The news today is that it appears GreenPois0n RC5 will be bringing untethered jailbreak to iOS 4.2.1 sooner rather than later. Twitter individual @JHackstar tipped us off to a Wiki showing that GreenPois0n RC5 is ‘coming extremely soon’ as well as will support all devices.
The reason for the new motion is that Apple has now closed the loophole hackers have been utilizing up up until iOS 4.3. now there’s undoubtedly no point in waiting on the new update to be released it’s been made a decision that GreenPois0n will go ahead as-is, with a new attempt at 4.3 to be made later. iphone hacker Pod2g has likewise verified this on Twitter:
The great point is that since of this (and the truth that Apple fixed the kernel exploit in 4.3), we’re all working back on releasing gp.
That’s excellent news on 3 levels. First, I’m sure lots of you have been waiting on an untethered jailbreak on 4.2.1 for a long time now. Second, the new GreenPois0n will work on ALL hardware. It’s excellent to hear that nobody will be left out in the chilly this time around around. Thirdly, it’s great to hear a release isn’t as well far away.
More information coming as soon as we get it, so stay tunes folks!
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