Chronic Dev: Don’t Install iOS 5.0.2 Just Yet

A note included with the official Absinthe jailbreak release says that jailbreakers should refrain themselves from downloading and installing the stock iOS 5.0.2 IPSW from Apple when it’s released.

This is not the first time iOS hackers warn about the potential of losing a jailbreak by installing a new firmware that will likely include a patch from Apple.

One of the team’s members specifically states that “if you haven’t yet heeded the advice I gave weeks ago – before you take one step further, upgrade your firmware to iOS 5.0.1 NOW! (Unless you need an iPhone4s Unlock).”

“Also, we don’t mean to beat you over the head with this warning, but please remember: you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak! Bookmark our GreenPois0n blog now, and be the first to know the next time we advise our jailbreak users to safely update their iOS firmware,” the Team says.

iOS 5.0.2 not only isn’t around the corner, Apple has yet to seed any betas to its developer community. It’s not unheard of for Apple to test different iOS builds in parallel (currently the focus is iOS 5.1), but for the time being iOS 5.0.2 is not on the agenda, at least officially.

The team plans to talk about the particularities of the Absinthe A5 jailbreak in a future discussion. A post signed Pod2g includes some of the key details about the Corona untether, which includes many of the exploits used in Absinthe.

“As to the amazingly innovative fusion of exploits used in this iOS jailbreak – we plan to save most of that discussion for a panel/presentation we hope to give at a conference later this year,” Chronic Dev said.

“If you want to learn more now, pod2g wrote an excellent blog post after the release of Corona, in which he describes in detail the userland & kernel exploits we used, both for the A4 iOS 5.0.1 untethered jailbreak and as a starting point for this Absinthe A5 toolkit.”