This release is a beta preview and as such should not be installed on a primary device
What’s new
Bug fixes
- Fixes support for A7 devices
- Fixes an issue in 12.4 which caused the device to panic and reboot on attempted shutdown
- Fixes an issue that caused the keychain to lose new passwords
- Fixes an issue which caused the GUI/ncurses to crash when used more than once
- Fixes an issue where a userspace reboot won’t restart dropbear
Other changes
- Added 13.4 and 13.4.1 support
- Introducing kernel patch finder v2 - rewritten from the ground up for sanic speed
- You can now quit from the webra1n interface
Known issues
- The Apple TV 4K will produce a -20 error, even on a successful jailbreak
- The exploit may not work as reliably on some devices, such as the Raspberry Pi Zero and Raspberry Pi 3.
- When trying to jailbreak multiple devices, only the first attempt will succeed.
Workaround: relaunch checkra1n after every jailbreak attempt.
Other known issues are available on our issue tracker.
This beta is only available for macOS and Linux. Work is ongoing to support Windows, which will be added in a later release.
Package managers
At the moment, checkra1n only supports installing Cydia. Support for other package managers is coming soon, and will not require a checkra1n update.