iPhone 2.1 Software

Apple posted a dedicated page on their website for this update. Here are some highlights with my favorites in bold (Dan’s earlier post has more details):

Features/fixes:

• Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
• Significantly better battery life for most users.
• Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes.
• Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and Exchange accounts.
• Faster installation of 3rd party applications.
• Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third party applications.
• Improved performance in text messaging.
• Faster loading and searching of contacts.
• Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display.
• Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages.
• Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts.
• Genius playlist creation.

• An application may be able to read another application’s files.
• Multiple vulnerabilities in FreeType v2.3.5.
• mDNSResponder is susceptible to DNS cache poisoning and may return forged information.
• Predictable TCP initial sequence numbers generation may lead to TCP spoofing or session hijacking.
• An unauthorized user may bypass the Passcode Lock and launch iPhone applications.
• Visiting a maliciously crafted website may lead to an unexpected application termination or arbitrary code execution.

Here’s how to install it: