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-rw-r--r--docs/Changelog.md2
-rw-r--r--docs/features.md29
-rw-r--r--docs/fuzzing_binary-only_targets.md10
-rw-r--r--docs/important_changes.md4
4 files changed, 27 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Changelog.md b/docs/Changelog.md
index 58eef2ee..c4786bf3 100644
--- a/docs/Changelog.md
+++ b/docs/Changelog.md
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ sending a mail to <afl-users+subscribe@googlegroups.com>.
     e.g. "unique crashes" -> "saved crashes", "total paths" ->
     "corpus count", "current path" -> "current item".
     This might need changing custom scripting!
+  - Nyx mode (full system emulation with snapshot capability) has been
+    added - thanks to @schumilo and @eqv!
   - new binary-only fuzzing mode: coresight_mode for aarch64 CPUs :)
     thanks to RICSecLab submitting!
   - if instrumented libaries are dlopen()'ed after the forkserver you
diff --git a/docs/features.md b/docs/features.md
index 431d9eb1..6104ca63 100644
--- a/docs/features.md
+++ b/docs/features.md
@@ -4,20 +4,20 @@ AFL++ supports llvm from 3.8 up to version 12, very fast binary fuzzing with
 QEMU 5.1 with laf-intel and redqueen, FRIDA mode, unicorn mode, gcc plugin, full
 *BSD, Mac OS, Solaris and Android support and much, much, much more.
 
-| Feature/Instrumentation  | afl-gcc | llvm      | gcc_plugin | FRIDA mode(9)    | QEMU mode(10)    |unicorn_mode(10)  |coresight_mode(11)|
-| -------------------------|:-------:|:---------:|:----------:|:----------------:|:----------------:|:----------------:|:----------------:|
-| Threadsafe counters      |         |     x(3)  |            |                  |                  |                  |                  |
-| NeverZero                | x86[_64]|     x(1)  |     x      |         x        |         x        |         x        |                  |
-| Persistent Mode          |         |     x     |     x      | x86[_64]/arm64   | x86[_64]/arm[64] |         x        |                  |
-| LAF-Intel / CompCov      |         |     x     |            |                  | x86[_64]/arm[64] | x86[_64]/arm[64] |                  |
-| CmpLog                   |         |     x     |            | x86[_64]/arm64   | x86[_64]/arm[64] |                  |                  |
-| Selective Instrumentation|         |     x     |     x      |         x        |         x        |                  |                  |
-| Non-Colliding Coverage   |         |     x(4)  |            |                  |        (x)(5)    |                  |                  |
-| Ngram prev_loc Coverage  |         |     x(6)  |            |                  |                  |                  |                  |
-| Context Coverage         |         |     x(6)  |            |                  |                  |                  |                  |
-| Auto Dictionary          |         |     x(7)  |            |                  |                  |                  |                  |
-| Snapshot LKM Support     |         |    (x)(8) |    (x)(8)  |                  |        (x)(5)    |                  |                  |
-| Shared Memory Test cases |         |     x     |     x      | x86[_64]/arm64   |         x        |         x        |                  |
+| Feature/Instrumentation  | afl-gcc | llvm      | gcc_plugin | FRIDA mode(9)    | QEMU mode(10)    |unicorn_mode(10)  |nyx_mode(12)|coresight_mode(11)|
+| -------------------------|:-------:|:---------:|:----------:|:----------------:|:----------------:|:----------------:|:----------:|:----------------:|
+| Threadsafe counters      |         |     x(3)  |            |                  |                  |                  |     x      |                  |
+| NeverZero                | x86[_64]|     x(1)  |     x      |         x        |         x        |         x        |            |                  |
+| Persistent Mode          |         |     x     |     x      | x86[_64]/arm64   | x86[_64]/arm[64] |         x        |            |                  |
+| LAF-Intel / CompCov      |         |     x     |            |                  | x86[_64]/arm[64] | x86[_64]/arm[64] | x86[_64]   |                  |
+| CmpLog                   |         |     x     |            | x86[_64]/arm64   | x86[_64]/arm[64] |                  |            |                  |
+| Selective Instrumentation|         |     x     |     x      |         x        |         x        |                  |            |                  |
+| Non-Colliding Coverage   |         |     x(4)  |            |                  |        (x)(5)    |                  |            |                  |
+| Ngram prev_loc Coverage  |         |     x(6)  |            |                  |                  |                  |            |                  |
+| Context Coverage         |         |     x(6)  |            |                  |                  |                  |            |                  |
+| Auto Dictionary          |         |     x(7)  |            |                  |                  |                  |            |                  |
+| Snapshot Support         |         |    (x)(8) |    (x)(8)  |                  |        (x)(5)    |                  |     x      |                  |
+| Shared Memory Test cases |         |     x     |     x      | x86[_64]/arm64   |         x        |         x        |     x      |                  |
 
 1. default for LLVM >= 9.0, environment variable for older version due an
    efficiency bug in previous llvm versions
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ QEMU 5.1 with laf-intel and redqueen, FRIDA mode, unicorn mode, gcc plugin, full
 10. QEMU/Unicorn is only supported on Linux
 11. Coresight mode is only available on AARCH64 Linux with a CPU with Coresight
     extension
+12. Nyx mode is only supported on Linux and currently restricted to x86_x64
 
 Among others, the following features and patches have been integrated:
 
diff --git a/docs/fuzzing_binary-only_targets.md b/docs/fuzzing_binary-only_targets.md
index 0f2f84f6..855d7756 100644
--- a/docs/fuzzing_binary-only_targets.md
+++ b/docs/fuzzing_binary-only_targets.md
@@ -125,6 +125,16 @@ to check out our sister project libafl which supports Frida, too:
 [https://github.com/AFLplusplus/LibAFL](https://github.com/AFLplusplus/LibAFL).
 Working examples already exist :-)
 
+### Nyx mode
+
+Nyx is a full system emulation fuzzing environment with snapshot support that
+is built upon KVM and QEMU.
+It is only available on Linux and currently restricted to x86_x64.
+
+For binary-only fuzzing a special 5.10 kernel is required.
+
+See [nyx_mode/README.md](../nyx_mode/README.md)
+
 ### Unicorn
 
 Unicorn is a fork of QEMU. The instrumentation is, therefore, very similar. In
diff --git a/docs/important_changes.md b/docs/important_changes.md
index facaf3c1..0c1c34ef 100644
--- a/docs/important_changes.md
+++ b/docs/important_changes.md
@@ -5,10 +5,6 @@ changes.
 
 ## From version 3.00 onwards
 
-With AFL++ 3.13-3.20, we introduce FRIDA mode (`-O`) to have an alternative for
-binary-only fuzzing. It is a bit faster than QEMU mode and works on MacOS,
-Android, iOS etc.
-
 With AFL++ 4.00, we introduced the following changes from previous behaviors:
   * the complete documenation was overhauled and restructured thanks to @llzmb!
   * a new CMPLOG target format requires recompiling CMPLOG targets for use