Switch devs SciresM, and CTCaer  have released updates for Atmosphère, and Hekate/Nyx respectively. The tool updates bring Switch firmware 16.0.0 compatibility, along with additional features an bug fixes.

Switch Firmware 16.0.0 was released earlier this week. Despite being a Major version, it doesn’t seem to bring much new to the table. From the official changelog:

• User nicknames that cannot be used will be replaced with “???” which can be updated from the profile settings.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

What are Atmosphère / Hekate for Nintendo Switch ?

Hekate is a bootloader for Nintendo Switch, and more general “swiss army knife” payload for any hackable Switch. Atmosphère is the most complete and used Custom Firmware on the Nintendo Switch. The combination of these two tools constitutes in my opinion the basics of hacking your Switch.

Lockpick_RCM lets you decrypt and export your Switch’s keys for use in various critical homebrew tools (such as hactool, hactoolnet/LibHac, ChoiDujour, etc…).

Atmosphère 1.5.0 update compatible with Switch 16.0.0 firmware

Along with 16.0.0 support, this update brings the following changes (from the official changelog)

• Support was added for 16.0.0
  • mesosphère was updated to reflect the latest official kernel behavior.
  • ncm was updated to reflect the latest official behavior.
  • Many FS apis were updated under the hood to reflect the latest official behavior.
  • Please Note: 16.0.0 made breaking changes to a number of system APIs, including in FS/NCM/Shared Font commands that some homebrew programs may use.
    • These programs may encounter strange errors, and may need to be recompiled with a libnx updated to support 16.0.0’s changes to function properly.
    • If you are an impacted developer, please contact SciresM#0524 on discord for assistance.
• A number of minor issues were fixed and improvements were made, including:
  • An issue was fixed that could cause GPIO outputs to be misconfigured under certain circumstances.
• General system stability improvements to enhance the user’s experience.

Hekate 6.0.2/ Nyx 1.5.2 update

Hekate 6.0.2:

• HOS 16.0.0 Support
• Fixed an issue which could, in some cases, cause Stock-mode to hang on boot on HOS 1.0.0 to 6.1.0.
• Fixed an issue on TUI mode where user could not access options without a hekate_ipl.ini
  In case hekate started with removed or broken SD and was plugged later
• L4T Loader: updated T210B01 SC7-Exit firmware to account for new burnt fuses count
• Various other improvements.

Nyx 1.5.2:

• HOS 16.0.0 Support
• Improve SD error handling on init. Added retries in case of failure.
  If it still fails to load them, now user will properly get a fatal error message.
• Added support for bpmpclock=3 which further reduces clock speed for the worst binned SoCs
  Additionally, the first boot clock test now lasts fro 10s on first boot, instead of 5s.
  To change bpmpclock, you need to manually edit nyx.ini, since it’s not in the GUI options.
• Reboot to OFW button now gets disabled if AutoRCM is enabled
• Fixed an issue on PKG1/2 dump tool which would produce incorrect binaries on PKG1 dumping.
• Various improvements/fixes

Download Atmosphère, Hekate, Lockpick_RCM with Switch 16.0.0 support

• You can download Atmosphère 1.5.0 here.
• You can download Hekate/Nyx here.

sources: SciresM, CTCaer