Nicholas Allegra, better known as Comex, is the last hacker to provide a widely used jailbreak for Apple devices through JailbreakME 3.0 that targeted iOS 4.3 – 4.3.3. His jailbreak includes the first ever jailbreak for the iPad 2. Eventually Comex was then hired by Apple as an intern.

Now that Comex was gone in the jailbreak community, the Chronic-Dev Team is still here to step up the role in jalbreaking the upcoming iOS 5. As we near to the launching of iOS 5, many jailbreakers are wondering what the future holds. Since Apple has been planning to kill the jailbreaking in iOS 5, this leaves worry to some people especially that more and more hackers have been hired by Apple.

Since JailbreakME 3.0 was released, there are no more untethered jailbreak was developed for the iOS 4.3.4, 4.3.5 and the iOS 5 Betas. But we are rest assured that jailbreaking is still alive and well, according to the Chronic-Dev Team. In fact, they are “actively working” for untethered jailbreak in the upcoming iOS 5’s public launch.

Every Beta version of iOS 5 has also an accompanying tethered jailbreak via tools like RedSn0w and Sn0wbreeze. This enables developers to begin innovating on iOS 5 with third party widgets and tweaks. One of Chronic-Dev Team member, hacker for iOS 4.1 and 4.2.1 pod2g, told on his tweet:

While there is no official time frame for the launching of iOS 5 yet, we are still happy that the Chronic-Dev Team is doing their best for the untethered jailbreak to follow. And according to MuscleNerd, it is better to keep silent on what’s going on with the development of the team so that Apple will not have ideas on how to patch the upcoming jailbreak. As for now, I will stick to the stable 4.3.3 jailbreak before another jailbreak will come.