This was the golden era of running Ubuntu Touch, Firefox OS, or MIUI alongside your daily driver. 2.8.7.0 played beautifully with MultiROM, letting you boot into secondary ROMs with a simple tap.

: Added a GUI option to run resize2fs , which allows you to resize partitions (like userdata or system ) to take up all available physical space. This was particularly useful for devices like the Nexus 6 where factory images sometimes limited partition size.

marked a pivotal moment in the history of Android modding. Developed by the Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP)

Older smartphones and tablets running legacy chipsets (like early Snapdragon, Exynos, or MediaTek processors) often do not have TWRP 3.x builds. Version 2.8.7.0 acts as the final, most stable build for these devices.