iPhone Dev team has got the initial success in jailbreaking the iOS 5 beta software on iPod Touch devices. iPhone hacker and Dev team member, MuscleNerd, has confirmed iOS 5 jailbreak on Twitter. According to him, iOS 5 jailbreak is developed with the help of GeoHot’s Limera1n exploit and tethered boot.
It’s important to note that the hackers have got the root access within 24 hours of the official announcement. Here’s the screenshot of jailbroken iPod Touch 4G -
Cydia application running on iOS 5 beta -
iOS 5 will be available in this fall, which means we will get the jailbreak (tethered at least) when iOS 5 comes out. Here’s the first screenshot of iOS 5 root access -
[...] iPhone Dev team has now released first tethered jailbreak for iOS 5 beta testers. As reported earlier, Dev team has developed Redsn0w 0.9.8b1 with the help of Limera1n and tethered boot [...]