Absinthe

The Greenpois0n jailbreak tool, Absinthe, has been updated to version 0.4. This tool is used to jailbreak A5 devices (iPad 2 and iPhone 4S) running on iOS 5.0.1. A brief change-log accompanies the release of this update, and is as follows:

Its only been 36 hours since the untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and iPad 2 was released through Absinthe tool for Mac. A CLI (command based tool) was released for Mac an Windows but that was a bit technical for an everyday user who is not much familiarized with commands. Windows based users were looking [...]

Yes, the windows version of Absinthe is here to jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2. Absinthe was released a few hours back and we had been waiting for the windows version of it. We are posting here a simple guide to jailbreak your device on windows. It’s a bit different from just running a tool [...]

If after running the iOS 5.0.1 jailbreak, you have discovered an empty camera roll, ‘Planetbeing’ has recently tweeted a temporary solution. The empty camera roll error is simple to fix. All you need to do is rerun the jailbreak app twice.

The wait is over, Absinthe released to untethered jailbreak iPhone 4S and iPad 2 on iOS 5.0.1. A big thanks to Pod2g for finding the exploit and to the Chronic and Dev team members as well for all the efforts and time they have put in developing Absinthe.