Good news for folks who stuck around on iOS 6.1.3/4 in hopes of scoring an early jailbreak, developer winocm has confirmed that a public release for his late-version iOS 6 hack will be available in the next few months.
Winocm has been working on an iOS 6.1.3/4 jailbreak for a few months now. He’s shown it off on video, and even let our very own Jeff take it for a spin. And today he answered the oft-asked ETA question: ‘before 2014.’
Here’s the series of tweets we’re referring to:
Thanks to everyone who are dumping iPad kernels. It helps a lot.
— winocm (@winocm) October 7, 2013
It speeds things up with the 6.1.3/.4 jailbreak. (A lot).
— winocm (@winocm) October 7, 2013
A definite ETA is before 2014.
— winocm (@winocm) October 7, 2013
The developer completes the announcement by asking folks to “Please be patient,” saying “we are all trying to get things done as soon as possible.” And he has since retweeted a couple of users telling him to take his time.
And it’s a good thing winocm is making sure they get things right. Any Restore-inducing flaw in his hack would essentially be jailbreak-fatal, as users would be forced to update to iOS 7 and there’s no way to downgrade.
On that note, the evad3rs have said that they are making progress on the iOS 7 jailbreak, but no ETA (or estimated time of arrival) has been given on that front. Stay tuned.