14 DAY TRIAL // A new version of the A5 jailbreak tool developed by “the dream team” (Chronic Dev and iPhone Dev combined) has been released. Absinthe 0.4 adds support for a relatively old version of the Mac operating system.
A tweet signed @p0sixninja (Joshua Hill) hit the web about an hour ago with the following message: “Absinthe 0.4 was released yesterday to add support for Mac OSX 10.5.5 Leopard. No need to re-jailbreak …”
In other words, those who were having trouble jailbreaking their phones on a Leopard Mac can now do so without any hassle. The tool is also supported on PowerPC hardware, so you don’t necessarily need an Intel Mac to perform the jailbreak.
The change log, however, says Absinthe 0.4 adds support for OS X 10.5 - the original version of Leopard. All future versions (up to 10.5.8) should be supported as well.
The update also adds consistency check on startup to make sure required files are in place. For Windows users, it fixes a bug in payload generator that might cause a crash.
Absinthe 0.4 can jailbreak your iPhone 4S running iOS 5.0 or either 4S version of 5.0.1, and/or your iPad 2 (all models) running iOS 5.0.1.
The hack is ridiculously simple to perform - users just download the jailbreak tool on their computer, unzip the file and install it on their A5 device with a single click.
The Chronic Dev Team, whose Pod2g contributed a lot to the creation of Absinthe, warned in January that “you should not update to iOS 5.0.2 when it’s released, or you will lose your jailbreak!”
It is unclear when, or if Apple will release this particular software update, but it is safe to assume the company will patch all known vulnerabilities, and that includes the current jailbreak exploits.