Thread: Kindle Paperwhite 2-Voyage Software Update 5.6.5
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Old 08-11-2015, 10:51 AM   #69
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Originally Posted by mfirewire View Post
Will the jailbreak live for the jailbroken kindle paperwhite 2?
It usually does, due to the fact that it is bridged through a boot-time job which is in the /var/local/ partition.
There was that scare with fw5.6.x when Amazon started running Active Content as a non-root user, but the jailbreak was still there -- and it was updated to include a working and accessible sudo.


Nevertheless, confirmation is always good, and we have it:

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Originally Posted by juan_carlos View Post
Good news guys, i just updated my PW2 to 5.6.5, and the JB survived it, everything is working so far.
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