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Version 12 of Magisk just released, legacy modules are hidden, fixes Samsung bugs and more

The developer behind Magisk just pushed out a new update that brings it up to version 12 and comes with the following changes. . .

- [General] Move most binaries into magisk.img (Samsung cannot run su daemon in /data).
- [General] Move sepolicy live patch to late_start service This shall fix the long boot times, especially on Samsung devices
- [General] Add Samsung RKP hexpatch back, should now work on Samsung stock kernels.
- [General] Fix installation with SuperSU.
- [MagiskHide] Support other logcat am_proc_start patterns.
- [MagiskHide] Change /sys/fs/selinux/enforce(policy) permissions if required Samsung devices cannot switch selinux states, if running on permissive custom kernel, the users will stuck at permissive If this scenario is detected, change permissions to hide the permissive state, leads to SafetyNet passes.
- [MagiskHide] Add built in prop rules to fake KNOX status Samsung apps requiring KNOX status to be 0x0 should now work (Samsung Pay not tested).
- [MagiskHide] Remove all ro.build props, since they cause more issues than they benefit...
- [MagiskBoot] Add lz4 legacy format support (most linux kernel using lz4 for compression is using this).
- [MagiskBoot] Fix MTK kernels with MTK headers.
 

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