We had reported yesterday that the iPhone Dev team had warned users who want to jailbreak their iPhone to avoid upgrading to iTunes 8.2 as it breaks their QuickPwn and PwnageTool tools and iPhone tunneling suite (ssh over USB) required for jailbreaking.
They have just published a post which provides more details on why it breaks jailbreaking and their plans to address the issue. They have also reported that yesterday's iTunes update might also break the hack used by Palm to sync music from iTunes to Palm Pre.
Dev Team explains:
Here’s why you jailbreakers and yellowsn0w users shouldn’t really accept that “Update now?” question:
Most people aren’t at 3.0. In fact 3.0 is still in beta and has lots of bugs (especially related to push updates).
It breaks your ability to use QuickPwn, PwnageTool, and iPhone Tunneling Suite (ssh over usb). We don’t think this is a deliberate breakage of these tools. It’s just that Apple has updated a low-level USB protocol that normally only Apple cares about (but jailbreakers care about).
So far, the only appreciable change to iTunes 8.2 is the Genius function working on videos.
It may actually break Palm Pre’s connection to the device (please give us feedback on this).
This update is one of those that incidentally breaks QuickPwn and PwnageTool. It doesn’t seem like an anti-jailbreak. But nonetheless, it will break your ability to re-run QuickPwn or PwnageTool’s dfu-entry.
They have also confirmed that the changes in iTunes 8.2 which breaks their tools can be easily fixed. However, they don’t plan to release updated version of their tools until iPhone OS 3.0 is released, which is the reason, they are advising users to avoid upgrading to iTunes 8.2 for now.
They have also commented on their future plans to update yellowsn0w, world’s first and only software solution to unlock iPhone 3G, for firmware after 2.2 or basebands after 02.28.00.
If there is a yellowsn0w update for firmware after 2.2 (or basebands after 02.28), there is no way it would ever be released before 3.0 is official. It just wouldn’t make any sense to release an exploit for something that only those who have beta 3.0’s (NDA signers) could use. Most people in the world aren’t NDA signers. Any yellowsn0w update for 3.0 would need to happen *after* 3.0 is officially available.
It will be interesting to see how soon they will release updated version of their hacking tools to jailbreak iPhone OS 3.0 and ultimately release updated version of yellowsn0w to unlock iPhone running iPhone OS 3.0.
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