Even since the first jailbreak for the iPhone launched back in 2007, tools have historically been free for end users to download or use. Despite being free, jailbreak users could generally donate to jailbreak developers if they wanted to provide gratitude for the tireless work that went into making it.
Quite a few heads began spinning on Thursday after Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar made a comment in the team’s Discord channel that mentioned how the upcoming Cheyote jailbreak for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1 would “probably” be a free release, followed by an explanation of how CoolStar has been spending most of her time lately.
After releasing iOS & iPadOS 15.6.1 last week with bug fixes and security improvements for the iPhone and iPad, Apple is at it again this week with the company’s standard process of unsigning older firmware after pulling the plug on the previous iOS & iPadOS 15.6 release.
Substitute, the primary tweak injection method tapped by users of the checkra1n and unc0ver jailbreaks received an unexpected update on Tuesday to version 2.3.0.
Over the course of this past weekend weekend, we witnessed the release of another iOS 9 jailbreak called Blizzard, which supports legacy 32-bit devices running iOS 9.0-9.3.6.
Just this week, Hyperixa released a neat little app called IPSW, which could be used to see if a particular iPhone or iPad firmware version was being signed by Apple at the time of checking. The IPSW app was first made available for jailbroken iPhones and iPads via package managers such as Cydia, Sileo, and Zebra.
Apple just last week released iOS & iPadOS 15.6 to the masses following an extensive beta testing period involving both developers and public beta participants. Fast-forward to today, and Apple doesn’t want anyone turning back.
Sideloady, a popular alternative to AltStore for sideloading .ipa files onto iPhones and iPads as a means of bypassing the App Store to install apps, received a fresh update on Tuesday in the form of version 0.26.5.
Odyssey Team lead developer CoolStar just last week shared a comprehensive rundown of the status of the upcoming iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1-based Cheyote jailbreak to the Sileo / Taurine / Odyssey Discord channel. In doing so, the community received valuable insight into the team’s progress.
Hot off the heels of the Odyssey Team’s teaser announcement showcasing the upcoming Cheyote jailbreak tool user interface for iOS & iPadOS 15.0-15.1.1, another important announcement comes by way of the Zebra Team, who will be pushing a major overhaul of the popular alternative package manager app Zebra in the near future.
The Odyssey Team has pushed another fresh update for its iOS & iPadOS 14.0-14.3-based Taurine jailbreak tool, officially bringing the version number up to 1.1.6.
Jailbreakers who use any of the Odyssey Team’s tools should be familiar with libhooker, as it’s the primary tweak injection method used by those jailbreaks so that tweaks can hook into system processes and work how they’re expected to.