Electra

Electra

Developer(s)	CoolStar
Initial release	13 Jan 2018 (2018-01-13)
Stable release	1.0.4 / 9 March 2018
Operating system	iOS
Available in	English
Type	Jailbreaking
Website	Electra

Electra for iOS 11.0 - 11.1.2

Electra is a semi-untethered jailbreak for devices running iOS 11.0 - 11.3.1. The first beta was released on January 13, 2018. Several betas were released. The betas did not include support for Cydia. The developer, CoolStar then seeded six release candidate versions to developers with working Cydia support. He made the first full release on February 26, 2018.

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)
Beta 6-2	17 January, 2018	Fix kernel memory leak in entitlement injector
Beta 6-3	18 January, 2018	Use host special port #4 to get tfp0 in jailbreakd (thanks n_triangle_dev) Add jailbreakd as a launchd service so it gets restarted if it dies (thanks n_triangle_dev)
Beta 6-4	20 January, 2018	Don't make jailbreakd rely on pidlistuptrs bug (thanks stek29) log dylib load errors in SBInject (thanks stek29) Clean up launchd payloads (thanks stek29) Load dylibs alphabetically from SBInject (thanks c0ldra1n) Check for jailbreakd start before reloading backboardd Make rejailbreaking significantly faster
Beta 7	23 January, 2018	amfid now gets re-patched if it ever gets killed (stek29 and coolstar) clean up amfid patch (stek29) Add 3d touch shortcut for jailbreaking (ca13ra1)
Beta 8	26 January, 2018	Sandbox mitigations are now in place so /Library, /private/var/mobile/Library/Preferences and /bootstrap are now accessible to all processes! (stek29, coolstar) Workaround sandbox mitigations not taking place on apps' first launch (coolstar) Improve reliability of amfid patch so it doesn't hang on malformed requests (e.g. SysSecInfo) Known Bug: Apps will take longer to launch the first time they're launched after rejailbreaking due to a workaround for another bug w/ unsandboxing not working on first launch
Beta 8-2	26 January, 2018	Fixes issues with WebKit (Safari/Chrome), receiving calls, and downloading App Store apps by not working around the sandbox issue in those processes Known Bug: Apps will take longer to launch the first time they're launched after rejailbreaking due to a workaround for another bug w/ unsandboxing not working on first launch
Beta 9	27 January, 2018	Sandbox is now working on the first launch for apps and daemons (thanks stek29) Remove 0.5 second delay when launching apps or daemons that was present since beta 1 (coolstar) Check if a new beta is available when electra is launched Double-launch workaround has been removed since it's no longer needed, fixing all bugs introduced on beta 8 Remove AnemoneFonts.dylib as it was causing problems Important Note: If you are upgrading from beta 8-2 or lower to any beta 9 or higher, you will need to reinstall all tweaks and themes
Beta 10	01 February, 2018	Fix certain codesigned binaries not working with our amfi payload (coolstar) Add darwintools, debiantools (not dpkg), shell-cmds, system-cmds and uikittools Re-sign most of the bootstrap as SHA1 to prepare for them to be pushed to a repo Code cleanup (stek29 and nullpixel) Fix update checker erroneously saying there's an update in airplane mode
Beta 11	09 February, 2018	Add libjailbreak so command line tools, apps, etc. can talk to jailbreakd if needed (n_triangle_dev) Use XPC instead of UDP from libjailbreak and xpcproxy (n_triangle_dev) Use TCP instead of UDP from launchd (coolstar)
Beta 11-2	10 February, 2018	Significantly improve the reliability of jailbreakd so it can handle a large amount of process launches at once (coolstar) Make jailbreakd print directly to stderr rather than NSLog (coolstar) Fix a race condition in beta 11 that would cause jailbreakd to sometimes inject too early, and thus fail to inject (coolstar)
Beta 11-3	12 February, 2018	Fix a race condition on jailbreakd's launch to improve success rate of jailbreak
1.0	26 February, 2018	Initial Release
1.0.1	26 February, 2018	Fix some false positives where Electra would think topanga was installed when only liberiOS was
1.0.2	27 February, 2018	Fix false positives where Electra would think topanga was installed when only liberiOS was Prevent loading pacakges from saurik's repo (since Cydia can't be patched to remove it) Fix APT 0.7 Strict (lib) on devices that may have already updated to the broken copy from saurik's repo
1.0.3	4 March, 2018	Revert change to XPC in xpcproxy in beta 11 Fix intermittent freezing issues that would affect certain devices on beta 10 -> 1.0.2
1.0.4	9 March, 2018	Remove all XPC code that could possibly have been problematic ever since beta 11 Replace TCP, UDP and XPC with MIG (thanks Psychotea from the Meridian team) Recommended to also update Tweak Injector to 1.0.4 from our repo to get safe mode in system daemons as well

Electra for iOS 11.2 - 11.3.1

With Electra's update to support devices running any iOS between 11.2 to 11.3.1 (including betas), delays came in place due to Apple's mitigations remounting the root filesystem that was introduced in iOS 11.3. There are many tweaks that need to do certain things within the filesystem, and because of Apple's mitigation, a APFS remount workaround was needed to complete the jailbreak. Chinese security researcher Min Zheng had already found and created his own bypass to remount the root filesystem which many other developers had tried to implement in their own way. During this time Jonathan Levin who created LiberTV jailbreak for AppleTV was announcing his plans for updating LiberTV for a APFS remount which the Electra Team could use. Coolstar had already found a 0day in APFS which would allow this APFS remount become a reality but wanted to save it just in case for iOS 12. As this news was seen by the community, many people where angry that Coolstar wanted to delay the update for Electra and save the 0day. Coolstar had found another 0day and decided to end the relying on Levins remount and use one of his APFS 0days instead. Later on the updated Electra was released on July 6, 2018.

Version	Date	Changes
1.0	6 July, 2018	Initial Release