.If you haven’t noticed, i’ve come back with a vengeance the last couple of weeks into my AppleTV work. Here is an overview of all the news that has occurred in this time span
The main goal right now is to get completely away from KPP bypass based jailbreaks in favor of the more stable jailbreakd future. There will be some growing pains with this, and some stuff might just straight up not work yet, but it will all come along in due time and will be completely worth the initial pain for the future.
11.1 Is already at beta level full support, Code injection is working, uicache has been updated to get our app loading working as well. nitoTV can be installed and has successfully installed applications already. Still needs more aggressive testing and an updated bootstrap. But its good enough for now for me to focus on other issues.
11.2.x / 11.3 Is not yet supported. There are two exploits available and only one of them can be used at this time, and it has yet to yield a single success on tvOS. And thats empty_list (yes i've tried the updated version). multi_path is not applicable without an additional sandbox escape which i doubt anyone is willing to burn to make that exploit, that requires a paid account, to work on ONE platform. jaywalker will be working on making that exploit work, in conjunction with any other help he can give to the electra team to sort out remaining 11.3 issues.
10.2.2 Support / greeng0blin future
10.2.2 support made some great strides last night, i got jailbreakd working and some form of code injection working. PsychoTea's approach for jailbreakd is a bit different in some places and im not sure if i can just use the same stuff from 11.1 instead that i already have fullly working, requires more investigation. But i do have a bootstrap working that enables openssh and some basic code injection. nitoTV was loaded (albeit hackily and not properly through uicache) but it also is up and running and installing applications.
The best news of using meridians updated source is that PsychoTea worked directly with Siguza to make v0rtex work 10000x better than its previous versions. The success rate is approx 90% so far if not better. This will make ALL of our lives much easier.
The only bad news about anything 10.2.2 related is since it utilizes beta code for a yet to be released version of meridian i might be tethered to his release schedule for that particular update. We'll find out more soon on that topic.
Im not sure if we are going to provide an update path for 10.2.2 greeng0blin users, that is to be determined and if you want to make sure you can get the best experience from it, you may want to restore your 10.2.2 device now while its still signing (who knows when that window will close)
It appears apple has FINALLY given us feature parity for downloading apps that used to support a current firmware and no longer do. (ie netflix) so on 10.2.2 now you can download an old supported version of netflix! I imagine this will work with other apps that used to support 10.2.2 as well, try it out and let us know!
Long story short, a lot of progress has been made for the KPPless future, no ETA's but hopefully a month or so isn't unrealistic timeline for release for at VERY least 10.2.2 and 11.1 support. But we hope to launch all the support at once.
