FPKG on PS5 13.60: Kraken Mount runs packages without installing, but public native support is pending
The public PS5 jailbreak reaches firmware 13.60, but native FPKG packages still have no public support above 11.60. Kraken Mount, released on November 13, offers a userland route, and another project claims to have reached 13.60 with nothing to check it against.
Where things stand
A public jailbreak covers PS5 consoles from 7.00 to 13.60, but a jailbreak does not install fake packages on its own. Public FPKG support, the packages used to run game copies, stops at 11.60: Kstuff Lite 1.11 lists offsets up to 13.60 and its package support goes up to 11.40, with a fix from ArkSama for 11.60. EchoStretch presented Kstuff Next Gen on September 26, a rewrite expected to be the way up, and its first test ELF does not include that support.
Kraken Mount
On November 13 quer3q released beta 0.0.1 of Kraken Mount. It is a payload that registers games from debug .pkg packages and from folders, either plain or packed with zstd or LZ4, and runs them without installing them, with ampr-emu-ng bundled. It scans the internal SSD, USB drives or extended storage, and each game gets an icon on the home screen. The author warns it is experimental, that the FPKG part is the least tested and that only a few games have been tried. If a game runs worse as a .pkg, the advice is to use it as a zstd folder.
According to OneJailbreak's report, ArkSama pointed out that this is not the native route: it works in userland and does not go through the A53 co-processor, so it does not match the performance of the Kraken decompression that real packages use. That native route, the report says, has been working privately up to 13.60 for a while, and its release is expected toward the end of the year, once the HackerOne disclosure process ends.
The project that announces it
On November 14, KernelKatio announced FPKG support for 13.60 on X. Their account later adds that GitHub has suspended the project and that downloads are moving to Telegram, and its own description says it is not plug-and-play and needs Relapse, the hypervisor and kstuff. We could not verify the announcement and we do not link to any download.
14.22 is Sony's latest version and the public jailbreak does not cover it. If you are on 13.60 or lower, do not update. Install only tools from repositories of known authors: this kind of announcement attracts scams.
What to keep in mind
This kind of package is used to run game copies. Use only copies you already own. We do not link to games or dumps.
