At the start of the week, theSileoTeam turned a new leaf that resonated positively with the jailbreak community when it said that most of the first alpha iteration of Sileo v2.0.0had been published to GitHub as open source software. But since then, the team has been particularly tight-lipped about when it would be pushed to the default repositories for hands-on testing.
Fortunately, that’s no longer a mystery. In an announcementshared via Twitter Friday evening, the Sileo Team said that Sileo v2.0.0 alpha 1 could now be installed from theElectraandChimerarepositories on their respective jailbreaks:
From what we can gather, this is a third build of Sileo that will not overwrite your existing installations of Sileo or Sileo beta. The alpha build runs as a third and separate package manager on yourHome screen, assuming you also have the beta version of Sileo installed.
According to the Tweet, Sileo v2.0.0 alpha 1 does not have a “New” tab for viewing the latestjailbreak tweakreleases and also does not support purchasing jailbreak extensions. For these intents and purposes, the Sileo Team recommends using the stable release or the latest v1.7.x beta.
In case you missed it, Sileo Team and Electra Team lead developer CoolStaralso recently released Chimera1n, enablingcheckra1njailbreak users to overwrite the checkra1n bootstrap with a Chimera variant.
Are you happy to see that the latest open-source version of Sileo is now officially available for installation onjailbrokenhandsets for testing? Discuss whether you’ll be checking it out or not and why in the comments section below.
