Now that the Dopamine v2 jailbreak has been released, many now wonder about the role that the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” currently plays in the modern jailbreak community.
In case you missed it, the Dopamine v2 semi-untethered jailbreak tool for various iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 devices was updated once more over the weekend to version 2.0.5 with another handful of bug fixes and improvements that benefit anyone who began depending on the tool when it launched on Friday.
PureKFD, one of the package manager apps for non-jailbroken devices that allows users to install hacks and add-ons developed for both the MacDirtyCow (MDC) exploit for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-16.1.2 and the Kernel File Descriptor (KFD) exploit for iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.6.1 picked up some important updates in the past couple of weeks that would have been easy to miss if you’ve been focusing attention elsewhere — such as on the development of Dopamine 2 and the likes.
Apple’s brand-new Vision Pro spatial computer, the Cupertino-based company’s take on what’s basically a virtual reality headset (despite Apple’s attempt to not to have it branded as one), has only been available to the public for one day. But that hasn’t stopped talented hackers from working their magic on it.
Lots of prospective iPhone and iPad jailbreakers are undoubtedly excited about the onset of Dopamine 2, the next-generation jailbreak expected to launch in the coming months that will expand jailbreaking to arm64e devices on iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.5.1 for the first time, in addition to other already-jailbreakable versions on more devices.
The RootHide development team on Wednesday announced an updated version of the RootHide Procursus-based bootstrap, this time bringing the project up to version 1.1.1.
If you’re fortunate enough to have a TrollStore-compatible firmware at your disposal, then you’re probably wondering what you can do to prevent iOS or iPadOS from automatically downloading and installing updates. After all, this is an unfortunate circumstance that has affected a lot of people who trusted the native setting in their iPhone or iPad to avoid automatic software updates.
TrollStore, a perma-signing utility for iPhones and iPads that harnesses a CoreTrust exploit in iOS & iPadOS versions 14.0-16.6.1, 16.7 RC, and 17.0 to permanently install any .ipa file that you open with it without the re-signing requirements that come with sideloading, was updated this Friday evening to version 2.0.12.
The Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” system tweak injection method for the RootHide development team’s Procursus-based bootstrap received an important update on Saturday, bringing the project up to version 1.2.0.
If you’ve been searching for the best way to install TrollStore on your iPhone or iPad running iOS or iPadOS 16.0-16.6.1 thus far, then you’ve likely been met by a lot of options. Those include using Misaka, Picasso, and PureKFD, among others.
It was only earlier in the day that we reported on the Misaka v8.2.0 update that added official support for arm64 devices in addition to every unsupported firmware combination for arm64e devices. But it seems that project lead developer @straight_tamago wasn’t finished yet.
Users of the meowbrek2 re-jailbreaking utility for A9-A11 devices running the palera1n checkm8-based jailbreak might be excited to learn that there is now an updated version of it available to the masses.