Before Magic Lantern[]
- 10 Dec 2003 : 300D decryption (Alex Bernstein)
- April 2004 : 300D hack
- May 2007 : how to port CHDK on a new VxWorks camera (VitalyB, CHDK founder)
- 20 Dec 2007 : 40D updater decryption
- 27 Dev 2007 : first hack on DryOS (jeff666)
- 9 Jan 2009 : AES tables found in 50D updater
- 14 March 2009 : 400plus hack
A timeline of Magic Lantern development[]
- 24 April 2009 : 5D Mark II dumper = "It works! My code runs!" said Trammel. changeset/e9601af73078
- 22 June 2009 : first public release. tag "release-0.1.3". changeset/3a9ca37891f2
- 11 Aug 2009 : ML 1.0.6 for 5D Mark II 1.1.0
- 12 Dec 2009 : signature algorithm understood (on 7D and others)
- 4 Jan 2010 : encryption algorithm found
- 27 Feb 2010 : 550D/T2i 1.0.6 leaked on Cinema5D. Updater encrypted with new AES key, we are done!
- 1 March 2010 : 7D 1.1.0 dumper. See 7D_support
- 8 March 2010 : AJ started studying and documenting the 5D Mark II 2.0.4 firmware
- 21 March 2010 : ML for 5D Mark II 2.0.4. changeset/d017afc5b7e0
- 23 June 2010 : State of the Lantern: 1 year anniversary
- 12 July 2010 : Someone dumped 550D memory
- 26 July 2010 : New keys found. Encryption and signing worked first time ;-)
- 1 August 2010 : 550D/T2i port of Magic Lantern
- 3 Sept 2010 : Alex compiles 550D 1.0.8 source tree for first time
- 28 Nov 2010 : Magic Lantern for 5D Mark II 2.0.8
- 12 Dec 2010 : Alex is starting to port 5D Mark II features to 550D 1.0.9
- 13 Dec 2010 : AJ first "Overlay and Focus" experimentation
- 19 Dec 2010 : ML booted on 60D
- 17 March 2011 : AJ 5.0 update for 5D Mark II
- 2 May 2011 : ML on 500D/T1i
- 1 July 2011 : ML on 600D/T3i
- 8 July 2011 : Unified source tree for 550D, 60D and 600D
- 14 Aug 2011 : AJ 5.9
- August 2011 : ML on 1100D/T3 and 50D
- 7 Nov 2011 : Nikon firmware "encryption" found
- 8 Dec 2011 : G3gg0 started to study Digic registers and wrote FPS override code
- 12 Dec 2011 : Magic Lantern Unified - anniversary update
- (2012 04 27) Magic Lantern will work on 5D Mark III!
- (2012 09 12) G3gg0 solves the 7D puzzle, Magic Lantern will work!
- (2012 09 12) Magic Lantern working on 5D Mark III, alpha 1 available
- (2012 10 12) Magic Lantern working on 7D - alpha 1 is out!
- .... just follow major announces on the main Wiki page and Official Magic Lantern web site
Credits[]
See CREDITS.txt