Controversies in the jailbreak community come one after other. People actually want to know what’s happening with Saurik and the iOS 11 for Cydia and Substrate that he talked about on Reddit weeks ago. However, Saurik’s latest Reddit post reveals his views on Electra Jailbreak, Cydia, and Substrate.

After the Electra 1.0 public launch this week, Saurik aka Jay Freeman, in his yet another Reddit post once again discussed the CoolStar’s jailbreak tool and his progress on updating Cydia and Substrate for iOS 11.

Saurik’s latest Reddit post reflects his usual writing style, which is being in-depth and full of knowledge-bombs. You might know that the latest Electra jailbreak is the only iOS 11 compatible jailbreak featuring Cydia, or we can say a hacked-together and modified version. In particular, he mentions apt 0.7. Saurik claims that anyone using Electra is basically using a forked version of his work that likely won’t bode well for the future and for anything official released by Saurik that we all know has been promised for quite a while now:

Jay Freeman has made it clear that he won’t support unofficial versions of Cydia or their dependencies. He also recommends Electra users to not to install any of his official updates just for the sake of jailbreak stability.

FWIW, people using Electra are essentially using a fork of everything I’ve ever done that was put together by coolstar with no thought to how it would affect anything else I’m working on or will be releasing, either in the near future or in the distant future; so, if you have installed Electra, I would strongly recommend never installing any of the packages I push going forward: I have done no testing with Electra nor do I have any interest at all in spending time I don’t really have to try to figure out how to maintain compatibility with Electra. … The new version of Cydia I’m going to be pushing will probably not work without the new version of Substrate, and I’m pretty sure the new version of Substrate I’m going to be pushing will not work on Electra (it definitely doesn’t work on LiberiOS, which is a “vaguely supported upgrade path”; it is possible it will sort of “half” work on Electra, and there’s one design option which might allow it to sort of work, but I’ve been leaning towards two other ways of doing it that I already have working, one of which simply could not ever function correctly on Electra and the other one which simply is assuming a bootstrap process that is based on the Cydia jailbreak instead of on Electra).

This basically means that in case, if you’ve used Electra jailbreak tool to jailbreak your iOS 11.0-11.1.2 device, then you shouldn’t wait for Saurik’s update or help with Cydia or -related problems. As an alternative, he says to direct any Electra-related questions to the developer CoolStar.

Saurik in through the Reddit post has also confirmed that any future version of Cydia and Substrate will not actually support LiberiOS. The LiberiOS jailbreak tool is the only alternative to Electra for jailbreaking iOS 11.0-11.1.2, but it doesn’t install Cydia as the latter does.

Saurik also presented the answer to the important question that everyone wants to ask: What’s taking so long for Cydia? He wrote that he recently felt ill that limited his ability to make important progress on Cydia and Substrate for iOS 11. However, it seems that things are starting to look up and the development will be continuing from now.

Saurik’s latest Reddit post serve as reassurance that he hasn’t forgotten about the jailbreak community yet but unfortunately, there’s still no official estimate time arrival for these updates, Presently, jailbreak users can either continue waiting for Saurik’s official releases or jump with CoolStar’s Electra jailbreak tool. The decision is ultimately up to them.

You can read Saurik’s full comment by clicking here.