Check out the latest news and tutorials about Sileo, a refined package manager app that can be installed on jailbroken iPhones and iPads to browse repositories and find jailbreak tweaks and themes.
Sileo was made to replace Cydia on modern iterations of iOS and iPadOS, and feels faster and smoother thanks to its native and intuitive design.
Sileo, which is now effectively the dominant package manager app used by the masses for installing and managing tweaks and add-ons on jailbroken devices, received a minor update this week that brought the app up to version 2.5.1.
While perusing the /r/jailbreak boards this weekend, I was reminded about a website that once existed for the specific purpose of passing APT repositories through a URL using the ‘?source=’ parameter, which would then present the end user with buttons to add that particular repository to all available package manager apps that the user might have installed on their jailbroken device.
Gone are the days in which most jailbreak tweaks are hosted on one or two large and centralized repositories. Instead, jailbreakers are likely to need to add several third-party repositories to their package manager app to find jailbreak tweaks, many of which are hosted by the tweak developers themselves.
Back in January, we shared the news about PureKFD developer lrdsn0w apparently deciding to make a new package manager app as a Sileo and Zebra alternative for jailbroken devices, and it would be called PurePKG.
If you’re without a jailbreak and your firmware is too new for any of the recent developments in the jailbreak community recently (I’m looking at all of you who are on iOS or iPadOS 16.6-17.0 and using TrollStore 2), then you might want to pay attention to this.
If you’re taking advantage of the RootHide jailbreak detection bypass for the Dopamine jailbreak on an A12-A15 device running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 and you also depend on Sileo as your package manager app, then we would strongly recommend opening Sileo and refreshing your sources this morning.
The Sileo Team is out with a new update for the Sileo package manager on Thursday, this time bringing the public release up to version 2.5.
The Sileo Team pushed an update for the Sileo package manager on Monday, officially bringing it up to version 2.4.2.
Saturday evening, Sileo Team lead developer Amy While (@elihwyma) officially ended the Sileo package manager app’s support for the XinaA15 jailbreak tool for arm64e devices running iOS or iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1.
The jailbreak community received a bit of closure late Monday night after former Odyssey Team member and lead developer CoolStar formally announced that the Cheyote jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 had been cancelled and that CoolStar was leaving the community for good.
Sileo is perhaps one of the most prominent package manager apps for jailbroken iPhones and iPads right behind Cydia, but starting with iOS & iPadOS 15, Sileo has become the default for most jailbreaks.
In an interesting turn of events Thursday afternoon, it appears that Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar appears to have officially handed the keys of the Sileo package manager to longtime Sileo Team member Amy While (@elihwyma).