Apple today released iOS 7.1 publicly which introduced CarPlay, improved Touch ID and other bug fixes. In an updated support document, Apple has detailed the security changes within iOS 7.1, which credits numerous members of the jailbreak community such as the evad3rs, @i0n1c (Stefan Esser) and Filippo Bigarella (creator of Springtomize 2).
The following Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) were credited to the following notable people in the jailbreak community:
Google’s Security Team also provided numerous CVEs to Apple as well, on top of other public submissions by users.
Today’s iOS 7.1 release also patches evasi0n7, so it’s best not to update if you want to keep your untethered jailbreak.
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