CoolStar’sElectra jailbreak tool for iOS 11.0-11.1.2 devicesreceived an update on Thursday, bringing it up to beta 8. The new version comes only a few days afterthe announcement of beta 7.
Just like theLiberiOSjailbreak toolthat got released last year, Electra utilizesIan Beer’s open-source tfp0 exploit. Furthermore, it doesn’t installCydia, as Saurik has yet toupdate it for iOS 11 devices.
Update:Beta 9 is nearing release and should fix some rather frustrating problems found in beta 8. We’d recommend holding off for now.
Electra beta 8 doesn’t change much in these regards, but it does bring some improvements. One of the most noteworthy is the implementation of sandbox mitigations, which makes/Library,/private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences, and/bootstrapavailable to all processes running on the pwned device.
Citingthe official Electra website, beta 8 brings the following changes to the tool:
It’s worth noting that Electra uses an implementation of jailbreakd, andSaurik plans to move away from jailbreakdin place of an entirely-new dyld-hooking mechanism when he releases the updatedMobile SubstratealongsideCydia for iOS 11.
It’s uncertain whether Electra will support Cydia and Mobile Substrate after Saurik finally updates them foriOS 11, so we’d recommend that all non-advanced jailbreakers continue waiting for an official update from Saurik before proceeding.
While many jailbreakers have purportedly used Electra without any issues, we haven’t used it ourselves and can’t speak for its reliability. That said, if you choose to move forward with Electra,you do so at your own risk.
As for why we haven’t used it yet; well, let’s just say that we want to hear from Saurik first about Cydia and Mobile Substrate before moving forward with jailbreak tools. After all,Apple doesn’t sign iOS 11.1.2 anymore, so there’d be no way of restoring back tojailbreakablefirmware if something went wrong.
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