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*Fix a symlink that would prevent some substrate extensions from working with libsubstitute
  
*Fix a symlink that would prevent some substrate extensions from working with libsubstitute
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*Fix an issue in the substrate shim where substitute could crash if tweaks tried hooking nonexistent selectors
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*Fix an issue with the dylib loader dragging UIKit (and all its tweaks) into every single daemon
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*Make jailbreakd more robust with input struct size check enforcement
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*Add a working launchctl for loading launch daemons (thanks nullpixel)
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*Load dropbear as a launch daemon & fix zombie process issue (thanks nullpixel)
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*Set kernel task as host special port #4 (thanks stek29)
 
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Revision as of 07:33, 17 January 2018

Electra
Developer(s) CoolStar
Initial release 13 Jan 2018 (2018-01-13)
Stable release Beta 6 / 16 January 2018; 8 years ago
Operating system iOS
Available in English
Type Jailbreaking
Website Electra

Electra is a semi-untethered jailbreak for devices running iOS 11.0 - 11.1.2. The jailbreak does not include Cydia, because saurik is yet to update it for iOS 11.

Version Change Log

Version Date Changes
Beta 1 13 January, 2018 Initial release
Beta 2 13 January, 2018
  • Fix Anemone not recognising themes
  • Fix black screen when jailbreaking with tweaks enabled
Beta 3 13 January, 2018
  • Unlock all NVRAM variables (including setting boot-nonce) [thanks stek29]
  • Add support for binaries with SHA1 hashes (so existing dylibs work fine, but executables will need the entitlement) [thanks stek29]
  • Clean up some garbage files that were present from previous build (yay macOS resource forks and .DS_Store)
  • Hopefully fix the app icon not displaying on iPhones
  • Significantly speed up the rejailbreak process
Beta 3-2 14 January, 2018
  • Don't unlock NVRAM variables due to the patch crashing some devices.
Beta 3-3 14 January, 2018
  • Fix the NVRAM patching crashing due to the memory page being unmapped (thanks Siguza)
Beta 4 14 January, 2018
  • Disable NVRAM patching as it still appears to be unstable
  • Make amfid patch more reliable so that more dylibs can be run properly
  • Add a "shim" so existing substrate tweaks can use libsubstitute without modifications
Beta 4-2 14 January, 2018
  • Fix a symlink that would prevent some substrate extensions from working with libsubstitute
Beta 5 14 January, 2018
  • Fix an issue in the substrate shim where substitute could crash if tweaks tried hooking nonexistent selectors
  • Fix an issue with the dylib loader dragging UIKit (and all its tweaks) into every single daemon
  • Make jailbreakd more robust with input struct size check enforcement
Beta 6 16 January, 2018
  • Add a working launchctl for loading launch daemons (thanks nullpixel)
  • Load dropbear as a launch daemon & fix zombie process issue (thanks nullpixel)
  • Set kernel task as host special port #4 (thanks stek29)
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