In an interesting turn of events this week, it would seem that the RootHide development team is joining forces with the Procursus team to unify as a single group.
The merger may come as a bit of a surprise to some people, as the two groups were only recently involved in a debacle regarding the RootHide bootstrap app’s logo and the Procursus team’s own logo, both of which resemble a table.
Fortunately, this seems to be water under the bridge as of now…
The Procursus team announced the major change via a post shared to Mastodon on Tuesday, and as it would seem, there are a lot of potentially positive changes coming up that will benefit everyone in the long haul:
As of earlier today, RootHide and its development team are now officially a part of Procursus.
As a result of RootHide now being a part of Procursus, here’s an explanation of what is happening and what this means for both end users and developers.
First of all, RootHide is going to be positioned such that it is an experiment, rather than a primary stable bootstrap for the time being.
Secondly, RootHide is going to become more standardized in the near future. We’ll be sharing more about what this entails soon, as the specifics of this have not been finalized yet.
Lastly, there are two big changes that are happening with regards to the Bootstrap app:
– Bootstrap will soon support traditional rootless bootstrapping (alongside RootHide)
– For developers, everything about the Bootstrap app that is not currently open sourced will be fully open sourced soon.Everything listed here is not going to happen immediately – rather, this will all happen over the next few days, weeks, and potentially months. We apologize for the inconvenience that some of these changes may cause to some people (especially to developers), but these changes are all for the long-term benefit of the entire jailbreaking community.
As the announcement explains, the merging of RootHide and Procursus means that RootHide will be considered an experiment rather than a primary stable bootstrap.
The team will also work to make the RootHide development team’s Bootstrap app support traditional rootless bootstrapping in addition to RootHide, which is expected to be helpful for developers and jailbreakers alike.
And of course, there’s the exciting fact that components of the Bootstrap app that weren’t already open source will soon become open source, allowing people to learn from and contribute to the cause.
If you’re currently a RootHide bootstrap user, this won’t affect you in the near future. The Procursus team says that these changes will take effect slowly and gradually over the next several weeks and possibly months.
As always, the iDB team will be here to report all the latest changes as they happen so that our readers are kept apprised of the latest trends in the jailbreak community.