General IDA Pro 9.5 Released – Big Update with New Decompilers, Better Apple Support & AI Features

[Taylor Meyer 311]

Hi everyone,

Hex-Rays dropped **IDA Pro 9.5** (build 9.5.261026) yesterday. It’s one of their bigger releases in a while, so I figured it was worth a quick overview here.

### Major highlights

- **Three new decompilers**:

  - **Dalvik** – Android DEX bytecode decompiled to more readable Java-style pseudocode (with class view, multidex support, better Kotlin/debug info name recovery, try/catch/finally reconstruction, etc.). 
☝️this is a big one for Android cheaters maybe (no expert on android)

  - **TriCore** – Infineon TriCore (automotive/industrial firmware).
  - **Hexagon** – Qualcomm Hexagon DSP (packet semantics, hardware loops, HVX, etc., with Clang-style intrinsics).

- **Big Apple platform improvements** (relevant for a lot of us):
  - New kernelcache loader that treats kernelcaches as collections of KEXTs instead of one giant Mach-O. KC Index, better IOKit class hierarchy reconstruction, kalloc_type typed allocations (iOS 16+/macOS 13+), cross-KEXT searching, and improved arm64e authenticated virtual call resolution (they claim ~92% resolved with proper xrefs on a fully mapped cache).
  - DriverKit support – recovers classes, vtables, and IORPC messages in .dext files, with better type libraries.
  - Improved Swift recovery (including on stripped binaries), better arm64e handling, and more.

- **Decompiler quality upgrades**:
  - Proper bitfield support (no more shift/mask spam).
  - Much stronger AVX/SSE/AVX2/AVX-512 lifting into C and `_mm*` intrinsics instead of `__asm` blocks.
  - Smarter switch-case recovery.
  - Recursive “Create C file” (export a function + its callees).
  - Better verbatim name preservation for Rust, Go, Swift, and modern C++.
  - Other improvements for scattered register pairs, function pointer targets, etc.

- **AI / agentic features** (the “agentic era” stuff they’re pushing):
  - Official **IDA MCP** (open-source, claims ~20% lower token usage vs typical function-calling MCPs).
  - **Assist** – AI harness built for reverse engineering that stays inside IDA and can work with local or cloud models.
  - **IDA Pro Headless** for running fleets of agents with proper licensing.

- Other notable stuff: FLIRT 2.0 signatures (names a lot more library/startup code), Pathfinder widget, UEFI loader + plugin, better WebAssembly 3.0 support, performance improvements, Qt 6.12 UI updates, HTML export, and a bunch of bug fixes.

Official announcement:  
https://hex-rays.com/blog/ida-9.5-release

Full release notes:  
https://docs.hex-rays.com/release-notes/9_5

**Important note:**  
No download links of any kind will be provided in this thread (or by me).

Hidden Easter egg in here 😉

If you want the download for IDA Pro PM me its for all platforms (yes it is safe)

[Taylor Meyer 311]

@Rook Hi hope you are doing well, I provided no Download links at all 😃

Hopefully this post is ok if not feel free to delete it 👍

Thanks!!

[0xNoctis 9.9k Donor]

Some pretty solid features in this update, especially the improved ARM64e handling, Swift recovery and AI integration. Definitely some useful stuff for reverse engineering.

[Rook 571.9k Donor]

@Taylor Meyer Where's the 🥚?

[Taylor Meyer 311]

3 hours ago, Rook said:

@Taylor Meyer Where's the 🥚?

Highlight the bottom text 😁🤣

[Taylor Meyer 311]

ok so another thing is what I am going to do is another easter egg because I can not directly upload to a DDL website because my internet upload speed sucks so 😉



 

Spoiler

😉 use a torrenting software like Qbittorrent or transmission

Spoiler

http://magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ed810311f1af78b9f9872da12076d2a413bd9ae5&dn=ida95&xl=5820581379&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.corpscorp.online%3A80%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3A451%2Fannounce&tr=https%3A%2F%2Ftracker.7471.top%3A443%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.mywaifu.best%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.nyaa.vc%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.waaa.moe%3A6969%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Ftracker.opentrackr.org%3A1337%2Fannounce&tr=udp%3A%2F%2Fopen.stealth.si%3A80%2Fannounce

 

 

[Taylor Meyer 311]

3 hours ago, Rook said:

@Taylor Meyer Where's the 🥚?

ok so update

my internet upload speed sucks so it is not letting me upload it to a DDL website So I had to link the magnet link for torrenting instead

[Rook 571.9k Donor]

38 minutes ago, Taylor Meyer said:

Highlight the bottom text 😁🤣

You bad boy! We can't accept this!

[Saitama 33.4k]

12 hours ago, Taylor Meyer said:

Hidden Easter egg in here 😉

on Dark Mode there is no hidden