Apple released the iOS 6.1.3 software update on March 19th. It fixed the Lock screen bug and brought improvements to Maps app for Japanese users.
Unfortunately from a jailbreaker point of view, it also killed the evasi0n jailbreak as Apple fixed 4 security flaws used by the evad3r to develop the jailbreak.
Yesterday, Apple released iOS 6.1.3 to fix the Lock screen bug and bring improvements to Maps app for Japanese users.
Back in late February, the evad3rs dev team confirmed that Apple had fixed couple of vulnerabilities used by team in the evasi0n jailbreak in iOS 6.1.3 beta 2.
This means that the evasi0n jailbreak, the most popular jailbreak ever, will no longer work with iOS 6.1.3, which was just released to users couple of hours back to fix the Lock screen security flaw.
evad3rs dev team has just announced the release of evasi0n 1.5.2, a minor update for their popular jailbreak tool.
The update now includes localization for French, German and Chinese and also updated Cydia package list.
Update: evad3rs has just released evasi0n 1.5.3 to fix a crashing issue on Windows.
evad3rs dev team has quietly rolled an update for evasi0n. evasi0n 1.5.1 comes with an updated Cydia package list.
It has been almost a month since evasi0n, the most eagerly awaited jailbreak was released for iOS 6.x and new devices like iPhone 5, iPad 4 and iPad mini.
Jay Freeman aka saurik, founder of Cydia has revealed (via pod2g) that over 14 million iOS devices running iOS 6.x.x have been jailbroken.
Notcom a.k.a semaphore has released a new version of TinyUmbrella (v6.12.00) to add support for iOS 6.1.2 that was released last week.
TinyUmbrella allows you to take backups of SHSH blobs (ECID SHSH). Hackers have previously figured out a way to use the SHSH blobs to downgrade to older iOS versions even after Apple stopped signing the firmware file.
We’ve some bad news for jailbreakers. David Wang aka planetbeing has revealed that iOS 6.1.3 beta 2 that was seeded to developers last week, fixes a vulnerability that was used by evad3rs dev team for the evasi0n jailbreak.
This means that evasi0n jailbreak won’t work on iOS devices running iOS 6.1.3.
Hot on the heels of releasing evasi0n 6.0-6.1.2 Untether Cydia package, evad3rs dev team has also released a new version evasi0n – evasi0n 1.5 that improves boot-up times and also comes with updated Cydia package list.
