It's been a while since the iPhone jailbreaking community saw a new jailbroken version of iOS 9, but now a possible release of an iOS 9.3 jailbreak is being rumored -- and it could happen before the start of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2016.

The newest, most commonly available full iOS jailbreak right now is still various versions of the iOS 9.2 jailbreak.

Since Apple's big update to iOS 9 in late March, bringing the firmware version to iOS 9.3, fully functional jailbreaks have been unavailable. Currently iOS 9.0.1 is the latest official full jailbreak on offer from developers like Pangu, though there is a teathered semi-jailbreak for iOS 9.3 through Windows computers.

While jailbreak teams presumably began working on iOS 9.3 immediately after the beta was purportedly jailbroken by an unknown individual, Apple added insult to injury by seeding another public update, iOS 9.3.1 to the iPhone user base shortly after iOS 9.3's public launch, to fix bugs in the previous version.

Soon after, about a week ago, news hit that Apple was already working on a beta of the next iteration, iOS 9.3.2, as N4BB reported. Then on Thursday, Apple stopped signing the firmware for iOS 9.3, cutting off the path for those who updated to iOS 9.3.1 to downgrade back if and when a fully-functioning iOS 9.3 jailbreak becomes available.

But with WWDC 2016 starting in a few short weeks, on June 13, Neurogadget is reporting murmurs from the jailbreak community of a possible iOS 9.3 jailbreak tool coming before Apple's annual showcase of what's in store for September.

Of course, the race will continue. Even if a fully working iOS 9.3 jailbreak tool is released before Apple's WWDC 2016 conference, that week we're likely to get a preview of what's expected to be called iOS 10.

If Apple releases iOS 10 to the public according to its usual annual iPhone development, hype, and release date cycle, even a fully jailbroken iOS 9.3 will be behind the times come fall.