It’s always rough when we’re stuck saying our goodbyes to talent in the jailbreak tweak development community, but unfortunately that’s the news we have for you today.
The palera1n jailbreak team released an updated version of the palera1n semi-tethered jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0 and later early Saturday morning, officially bringing the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based tool up to version 2.0.1.
Lars Fröder (@opa443dev), the talented developer behind the Dopamine rootless jailbreak tool for iOS & iPadOS 15 and 16 devices, on Tuesday released a minor update for the tool dubbed version 2.2.1 as a follow-up to the version 2.2 update that dropped on Sunday.
Anyone who uses the Dopamine jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS versions 15 or 16 may be interested in knowing that there’s a new update to the jailbreak as of early Sunday morning.
While Sileo remains the most popular package manger app for modern jailbroken devices by far, alternative package managers do exist that give jailbreakers more options for managing their jailbreak tweaks and other packages.
The palera1n team officially announced in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) on Monday that the checkm8 bootrom exploit-based jailbreak tool had been updated to version 2.0.
While AltStore works great for sideloading apps onto iPhones and iPads from Mac and Windows PCs with AltServer installed on them, Linux users find themselves with no official support, and many third-party forks exhibit Wi-Fi reliability issues. This is a major problem considering AltServer’s dependence on Wi-Fi.
AltStore is a well-known piece of software that allows iPhone and iPad users to sideload apps on their device, effectively sidestepping the App Store. The main benefit there is that users can install apps that Apple would never permit on the App Store.
Cowabunga Lite, a popular system customization utility that exploits Apple’s backup and restore feature to apply changes to the user experience over wire, received updates to both its macOS and Windows-based applications Wednesday afternoon.
As we first showed you back in 2022, iOS developer PoomSmart has long dabbled with the rear-facing flash on iPhones to see what could be possible by way of jailbreaking. But in more recent times, TrollStore-based add-ons have increased in popularity, especially when many people had access to TrollStore, but were waiting for a jailbreak to launch before Dopamine v2 hit the shelves.
PurePKG, the newest package manager app to be released for jailbroken devices, has received another update on Saturday, this time bringing the project up to version 1.7.
It’s been a ridiculous week following WWDC 2024, chock-full of announcements about iOS & iPadOS 18. Even the jailbreak community has suddenly come alive, pushing updates to jailbreak tools and attempting to see whether palera1n can be used to jailbreak certain checkm8-vulnerable devices post-update to iPadOS 18 and tvOS 18.