For techies who don't like the out-of-the-box iPhone, heartbreaking news was announced by the hacker group that came out with the most popular iOS 7 jailbreak: There will not be a jailbreak for iOS 7.1 -- the most current Apple iOS.

The silver lining is that team Evad3rs said they would be back for the Apple iOS 8, though, according to Autoomobile.

Another hacker team took on the task of jailbreaking iOS 7.1, but only for certain devices. This includes iPhone 4, 4th generation iPod touch and the first generation iPad, leaving iPhone 5 and 5s users out of luck.

Another group, however, released Pangu for iOS 7.1.1, according to Ping! Zine. But there's a possible problem with that jailbreak, as well: An iOS researcher, who claimed that he had worked on what was later released as Pangu, has asserted that there will be more problems with the newer iOS.

"They are just thieves. [The jailbreakers] collected several hundred thousands of US dollars from a Chinese company to bundle their app store," researcher Stefan Esser tweeted. "The Pangu jailbreak does not only use info leak bug [sic] but several from my training. And there is [sic] basically my code linked directly to it."

And Esser said that because of his intimate knowledge of that jailbreak, he predicts upcoming issues with iOS 8.

Even worse news for Esser came with the nomination early in August of Pangu, along with Evasi0n's team Evad3rs jailbreaks, for the 2014 Pwnie Awards -- a somewhat tongue-in-cheek prize given for excellence in information security presented yearly at the Black Hat Security Conference -- according to iClarified.

Both jailbreaks were nominated for "best privilege escalation bug."

It's a fitting award title (for those who are unfamiliar with jailbreaking) since jailbreaking allows users to gain access (privilege escalation) to blocked apps and features on Apple products. Maybe Esser was consoled when neither jailbreak won this year.