

Now smash works apparently reinstalling update actually did the trick but this time around when I installed it, I didn’t use usb install, I installed using my sd card, I’m happy I was able to use nxmpt to put my file in my sd card.
Going to attempt doing this to an aca game now, got to see if I can get elevator action to work, that game never worked for me, I’ll post an update on that as soon as I test it.
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Elevator action did not work.

 

[xenon]

Now smash works apparently reinstalling update actually did the trick but this time around when I installed it, I didn’t use usb install, I installed using my sd card, I’m happy I was able to use nxmpt to put my file in my sd card.
Going to attempt doing this to an aca game now, got to see if I can get elevator action to work, that game never worked for me, I’ll post an update on that as soon as I test it.
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Elevator action did not work.

Yes, I did have the same exact error. Interesting that you fixed Smash by replacing an update. Of course not all ACA games have updates, but now, since they clearly share a common codebase and framework, I am wondering whether their updates affect the whole ACA platform. Two things I am sure of: I could run at least certain ACA games a while ago and I now can't even run games I never installed before (meaning they have no history of tickets, updates etc on my device).

 

[Chocola]

For all despited users that update to 8.0.1, this nightly build should work:

https://bsnx.lavatech.top/atmosphere/atmosphere-0.8.8-d44b918.zip

 

[xenon]

Now smash works apparently reinstalling update actually did the trick but this time around when I installed it, I didn’t use usb install, I installed using my sd card, I’m happy I was able to use nxmpt to put my file in my sd card.
Going to attempt doing this to an aca game now, got to see if I can get elevator action to work, that game never worked for me, I’ll post an update on that as soon as I test it.
Edit
Elevator action did not work.

I eventually found out it was Incognito causing my issues. Undoing what it does made those games work. I had never tried before, but Elevator Action also works. So if you're using Incognito, maybe try what I did and see if it makes a difference for you, too.

I just found out that 90DNS also breaks those games.

 

[fst312]

I eventually found out it was Incognito causing my issues. Undoing what it does made those games work. I had never tried before, but Elevator Action also works. So if you're using Incognito, maybe try what I did and see if it makes a difference for you, too.

I just found out that 90DNS also breaks those games.

Ok than in my case it might be 90dns. Never used incognito.