Installer 4.0 Coming Soon

Did you patiently wait for a 2.0 jailbreak? Were you elated when the PwnageTool 2.0 became available? Did you spend hours on the install, battling long restores and a bug-ridden process? And then finally, upon achieving the 2.0 jailbreak, realize that damn -- there's nothing to do! Sure, you can get OpenSSH through Cydia, but where are all of the glorious, unsigned, 3rd party applications? Well, the nice folks over at RiP Dev have given us an update on the progress of Installer 4.0 and why they didn't release it in conjunction the Dev Team's PwnageTool 2.0. Though this only solves half the battle (making it easier to find & install 3rd party apps), the apps themselves actually need to be ported over for 2.0 firmware compatibility as well. While some may just need to be recompiled, the process for others could consist of an extensive rebuild. Nonetheless, progress is being made, and you can check out the full blog entry from the RiP Dev post below:

Big Bear and Us: Installer and Kate for 2.0 Status As you surely know by now, Pwnage Tool 2.0 is out. And for now, it has no Installer 4.0 in it. This is because we have decided to not release an undertested product into the wild - we don’t want any mess on the phone this time. So Installer 4.0 will come out soon… as soon as we’re confident it functions properly, we will release it - and trust us, we are not going to delay it for a long time. Meanwhile, all of the popular tools that can’t get to App Store for various reasons will have to be redone for firmware 2.0 - mostly because the inner workings of the system (in large, the way user interface works) have changed a lot since 1.1.x, so it will take some time for the authors to update and test their stuff. We expect the Installer to be ready by the time there’s something to offer you. A lyrical off-topic. Why Big Bear in the post title and what the heck has it to do with the rest? :) The answer is simple - every iPhone OS release has it’s own codename (the name of the volume on the disk image file containing firmware files). 1.1.4 used to be LittleBear, and 2.0, you guessed it, is BigBear. :) Now what about Kate? It is 90% ported to 2.0 as of now and we are finishing the remaining work and then testing it - so expect it to be out for Installer 4.0 in a week or two. Of course, you will not have to purchase it again if you already did (and if you have changed your iPhone to 3G model, email our sales department and they will arrange the license transfer for you). Thanks for your patience and support!

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