We’re only a week away until the month of December ends, but Samsung hasn’t yet begun rollout for the freshest release of Android to its recently launched flagship devices of 2015.

Earlier last month, the Korean manufacturer released an official statement saying the Marshmallow update would be coming to the Note 5, S6, S6 Edge and S6 Edge Plus by the end of December. Unfortunately though, we don’t see that happening.

Anyway, the matter of having root access on Samsung’s Marshmallow running devices is still undiscussed. Like every major Android release, Google has further improved the security on Android 6.0 Marshmallow release. And that combined with Samsung’s Knox security, getting root access might get even more tougher on the bootloader locked variants from AT&T, Verizon and other carriers.

The Galaxy Note 5 and S6 family of devices with unlocked bootloader should be able to get root on the Marshmallow update with Chainfire’s latest SuperSU beta release with auto boot patcher for systemless root.

The auto boot patcher method doesn’t require you to flash a modified boot/kernel separately via Odin. A simply SuperSU zip flash from the TWRP recovery does the job.

Systemless root has been tested positively on Samsung’s 5.1.1 firmware builds and Marshmallow builds from other manufacturers, so we’re hoping it to work good with Samsung’s Marshmallow 6.0/6.0.1 firmwares as well.

We’ll test root and update this post once Marshmallow is released for the Note 5 or any other Samsung device. Stay tuned..