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.
Serotonin lead developer @htrowii announced the latest update in a post shared to X (formerly Twitter) late Saturday afternoon, and from what we can gather, version 1.2.0 brings with it the following changes:
User Interface / Quality of Life
– Fixed toggles for reinstalling and uninstalling Serotonin jailbreak
– Fixed toggle for enabling verbose boot
– Added toggle for hiding the confidential text (big thanks given to Fiore / Sugiuta)Version support
– Added kfund kpf, replacing tihmstar’s kpf (big thanks given to Sora / @jonahnm)
– This effectively adds support for arm64 devices & fixes iPad support
– Fixed switchsysbin to run on 16.3.1 and below. If you are on 16.6b1, enable the beta toggle
– Fixed M1/M2 regression from previous kpf. Now the kbase on these devices should be fixed
– Added exploit picker (in simple / old UI)
As you can see, this is a pretty important update. Serotonin’s new kernel patch finder now adds support for older arm64 devices (like the iPhone X and older). It also fixes problems with M1 and M2 chip-equipped iPad Pros and implements various bug fixes that improve the user experience of the product.
In a future update, the developer plans to add iOS & iPadOS 15 support to Serotonin, add support for rootless, and incorporate support for system-wide tweak injection into daemons.
If you’re already a Serotonin user, then you can head over to the GitHub page to acquire the latest .tipa file and you can use TrollStore to perma-sign the latest version over your existing installation. You may then want to reboot and re-jailbreak to apply the changes.
New or prospective users can simply visit the GitHub page after installing the RootHide bootstrap and download the .tipa file and install and run it. You should also be aware that you run the risk of boot-looping your device if you install a hack or add-on that doesn’t play nicely with Serotonin. That said, you should proceed with extreme caution and only install known working tweaks.
Please note, however, that a full-fledged rootless jailbreak for arm64e devices running iOS & iPadOS 16.0-16.5.1 will be coming soon by way of Dopamine v2, and that palera1n already exists for arm64 devices. Making use a full-fledged jailbreak such as one of these is the recommended path to take.
Are you running the latest version of the Serotonin “semi-jailbreak” yet? Let us know in the comments section down below.