Today, a new jailbreak dubbed "Absinthe" was released by notorious iOS hacker pod2g and The Chronic Dev Team. The jailbreak is a form of the popular Greenpois0n tool and adds support for jailbreaking the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 untethered. An untethered jailbreak means that users will not have to plug their device into a computer every time a reboot is needed.
Absinthe is currently available only for Mac OS X computers, but Windows and Linux versions are said to be coming soon. The tool supports the iPhone 4S running either iOS 5.0 or iOS 5.0.1 and the iPad 2 running iOS 5.0.1.
The website to download Absinthe is currently down (likely due to high traffic) and if you're looking for a download, try again later.
[...] the first untethered jailbreak for Apple's A5-powered devices, the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, was released for Mac OS X users, The Chronic Dev Team has released the same tool for Windows users. An [...]