BFpilot changelog

v0.4.4 brings the installer, Media tile, archive support and file manager together in one bfpilot.elf.

Changes since v0.4.3

• One all-in-one payload: starts BFpilot on port 5905, installs or refreshes the Media tile, and embeds the private PKG worker.
• Added PS5-native 7F FIH PKG support alongside strict 7F CNT validation, NPXS rejection, correct /data path mapping and the FW 11+ AppInst identity.
• Made tile installation and reinjection idempotent, with bounded AppInst startup and clean worker shutdown.
• Cleaned up the file toolbar. The selection count stays visible and only actions valid for the current selection are shown.
• Added persistent path and sort state, safer Circle/back navigation, parent-folder reveal and better long-path display.
• Added archive cancellation and partial-output cleanup. Automatic RAR/7z extraction uses four threads, with up to eight available manually.
• Hardened transfers, archives, payload launching, diagnostics and worker concurrency.
• Clean Windows builds are now byte-for-byte reproducible.

Testing

Tested on PS5 FW 11.60. The final build passed the 44/44 feature suite and clean reinjection checks. Also tested with a native FIH Internet Browser PKG, ZIP/RAR/7z extraction and cancellation, and sustained 512 MiB transfers.

The controller-friendly layout and PKG installation implementation were inspired by owendswang/ps5-web-file-manager.

• Create and edit text files, plus upload complete folders.
• Safer copy, move, delete, upload and archive jobs.
• Direct target paths or Copy/Move then Paste Here.
• Faster large transfers and search, with clearer diagnostics.
• Cleaner dark layout with New Text File and Delete always visible.

BFpilot v0.4.1

Payloads (separate — stable)

• bfpilot.elf — file manager on :5905 only (no AppInst; loaders reject all-in-one)
• bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf — PS5 home Media tile (BFPL00001, category 65536, deeplink http://127.0.0.1:5905/)

Use: inject bfpilot.elf for the UI; inject the installer once for the Media shelf (or put a copy at /data/BFpilot/bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf so the main ELF auto-starts it).

Also in this release

• Action bar wraps (no horizontal scrollbar)
• Single data dir: /data/BFpilot
• #7 folder click open · #8 case-insensitive paths · #9 extract · #10 chmod · #11 multi-select · #12 version v0.4.1
• Load payload via elfldr :9021

# BFpilot v0.4.0

File manager on http://<PS5_IP>:5905/. Tested on FW 11.60.

Assets

| | |
|--|--|
| bfpilot.elf | File manager + archives. Inject this first. |
| bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf | Optional home menu tile (BFPL00001) |

Install

python3 payload_sender.py <PS5_IP> 9021 bfpilot.elf
python3 payload_sender.py <PS5_IP> 9021 bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf

Or use ps5-payload-manager / Blurfer.

v0.4.0 changes

• HTTP keep-alive (64 req/conn)
• 2 MiB upload / 1 MiB download buffers
• Bigger listen socket buffers
• Index + copy/move stability from 0.3.9

Features

• browse files + Target for copy/move/extract
• Upload files/folder, download, rename, mkdir, delete
• Overwrite/merge/skip conflicts
• Partial Index for search
• ZIP / RAR / 7z extract (integrated)
• Image viewer, text editor (≤5 MB), log viewer
• Exit frees port 5905

BFpilot v0.3.9 Test Build

Test build focused on web upload speed, Index All, and copy/move stability.

Upload (PC → PS5 via web)

• No multi-GB posix_fallocate while the body streams (fixes 1–2 MB/s large-file stall)
• No bulk TCP_NODELAY; listen SO_RCVBUF 4 MiB
• Server JSON: averageMBps, recvMs, writeMs

Index All

• Multi-root crawl + shared visited (st_dev, st_ino) (safe when st_dev == 0)
• Per-root same-device fence (no mount loops)
• Soft-fail roots; logs entry rate / root CSV

Copy / move

• Free-space preflight after size scan
• Overwrite unlink errno fix
• Large sequential buffers

Asset

• bfpilot.elf — inject via elfldr (port 9021), UI on 5905

Release Notes — BFpilot v0.3.8 Test Build Clean

Major UX and feature update. Heavily tested on 11.6. Treat this as the primary development build — all features are active and working.

New Features

• Conflict Overwrite and Merge Prompts: Copy and Move now detect naming conflicts before starting the task. Browser confirm dialog shows Overwrite? for files or Merge? for folders. Skip continues to the next item; Confirm retries with overwrite=1.

• Checkbox Multi-Selection: Every row has an individual checkbox for controller-friendly multi-select (no Ctrl/Shift needed). A Select All master checkbox in the header toggles all items at once.

• Interactive Image Viewer: Built-in viewer for .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .gif, .bmp, .webp, .ico, .svg. Supports grab-and-drag panning, mouse-wheel zooming (0.1x to 10x), 90 degree rotation, and a Reset button. Double-click to open, Escape to close.

• Multi-Log Viewer with PS5 Error History Decoder: The log button now shows a dropdown to select: BFpilot log, Archive log, Search crawler log, Boot log, PS5 VSH log, or PS5 Error History. The Error History option crawls /system_data/priv/error/history/, decodes Sony JSON crash records (error codes, Title IDs, firmware version, ticks) and displays them as a readable trace list. Auto-refreshes every 2 seconds.

Improvements

• Permission Bypass: Global umask(0) at process start plus chmod/fchmod 0777 hooks on all created files, folders, and uploads.
• Split ZIP Support: Full support for official (.z01/.zip) and raw (.zip.001/.zip.002) multi-volume split ZIP archives.
• Extract Dialog Default Target: Extract dialog now pre-fills the destination from the active Target panel path.
• Search Unified to Index All: Removed separate Index System mode; single Index All crawler covers all storage roots.

