The entire jailbreak community is desperately waiting for a Cydia update since quite a few days. Here’s the real reason why an update is taking a whole lot of time.
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Saurik vs the World
Everyone knows Cydia is why users jailbreak their devices and the source of everything that’s good in the jailbreak world.
As soon as jailbreak developers prepare a jailbreak, Saurik begins to closely work with them to integrate Cydia in their tools.
However, things seem a bit different this time around because he is unwilling to work with any of the jailbreak developers and even contemplating about leaving Cydia’s development.
Here’s a detailed of explanation of feuds between Saurik and jailbreak developers and why this is happening. As always, I am not siding with or against anyone here, just reporting about what transpired between the various developers.
Morpheus
Jonathan Levin aka Morpheus posted a while back that he hates Cydia. The security researcher openly attacked Cydia and called its .deb format “crap”.
Here’s a tweet from his official Twitter handle.
Saurik was quick to respond to this.
The godfather of jailbreaking also said that all the new age developers hate him and Cydia and try to “poke” him on every conceivable opportunity.
Morpheus tried to contact Saurik and gave up on an update for LiberiOS when he didn’t answer him back.
Saurik was actively replying to comments and clearing doubts about the upcoming update all this while so he definitely chose to ignore all his requests.
Cheesecakeufo
Abraham Masri aka Cheesecakeufo openly stated on his Github page that he might remove Cydia from his iOS 11 jailbreak.
While he was quick to remove it, it did seem to irk Saurik a bit.
He later clarified that he only dislikes Cydia’s dependencies such as apt/dpkg, not the Cydia installer itself.
The young developer also said that adopting these dependencies for to.panga iOS 11 jailbreak is a lot of work and that’s why he decided to remove it altogether.
Coolstar
Saurik’s and Coolstar’s feud goes way back and is yet to show any signs of cooling down.
In 2014, Coolstar accused Saurik of stealing code from his ThemeLib project and implementing it in Winterboard theming tool.
Saurik actually never stole any code from anyone’s project and this is the reason why he abandoned Winterboard completely. There’s no Winterboard update for iOS 10 even till now.
Although Coolstar tried to contact him and even comment on his replies, Saurik didn’t pay heed to him for obvious reasons.
Coolstar later clarified that he isn’t working with Saurik on an update.
Why is a Cydia update getting delayed?
Cydia is getting delayed as Saurik is not really working alongside the developers who are actually working on an iOS 11 jailbreak.
Instead, Saurik is currently working with old-time jailbreak developers. He hasn’t clarified as to which team or group of developers he is working with on Substrate.
According to me, he is most likely working with the Evad3rs Dev Team, the developers behind evasi0n jailbreak.
He is working with these developers on specific parts of the upcoming iOS 11 jailbreak.
The reason behind this is that the older jailbreak developers worked in groups and teams instead of relying on open-source exploits and working on them independently.
Back in the golden days of jailbreaking, there was a lot less drama and the community worked as a unit instead of calling each other out.
Therefore, Saurik is working with those developers, who he knows and those who are still active to some degree in the security research community.
Upcoming Developments
1. MSHookRemote
MSHookRemote is a completely new component of Cydia. It is built from scratch by Saurik and will allow us to modify other processes while staying in one process.
He didn’t reveal many details about it but this but I guess this is the part he is working on with other developers.
2. Powerful Substrate
The upcoming version of Substrate is relatively powerful than the previous versions. It is more capable of injecting extensions into binaries.
This obviously translates into better and more potent tweak injection system for iOS 11.
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Yeah this is really one sided. The CoolStar person actually tried to colaborrate but because it uses jailbreak.d which Saurik doesn’t like, he refused to help. Basically if Saurik doesn’t get his own way in a collaboration he gets angry.
Well, it comes down to why people want to jailbreak… and it’s likely for Cydia… and all it’s familiar tweaks, UI, repos/sources, mods, etc! Once Cydia becomes available to any Jailbreak Utility, then its a bonafide jailbreak version, and only then will the masses gravitate to it. I personally think Saurik is old school and has to be consistently such. So all you haters are just upset he isn’t part of the current devs who are working independently as so does he, but not entirely. He assumes responsibility but not credit for what he does, so cut the man a break, make no mistake…. He is working with a team and it’s obvious that he is dark due to the exclusive changes that are coming, and it will be worth the wait. And no I don’t know any of these people … I just have a hunch!
You are absolutely spot on with that!
The guy deserves our upmost respect. I can’t believe those fuckers have to be do cruel to him. Now we all suffer for the bullshit they sling at the poor guy. They are simply jealous that they will. Never become a the man behind Cydia. The fucking nerve to be so nasty.
Ay chill, “ Contemplating about leaving Cydia’s development. “ Saurik said he has his passion for what he has with Cydia, so the whole Jailbreak commmunity has to let him develop the best Cydia for everybody to use on every device supporting iOS 10.X.X – 11.1.2 firmware’s. Give him the time he needs, he’ll bless everybody when the time comes with that dope Cydia – #(/13SS-GETIT)arm64-yallniggasneedtobepatient//
He actually did say he wanted to leave Cydia and jailbreak development back in 2016.
I see, things have changed though. I doubt he will abandon Cydia now, let’s see what happens!
He isn’t abandoning and working on it for now.