Electra jailbreak for iOS 11 was launched yesterday for all iPhone and iPad compatible, it also contains a Cydia application, but this is not good news. Yesterday the creator of Cydia, saurik, announced that he is going to release new updates for his application, Cydia, and Substrate, and they will, surprise, be incompatible with the implementation in Electra.
Saurik stated that everything that is done for Cydia in Electra jailbreak and LiberiOS will not be compatible with the updates that he is going to release for his application. Basically, he says he never worked on the Electra jailbreak for iOS 11, had no input into the development of the Cydia updates available in it, and they won't work with his updates.
"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 It doesn't work on LiberiOS.”
On the other hand, the creator of the Electra jailbreak solution claims that the problems that exist for Cydia come from the fact that the packages available in it are not updated for now. He says that everything he has done so far for Cydia is good, but he admits that he made some forced changes to succeed in making the application functional on iPhone and iPad.
Electra was updated last night to version 1.0.2, because there are many problems anyway, but those with Cydia are the most important. If saurik is right and the updates for Cydia that he will provide will not be compatible with what Electra offers, then I strongly recommend you not to jailbreak yet.
"Most of the packages on the electra repo don't have patches at all. They simply are compiled for arm64 & have the necessary entitlements. (Except dpkg/apt which have a fix for system()) (reboot, su, login, sbreload and ldrestart are modified with 3 line patch). Only APT and Cydia on the electra repo have forks of saurik's work. (Dpkg has one of saurik's patches but is still from upstream) All other packages are the latest version from their respective upstream sources and are not forks of saurik's work. He clearly posted that without checking at all any of the packages on the Electra repo, neither has he even checked whether APT pinning works in Cydia before suggesting it. (Works fine for command line, but Cydia completely ignores it).”
Saurik has announced that it will release its Cydia updates "in the near future", so it could be a good few weeks before they are available to us.
