There was a major Christmas surprise for the jailbreak community as a jailbreak for iOS 11 was released. The iOS jailbreak scene has more or less been stagnant since Apple launched a bug bounty system back in 2016, as hackers basically have two choices when they discover a iOS security flaw that could lead to a jailbreak: They can submit it to Apple and be rewarded up to $200,000... Or they can release it to the wild, get no money, and instead just deal with Reddit drama. Judging by the complete lack of jailbreaks we've seen in recent versions of iOS, this wasn't a difficult decision. Well, Jonathan "Morpheus______" Levin was apparently feeling extra generous when he released an iOS 11 jailbreak into the wild early this morning:

Santa's early by 30 mins because it's been a long day. Jailbreak movement #2: LiberIOS, to liberate (almost) all other *OS devices - 11.0 and 11.1.x ONLY.https://t.co/yNe7zujxl5
Again, please use official page - I might update.
And no, we're not done. But that's all tonight.
— Jonathan Levin (@Morpheus______) December 26, 2017

This particular jailbreak comes with a pretty significant catch: Right now, all it is is the jailbreak itself. You can SSH into your device and do all the other things that make installing Cydia and all the other jailbreak tweaks possible... But Cydia isn't working yet, neither are the various substrates that Cydia requires. When will Cydia and everything else start working" Well, that ...