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This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26

Community News

Mumla, Voice chat on Mumble servers, was updated to 3.6.11, adding more languages and polish. While Mumla started as a fork of the discontinued Plumble, it’s actually now in a “maintenance only” mode as the main developer can’t cater to the speed of development needed. If you can lend a hand, do join its code forge.

Nekogram X, The third-party Telegram android app, was updated to 9.5.8 after an 8 month hiatus.

Plexus, Android App Compatibility, was updated to 2.0.3. The app is now build reproducible so F-Droid hosts the developer signed package. If you’ve installed it in the past please uninstall and install the new one.

SimpleX Chat, e2e encrypted messenger without any user IDs, was updated to 5.8.1. Messaging changes touch upon message routing, servers and themes, you can read more about these in the new developer blogpost.

Termux, Terminal emulator with packages, was updated to stable 0.118.1 and beta 0.119.0-beta.1 (manually install or opt-in to Beta versions) after two years. We are glad to see new development around this very beloved app (if we go by the download graphs at least) 🤷.

Removed Apps

2 apps were removed

Just Craigslist was hit by a trademark violation, but the app was no longer developed anyway so it got Archived. (#487)

Syphon, A privacy centric Matrix client, hasn’t seen any new releases for 2 years or any commits for the last year while being affected by some high severity CVE issues. While the source repo is not archived, some users have asked for this from upstream to signal that it is no longer developed at least. Users are advised to jump ship to the other developed clients like FluffyChat, SchildiChat or the new Element X. (#3288)

Newly Added Apps

4 apps were newly added
  • Koofr Vault - Client-side, zero-knowledge encrypted storage application by Koofr
  • OpenUSOS - Unofficial USOS app, for students in Poland
  • PocketTRacker - Reliably track the scores of your straight pool games
  • KitX Mobile - KitX Project’s mobile implementation, based on Flutter

Updated Apps

137 more apps were updated

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