SHA-256

bfd6232f1c8bb51a04986674286f2df950afdbccfa04c1246310f4bdf646c929 bfpilot.elf
234c4b9c1899894593de9f1a5b031f9d7ae3d069f2641ed045e517eb34e90825 bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf

Asset Sizes

1472024 bfpilot.elf
247080 bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf

Release Notes - BFpilot v0.3.5 Test Build 10 Clean

This release contains structural performance, memory efficiency, and usability optimizations.
heavily tested on 11.6 but didnt have chance to test on other firmwares.
indexing and files search is working mostly but keep in mind a lot of things are encrypted and are not visible so they cant be indexed.
treat this as a stablish release with all features, its fast and its working fine, but i stacked a lot of features now so any feedback would be appreciated, if you want lighter version that only has file manager use 3.0.

Key Features

• Graceful Exit & Re-injection:
• Implemented loopback TCP wakeup to unblock the socket accept() loop instantly during shutdown.
• Added graceful exit flags to terminate background archive daemon and search crawler threads cleanly.
• Web port 5905 and loader port 9021 release instantly on exit, allowing payload re-injection without console reboots.
• Fast Multi-Threaded Search Indexing:
• Added a work-stealing concurrent crawler thread pool for filesystem indexing.
• Search matches are resolved in 0ms with dynamic path/filename highlighting.
• Integrated Archive Extraction:
• Integrated RAR, 7z (including split .7z.001 volumes), and ZIP extraction directly in the main ELF.
• Full support for encrypted/passworded ZIP, RAR, and 7z archives with clean error handling and partial folder cleanups.
• Premium Web UI & Virtual Scrolling:
• Implemented virtual scrolling row recycling to prevent the PS5 Web Browser from running out of memory (OOM) on massive directories (10,000+ files).
• Storage & Network Optimizations:
• Uses FreeBSD sendfile syscall for zero-copy file downloads.
• Boosted socket send/receive buffers to 2MB and enabled TCP_NODELAY to eliminate latency.
• Bypasses heavy lstat calls during crawls to maximize SSD indexing speed.

Release notes for BFpilot v0.3.1 Test Build 9 Exit. Includes loopback TCP wakeup to prevent accept() socket hangs during web server shutdown, clean shutdown flags for background archive daemon thread, and cleanup of multi-threaded search crawlers before exiting.

Release notes for BFpilot v0.3.1 Test Build 8 Search. Includes thread-safe opendir/readdir search crawler, concurrent queue synchronization, double-free allocation fixes, and zero-copy/tail logs improvements.

BFpilot v0.3 is a stable release features compatibility and UI changes. (tested on 11.6 and 12.6)

Highlights:

• Stable file-manager-only bfpilot.elf for broad firmware compatibility.
• Separate bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf for the PS5 home-screen tile.
• Cleaner web UI with Data/Homebrew/Mounts/User/Root places, mounted drives only when present, and a compact storage summary.
• Persistent custom shortcuts with add, remove, and rename controls.
• Transfer diagnostics with timing, throughput, byte counts, device IDs, and last-upload stats.
• Faster PS5-side copy path with a larger transfer buffer.
• Local diagnostics and a safe smoke test for upload, download, copy, move, rename, and cleanup under /data/test.
• Repository cleanup: old debug/full/probe payloads and generated artifacts were removed from the release surface.

SHA256:

• bfpilot.elf: 7aa63351a21bf7a663e95dee78409f9cd06fac29fc329fae902652399a3ffe46
• bfpilot-launcher-installer.elf: 46645d64c4e0f087ceb3339d4a70b359c03f5360f565a22109c292cf0a27a8d9

BFpilot v0.2.0 is the renamed file-manager-focused build.

This is only confirmed to work on 11.60 firmware, any one with later firmwares or older ones i suggest checking out the latest prerelease

Added and fixed in this build:

• Renamed the project, web UI, PS5 launcher tile, notifications, and release binary from BS5FileManager to BFpilot.
• Removes older BSFM00001 / BS5F00001 launcher tiles during refresh.
• Keeps reinjection handoff compatible with older BS5FileManager listeners on port 5905.
• Upload progress from the web UI shows sent size, speed, ETA, file count, and current filename.
• missing target folders are created automatically.
• Injecting the payload refreshes/installs the PS5 launcher tile without auto-opening the browser.
• Cancel handling is safer during scan, copy, move cleanup, and delete operations.
• dark themed now

Inject/deploy port: 9021
Web UI port: 5905
Launcher title ID: BFPL00001

Early BS5FileManager build, focused on a small stable PS5 browser file manager.

Changes in this corrected 0.1.1 build:

• Refreshes and re-registers the PS5 home-screen launcher tile on every injection.
• Stores launcher state under /data/BS5fm.
• Adds safe reinjection handoff: idle old instances are stopped, active file jobs are left alone.
• Keeps the web UI on port 5905 and inject/deploy port 9021.
• Shows copy/move/delete speed in MB/s and ETA from server-side job counters.

Early but stable BS5FileManager build.

This is the first public release of the lightweight PS5 browser file-manager payload.

Highlights:

• Web file manager on port 5905
• PS5 home-screen launcher tile
• Copy, move, delete, rename, mkdir, upload, and download
• Click-to-calculate folder sizes

Inject bs5filemanager.elf on port 9021, then open http://<PS5_IP>:5905/.

SHA256 (s5filemanager.elf): 33761f07b975f2664d0609899f208dd91a5ce8f0ffd2408d60bddfe979b8170e