Two weeks after Relapse, 13.60 is still the PS5 firmware r/ps5homebrew asks about, as 14.xx posts creep up
Firmware 13.60 was named in 83 of the 159 r/ps5homebrew posts that gave a version between 5 and 12 October, down from 117 of 188 in the jailbreak's launch week. Posts about 14.00 and 14.10 rose fro...
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Two weeks after the PS5 Relapse jailbreak was released, firmware 13.60 is still the version people in r/ps5homebrew talk about most, but its share is falling and posts about the newer 14.xx firmware are slowly rising. We counted 568 posts in the subreddit from 5 to 12 October. 159 of them named a PS5 system software version, and 83 of those named 13.60, a little over half. In the week from 28 September to 5 October, the launch week, it was 117 of 188, or about 62%. These are posts, not people, and they say nothing about how many consoles sit on each version.
Relapse was released on 29 September. HotHardware reported that day that the exploit chain covers PS5 and PS5 Pro consoles "running on any system firmware between version 7.00 and 13.60", starting from a hole in the console's web browser. It also warned that using it can lead to account and hardware ID bans from Sony's online services. That ceiling is why 13.60 matters so much in the subreddit: it is the newest firmware the jailbreak supports.
The versions that moved
Posts naming version 14.00 or 14.10, neither of which has a public jailbreak, went from 16 to 21. Version 14.10 alone rose from 1 post to 5. One was a warning from a poster whose console went from 13.60 to 14.10 through a mandatory update in safe mode, and two asked whether a jailbreak for 14.xx is possible. Sony's system software page lists 14.10 as the current PS5 firmware and describes it only as security fixes plus performance and stability improvements. It gives no release dates. Older versions changed too: 13.42 went from 8 posts to 14, while 13.40 fell from 11 to 1 and 13.00 from 7 to 2.
How we counted
The posts come from the Arctic Shift archive of Reddit. A script read each post's title and text, found anything shaped like a firmware number and normalised it, so "13.6", "13.60.00" and "fw1360" all count as 13.60. A post counts once per version however often it repeats it, and repeats of the same title by the same author were dropped. The script skips app and tool versions, file sizes, frame times and numbers near a mention of the PS4, PS3 or Vita, since the subreddit also takes PS4 questions. We checked 183 raw matches by hand, found 8 wrong ones and added filters for them, then re-read 40 of the 83 posts counted for 13.60 and found no errors. Posts that a moderator later removed still count by their title. The week before was the jailbreak's launch week, which makes it a busy baseline: the subreddit had 490 posts then against 568 now.
Sources
- A New PS5 Jailbreak Is Here, But Think Twice If You Want To Play GTA 6 (HotHardware)
- PS5 system software update information (PlayStation)
- Arctic Shift Reddit archive: r/ps5homebrew posts, 5 to 12 October 2026 (Arctic Shift)
Image: Gaming World, data from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive