The Sileo Team pushed another minor update to theSileobeta preview on Saturday with new features and improvements, bringing the Cydia competitor up to version 0.7b4.
An announcement Tweetshared by the Sileo Team this morningincorporates a screenshot of the Sileo app serving push notifications to the user concerning pending package updates:
From the screenshot example and the limited information offered, it’s unclear if these pushnotificationsnotify users about updates to all installed packages or only about updates to Sileo itself. But one thing is certain: Sileo would need to refresh its sources for updates in the background to make this possible, which may have a slight (mostly negligible) impact onbatterylife.
Those alreadyjailbrokenwithElectracan find this update in the Electra Team’s default repository; although it’s not substantial enough to warrant an entirely new beta preview version.
The Sileo package manager is currently in its second beta preview. The next beta preview shouldlet the BigBoss repository serve a single adto users, a move by the Sileo Team that came in responseto backlashafter it was found that Sileo wasn’t letting BigBoss serve any ads to users. There’s no word yet on when that next beta preview might surface, but hopefully it comes sooner rather than later.
Notably, the Electra jailbreak toolnow makes Sileo one of the default package managersalongside Cydia. The Electra Team says this is a small footstep toward replacing Cydia entirely on the Electra platform. As for unc0ver users, iOS developer LaughingQuoll is expected to oversee the development ofa specialized Sileo build for the unc0ver platform.
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