Dev-Team delivers on promise, posts massive blog update

Sep 19, 2011 08:27 GMT  ·  By

Tweets fired off by Musclenerd in the past 24 hours confirmed the impending release of a new Redsn0w jailbreak which, as of now, can be downloaded by Mac and Windows users immediately.

Yesterday, Dev-Team member Musclenerd tweeted that him and his crew would “push out [a] new redsn0w” later that night.

“remember it covers same devices and FWs as before, just more features!”, he said.

The iPhone Dev Team is keeping the cat-and-mouse game alive with the crew releasing the new Redsn0w 0.9.9b1 just minutes ago.

According to a new tweet authored Musclenerd, “Major improvements and features [have been] added to redsn0w 0.9.9b1!”

The hacker directs his 234,930 followers to Update #9 over at the Dev-Team blog where a lengthy list of new additions can be found.

For example, the new Redsn0w uses DFU mode to try to automatically determine which device and firmware users have.

It fetches pieces of public IPSW files from Apple, whereas non-public iOS restoration files must be provided manually. The new Redsn0w caches what it needs from both for future use.

The complete set of new features (too technical to paraphrase) can be found listed below.

· “Just boot” is a tethered boot.  Uses whatever “Preferences” you’ve set for boot logo and kernel boot-args · “Pwned DFU” puts your device in a pwned DFU state for some of the iTunes stuff detailed below · “Recovery fix” gets past 1015 types of errors (when baseband portion of restore fails).  Should work on iOS5 beta too · “Select IPSW” is for picking non-public IPSWs, or overriding auto-detection · “SHSH blobs” has a bunch of options… · “Fetch” - fetch current PARTIAL blobs on device.  Should complete in under 10 or 15 seconds.  Puts the set of PARTIAL of blobs on your computer as a plist.  Checks if Cydia already has a full set for this device and build.  If not, it submits this PARTIAL set and returns Cydia’s acknowledgement or rejection · “Verify”  - cryptographically verifies existing blob files from either redsn0w, TinyUmbrella, or Cydia server.  You can select a whole bunch of blobs to verify at once if you want (like the TinyUmbrella directory) · “Submit”  - both verifies and submits one or more blob files to Cydia.  This lets you copy your entire TinyUmbrella cache of blobs up to the Cydia server · “Query” - queries the Cydia server for all available FULL or PARTIAL blobs for a given set of ECIDs · “Stitch” - stitches either FULL or PARTIAL blobs to a STOCK or CUSTOM IPSW

Redsn0w users will want to visit the Dev-Team’s blog post for additional details about each of these new features. For example, stitching is not yet supported on iPhones.

Multiple other warning signs are there as well, so be sure to read through them all before proceeding with your jailbreak. As usual, we would like to point out that Apple does not condone the practice.