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Unc0ver v5.2.0 adds support for iOS 13.5.5 beta 1, incorporates bug fixes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated June 10, 2020

When Pwn20wnd released unc0ver v5.0.0 on Memorial Day weekend with support for iOS and iPadOS 13.5, it took the jailbreak community by storm. Not only was the firmware still signed at the time of release, but the exploit went unfixed for quite a long while after before Apple finally patched it in iOS and iPadOS 13.5.1. Just yesterday evening, Apple officially stopped signing iOS and iPadOS 13.5, a move intended to prevent jailbreak hopefuls from downgrading to a pwnable firmware.

But for those who accidentally (or intentionally) updated and now regret it, there's still hope, as unc0ver project lead developer Pwn20wnd updated the jailbreak tool to version 5.2.0 on Tuesday with novel support for iOS 13.5.5 beta 1, along with some other important improvements:

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Sileo v1.7.5 beta 1 adds repo exporting, tweak editorials, & bug fixes

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 21, 2020

Just last night, the Sileo Team had announced that the Sileo package manager would turn a new leaf by becoming an open-source project for the very first time, ensuring a more transparent future going forward.

Several hours later, Sileo Team lead developer CoolStar seeded an updated beta release of Sileo dubbed version 1.7.5 beta 1 via the official Discord channel so that beta testers could go hands-on with it and try it out:

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Ryan Petrich launches new Activator beta with preliminary iOS 13 support

Anthony Bouchard ∙ April 12, 2020

Activator, perhaps one of the most-used extensions ever created for the jailbreak community, received a beta update this weekend to add the first official support for iOS/iPadOS 13 since the checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreak tools made pwning these versions possible. At the time of this writing,  the latest Activator beta is now version 1.9.13~beta6.

Project lead developer Ryan Petrich announced the new beta version with preliminary iOS 13 support via Twitter late last night, along with Activator’s sister extension, Flipswitch:

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Checkra1n experimental pre-release adds preliminary support for iOS 13.4, Mac T2 chip

Anthony Bouchard ∙ March 18, 2020

The checkra1n team launched an experimental pre-release build of the checkra1n jailbreak tool Wednesday afternoon with preliminary support for Apple’s upcoming iOS and iPadOS 13.4 release, which Apple intends to release to the public next week. Developers got their hands on the iOS and iPadOS 13.4 Golden Master earlier this afternoon just after Apple finished announcing its 2020 iPad Pro and brand-new Magic Keyboard.

The experimental checkra1n build, dubbed v0.9.9 experimental isn’t available from the official checkra1n website, but rather from a link that was included in one of checkra1n team member Luca Todesco’s Tweets.

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Checkra1n v0.9.8.1 introduces Project Sandcastle, enabling Android to run on iPhones

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated May 27, 2020

We’ve witnessed a plethora of teasers from Pwn20wnd and the rest of team unc0ver throughout the past week. That said, it might come off as somewhat of a surprise that the checkra1n team launched an updated public beta version of the checkra1n jailbreak Wednesday afternoon, seemingly out of the blue.

The announcement, shared first by checkra1n team member Luca Todesco, denoted that the latest version of the checkra1n jailbreak tool would be v0.9.8.1 and that it would incorporate substantial changes:

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