Chinese developers release jailbreak for iOS 7.1.1

A team of Chinese developers has released a jailbreak called Pangu for devices running iOS 7.1.1. This allows users to jailbreak the iPad Air and iPhone 5s, among other things. For now, the tool only works under Windows.

The jailbreak came online Monday evening on the site of Pangu and is in Chinese. There is now also an English version. The Chinese developers also say they are working on a version for OS X, but it is not out yet. The jailbreak program is almost 80MB in size.

After the jailbreak, Pangu installs Cydia and optionally a Chinese app store containing cracked apps on the device. According to a developer of previous jailbreaks contains Pangu no traces of malware. The tool works by resetting the date on the device to June 2 and then doing the jailbreak, although the crack initially fails on the iPhone 5s in many cases.

It is the first time that a jailbreak has been released for iOS 7.1.1. There was already a jailbreak for iOS 7.0, but Apple has closed the leaks that the jailbreak uses in version 7.1. Apple is already testing iOS 8 and will release it as an update this fall.