Electra is a semi-untethered jailbreak for devices running iOS 11.0 - 11.1.2.
Version Change Log
| Version
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Date
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Changes
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| Beta 1
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13 January, 2018
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Initial release
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| Beta 2
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13 January, 2018
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- Fix Anemone not recognising themes
- Fix black screen when jailbreaking with tweaks enabled
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| Beta 3
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13 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 3-2
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14 January, 2018
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- Don't unlock NVRAM variables due to the patch crashing some devices.
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| Beta 3-3
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14 January, 2018
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- Fix the NVRAM patching crashing due to the memory page being unmapped (thanks Siguza)
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| Beta 4
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14 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 4-2
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14 January, 2018
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- Fix a symlink that would prevent some substrate extensions from working with libsubstitute
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| Beta 5
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14 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 6
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16 January, 2018
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- 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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| Beta 6-2
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17 January, 2018
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- Fix kernel memory leak in entitlement injector
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| Beta 6-3
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18 January, 2018
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- 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)
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| Beta 6-4
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20 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 7
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23 January, 2018
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- 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)
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| Beta 8
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26 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 8-2
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26 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 9
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27 January, 2018
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- 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
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| Beta 10
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1 February, 2018
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- 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
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| 1.0
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26 February, 2018
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| 1.0.1
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26 February, 2018
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- Fix some false positives where Electra would think topanga was installed when only liberiOS was
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