Chariz

The Chariz team is saddened to learn that Lachlan Abbott, better known as LaughingQuoll, has passed away at 22.

His relationship to our team was instrumental to our success. Chariz, as it stands today, would not exist without his encouraging words, and his commitment to help the platform when it was in a difficult position by launching his tweaks Noctis Neo, Siliqua Pro, and Watermelon with us. He was a wonderful, creative member of the jailbreak community, and an incredible friend of ours. He will be sorely missed.

If you would like to make a donation in his memory, his family has suggested the Friends of the Earths Strzelecki Koala Action Team.

We know you’ve been waiting for it, and we’re glad to announce Cephei 2 has been released! This will allow many of your favorite tweaks to be updated for rootless jailbreaks.

Cephei 2.0 is a major refactor, exclusively supporting rootless jailbreaks. It removes numerous code paths that stayed around for compatibility with old tweaks or iOS releases, and is built to run on the new ElleKit hooking platform. Cephei 1.x will continue to be supported for rootful jailbreaks on iOS 15.

Most, but not all, tweaks should already work with Cephei 2. Please don’t expect tweaks converted from rootful to rootless to work. The developers of these tweaks will most likely need to release a rootless update if there are any crashes.

Full changelog here: https://chariz.com/get/cephei/changelog

Dopamine 1.0 (formerly Fugu15 Max) has been released! This is a jailbreak for iOS 15.0 - 15.4.1 on iPhone XS and newer (A12 - A15 and M1 devices), based on some truly incredible work by @opa334, @evelyne, Linus Henze, and others.

Going forward, we’re going to suggest users of XinaA15 upgrade to Dopamine, because it has far fewer compatibility issues and should be substantially more stable. We know it’s annoying not all tweaks work yet, but we also hope this release will prod more of your favorite tweak developers to release updates for rootless jailbreaks, which is how all jailbreaks will be going forward.

https://ellekit.space/dopamine/

🔔 Chariz now supports both traditional and rootless packages for developers to upload on their submissions. This means that users can expect to see rootless versions of their favorite packages as more developers start releasing them.

Stay tuned for updates!

Developers: When submitting packages to us, you’ll be able to upload a rootless and rootful variant of your package. We’ve sent an internal announcement providing more in-depth details about rootless support and other changes.

🧑‍💻 New library for tweak developers on Chariz: Comet by Ginsu.

Comet allows tweak settings screens to be written using SwiftUI. I personally haven’t used this yet, but it looks extremely promising! SwiftUI is definitely the future of tweak settings. No more of those ugly, clunky specifier plists 😉 Really hoping to see some delightfully designed tweak settings experiences from this.

https://chariz.com/get/comet

More info on GitHub: https://github.com/ginsudev/Comet

A christmas gift from us to our favorite community: NewTerm 3! We rewrote almost all of the app, it’s faster, has better rendering, and integrates better with your terminal programs. It supports iOS 14 – 16 including XinaA15.

Check out the beta here: https://chariz.com/get/newterm-beta

By the way, we still have more tweaks to give away! 🎉 Head to our Discord server to enter, and hang around for more throughout the next few days!

Merry Christmas Everyone! We’re running giveaways over the festive period on our Discord server so make sure to take a look and enter for a chance to win amazing prizes!

Some time passed since I wrote this post, and this week went a bit crazy with my attention being diverted in so many different places, so just updating (especially now that I can write 5000 characters in markdown):

• 👉 Zebra 1.1.30 – fixing a few things I broke in 1.1.29.

  Running behind when I really wanted this to release, but it’s still coming! This release also now supports searching for a single character in non-English languages – this is pretty important for languages such as Chinese – along with some various bug fixes.

• ⚪️ Cephei 1.18 – rootless support.

  It pretty much all works, with the exception of features that try to grab info from the dpkg status file, such as the package header cell, on Xina15. I’ll also be adding a built-in cell for linking to Mastodon profiles, because, well… it’s not exactly like I have much confidence in the direction the bird app is going right now.

• ⚪️ Alderis 1.2.2 – rootless support.

  Effectively I’ll just be creating a build for iphoneos-arm64 (proper rootless jailbreaks), since 1.2.2 works perfectly on iOS 15 and 16 under non-rootless/Xina15.

• ⚪️ NewTerm 3 beta 1 – near-total rewrite.

  Super excited for this! No doubt the most popular request I’ve been hearing over and over 😁 NewTerm 3 uses a more up-to-date terminal emulator framework supporting modern features. Just need to finish up a few things I left unfinished so I can start releasing official betas.

• ⚪️ Zebra 1.1.31 – Xina15 support.

  The way Xina15 has set up APT (or rather, not set it up) is very awkward, so all package managers needed to be updated to support it. I put this off for a bit so some of the awkward problems with it could be figured out first, and things start settling down to something stable I can work against. I feel we’re in a good position with it now, so I’m going to go ahead and implement this support soon.

• ⚪️ Zebra 2

  This is a longer-term thing, because it’s a very different beast (different horse?) from Zebra 1. I really hope we can start launching betas of Zebra 2 soon! If you haven’t seen it, check out our unveiling of the UI from a few months ago.

👋 Hello to everyone who’s new to Mastodon and the fediverse! Just wanted to post to get the word out that we’re on here.

Chariz helps you find apps and utilities to improve your life, and helps you support the developers that build your favorite apps.

We’re one of the top sources for jailbreak tweaks — special kinds of programs that add handy enhancements to iOS that aren’t possible within the App Store. You can customise your device exactly how you want it, and even access the underlying Unix operating system to use your device to its full potential. We’re glad to support an incredibly innovative community that loves Apple’s devices, and has proven the value of open operating systems ever since the first iPhone.

Seems interesting? Give us a follow!

👋 Hi again friends! If you’re on iOS 15 with the XinaA15 jailbreak, there’s now an update to Sileo with support for this jailbreak. You can find instructions here. (We also have a link to this on our package detail pages in Sileo for your convenience.)

Installing XinaA15 - Updating Sileo

Hi everyone! Just a quick update from us on the iOS 15 jailbreaks.

We’re starting to accept updates from developers for iOS 15, but with the caveat that the jailbreaks that are currently released for it, palera1n and XinaA15, are quite incomplete. This is unlike our usual policy where we wait until a final working jailbreak has been released to start accepting updates, but this year has obviously been a different one, and we want to help push things along as soon as possible.

Please be patient with things at the moment, not everything works properly just yet. Particularly, you won’t be able to download paid packages yet, as there is some issue with Zebra and Sileo’s ability to store logins in the keychain (iOS’s encrypted password storage) that both projects are currently looking into.

There is some more info about the state of things from this post on /r/jailbreak.

You can catch us on Discord or post on /r/jailbreak if you have any questions. Although, if the question is “should I jailbreak yet?”, the answer is most likely not yet, unless you’re willing to try some things that aren’t quite ready yet.