Jailbreak news of the week: TrollStore 2 released, Limefix Blackbird SEP Utility, various updates, & more…

It’s been a busy time of the year for just about everyone, which makes it that much easier for people to miss important news in the iPhone jailbreaking and hacking communities.

Fortunately, your friends at iDB dedicate all their time to finding the latest news and information that may pertain to users of these interest groups. And for when you’re too busy to follow along, we make roundups like this one to help you digest everything over your weekend morning coffee.

In today’s roundup, we’ll discuss everything new spanning the week of Monday, November 27^th to Sunday, December 3^rd. So without further ado, let’s get started.

Important stuff from this week

TrollStore v2 for iOS 15.5-17.0 launches

The popular TrollStore perma-signing utility picked up support for iOS & iPadOS 15.5-16.6.1 & 17.0 on Monday, officially expanding support with a new CoreTrust bug that was reported earlier in the year.

Install methods don’t exist for all device and firmware combos just yet, but based on virtualization testing, we know it works. It should only be a matter of time before installation methods for remaining devices becomes available.

You can learn more about TrollStore v2 in our full news post.

XinaA15 jailbreak makes a comeback

No one ever thought it would happen since the Dopamine jailbreak pretty much took over the iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 space, but v2 of the XinaA15 jailbreak launched last Sunday morning with iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.4.1 support in addition to rootless jailbreak tweak support that changes the status quo of the community.

The new XinaA15 v2 jailbreak utilizes Sileo and libhooker and makes use of the Fugu15 Rootful jailbreak with some kfd exploit-based exploitation to work. Even Dopamine jailbreak developer Lars Fröder appears to agree that this implementation is much better than the original.

You can learn more about this new XinaA15 v2 jailbreak release in our full news post.

Misaka updates

Misaka received a bevy of updates this week, including one that incorporates an integrated installer for TrollStore 2.

You can learn about the latest Misaka updates in our news stories below:

Picasso adds TrollStore 2 installation method

Picasso, a jailed toolbox for kfd exploit-vulnerable arm64e devices, added an installation method for the TrollStore perma-signing app and granted free access for the first two days after TrollStore 2 launched.

You can learn more about this in our full news post.

Limefix Blackbird SEP Utility

The much anticipated Limefix Blackbird SEP Utility officially launched this past week amid everything going on with everything else already.

With Limefix, you can take advantage of the Blackbird SEPROM hardware exploit to initialize both tethered and untethered firmware downgrades on A9 devices.

You can learn more about it in our full review post.

TrollStore 2 updates

Much like any other piece of software, TrollStore 2 received a bevy of new updates shortly after launching on Monday.

We’ve written about most of those updates, and linked those posts for you below so that you can learn more about what’s new in each release:

XinaA15 v2 updates

The XinaA15 v2 jailbreak received updates this week to fix bugs after the initial release.

We outline some of the major updates in separate posts shared throughout the week below.

Picasso updates

Picasso, the kfd exploit-based iPhone & iPad customization toolbox also received a bevy of updates this past week.

You can learn more about what’s new in those updates below:

PureKFD gets TrollStore 2 installer

The PureKFD package manager app for kfd exploit-vulnerable devices also picked up support for installing TrollStore 2 via the kfd exploit.

You can learn more about this early, and somewhat buggy, initial implementation in our full news post.

AltServer v1.7.1 released for macOS

AltServer, the computer-side support software that works hand-in-hand with AltStore on your iPhone or iPad to help you sideload apps outside of the App Store, was updated to version 1.7.1 this past week.

According to the developers, the latest update was intended to resolve an issue that could cause timeouts when using JIT (Just-in-time) on macOS.

You can learn more about the latest update in our full news post.

TrollDecrypt app

You can use the new TrollDecrypt app with TrollStore 2 to decrypt any app on your iPhone or iPad such that you can inject modifications into the app before installing it.

You can learn more about TrollDecrypt in our full review post.

Everything else from this week

clubhousenoupdate: Bypass the ClubHouse update banner (free via YouRepo repository)

Dentac: Enables a mappable Calculator shortcut in iPadOS’ Control Center interface (free via Misaka — review post)

Exiwall v2.1.1 released: Handles more cases for alternative animations (review post)

NetFence v1.5.3 released: Updates the IP address database (review post)

Picarize v1.0.5 released: Adds a new respring option (review post)

You’ve found the end of today’s roundup, but we promise to keep you apprised of new information as it breaks throughout the coming work week, and to return next Sunday with a roundup just like this one to help you keep yourself updated.

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