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Posted on Sep 12, 2024 by
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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Sep 2024, Week 37
Community News
Arx Libertatis, An improved, cross-platform and open source engine for Arx Fatalis, a 2002 first-person role-playing game / dungeon crawler / immersive sim was just added, bringing another cult classic to the Android screen. You’ll need the Demo data files just to test, or use the game files from your old CDs or fresh off a digital game service. You can follow the instructions in the Wiki to setup the game.
Blocker was updated to 2.0.4497-fdroid, small note, be aware that the included rules might be missing. The next update will fix them. Upstream issue
Briar was updated to 1.5.13, a small polish after last months UI update to Material Design 3. Briar is a peer-to-peer messaging app that does not depend on centralized servers, and it routes messages via the Tor network. This can be a pain for mobile devices as they can go online and offline as the geography dictates (or your OEMs battery optimizations) hence messages can be delayed. But did you know you can pair Briar with Briar Mailbox? Announced last year and in F-Droid since April, Mailbox acts as your own private server that you can setup on a spare Android device that sits comfortable always online and keeps your messages ready to be delivered to you or to your contacts. Linking your account to Mailbox is as easy as scanning a QR code.
Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.20, as the Element team gave F-Droid the ok to build one month later than their release. It’s an important update as it adds support for “Authenticated media”, about which you can read more here. Unfortunately the armv7 version hit some memory limits so it will be rebuilt next. SchildiChat users are already covered as their app was updated a few weeks ago and FluffyChat users might get the update by the time they read this TWIF. Element X is still work-in-progress, as newer versions fail to build reproducible, we are communicating with the Element team to bring it up to date as soon as possible.
mpvKt: MPV based media player, A media player based on the popular commandline media player mpv, was just added, it’s based on mpv-android and tries to offer you the power of mpv in a nicer UI that’s easier to use and handle. Will it replace your old player? Do test and tell us!
Chaldea was updated to 2.5.14 and kardi notes | privacy matters to 2.1.1, but we’ll have to ask you to skip these updates as they are broken, being the victims of an aggressive scanning issue.
What scanner issue? Last week we added a new check to the scanner which was intended to catch non-deterministic builds. When a package manager file, e.g. pubspec.yaml, is found without a lock file aside, the scanner throws an error or deletes the file, when scandelete is used. This feature was not tested on enough app source code bases and, when deployed for hundreds of apps a cycle needs to build, it caused, besides delayed updates, many false positives and even made some builds (as pointed above) produce broken packages. We appologize for the mess. This issue has been fixed and failed packages have been rebuilt.
Removed Apps
1 app were removed
Video Transcoder, Video transcoding between common formats, was getting long in the tooth, no longer being developed and based on a 6 year old FFmpeg version that has its share of known vulnerabilities. But it’s not all bad news as at least Bunny Media Editor and Open Video Editor can cover your video editing tasks and, if needed, FFShare will let you tweak that final encoding.
Newly Added Apps
8 more apps were newly added
- Cavity: Wine cellar manager for Android
- Fucks Given: Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time (No, the screen is not cursing at you, have a read and a laugh 😏)
- Journalize: A fast to use journaling app
- Linkora: the only link utility app you need for Android
- OGN AR Viewer: Experimental augmented reality client to the Open Glider Network (OGN)
- Recording Studio Lite: Audio recorder
- Riichi Mahjong Calculator: Riichi Mahjong Calculator, featuring hand efficiency calculation, and more
- Valentin’s PowerTools #016 - Tomato Potato Clock: Distraction-free pomodoro timer
Updated Apps
82 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- AAAAXY was updated to
1.5.190+20240826.3509.227d4212 - Amber was updated to
1.3.6 - Amethyst was updated to
0.90.4 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.11.1 - Auxio was updated to
3.5.3 - Barcode Buddy was updated to
0.4.1 - bilimiao was updated to
2.3.9 - BitBanana was updated to
0.8.6 - Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
10.16 - Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to
10.16 - Capy Reader was updated to
2024.09.1039-dev - Cheogram was updated to
2.15.3-4+free - ClashMetaForAndroid was updated to
2.10.3.Meta - Click Switch was updated to
8.7.6 - Compass was updated to
1.14.3 - Dagger: Dota 2 Stats was updated to
1.3.8 - Delta Icon Pack was updated to
1.9.5 - Dokuwiki Android was updated to
v0.41 - eduVPN was updated to
3.3.2 - EinkBro was updated to
11.15.0 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2227 - FREE Browser was updated to
3.0 - freeDictionaryApp was updated to
1.7.0 - Fridgey was updated to
1.10 - Gallery was updated to
3.0.0 - Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to
1.30.0 - GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to
0.2.6 - Gramophone was updated to
1.0.9 - Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
4.0.33 - HK Transport was updated to
1.0.6 - InnerTune was updated to
0.5.9 - Kanji Dojo was updated to
2.1.0 - Lab+ for Gitlab was updated to
1.5.0 - Lightning Address to Invoice was updated to
1.4.0 - Linux Command Library was updated to
3.2.6 - Lyrion was updated to
0.8.0 - MediLog was updated to
3.0.0 - Meshtastic was updated to
2.4.4 - MIFARE Classic Tool was updated to
4.2.3 - MoeMemos was updated to
0.8.2 - monocles chat was updated to
1.7.11 - MonsterMusic was updated to
0.1.27 - MuPDF mini was updated to
1.24.9a - MuPDF viewer was updated to
1.24.9a - NanoLedger was updated to
0.4.5 - NetGuard was updated to
2.330 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.3d - NewsBlur was updated to
13.3.0 - Next Player was updated to
0.12.3 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20240831 - NOVA Video Player was updated to
6.2.95 - Offi was updated to
13.0.3 - Oinkoin was updated to
1.0.67 - Open Surge: retro game engine was updated to
6.1.2.1-fdroid - openHAB was updated to
3.16.2 - Pachli for Mastodon was updated to
2.8.0 - Peristyle was updated to
1.53_beta - Permission Manager X was updated to
v1.27-fd - PixelDroid was updated to
1.0.beta36 - PocketTRacker was updated to
2.1.0 - Presence Publisher was updated to
2.6.1 - Quick Calculation was updated to
1.3 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.43.1-fdroid - Readrops was updated to
2.0-beta02 - Satunes was updated to
2.2.1 - Sayboard was updated to
v4.2.1 - SiYuan was updated to
3.1.4 - Smart EggTimer was updated to
3.0 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.13.0 - Thumb-Key was updated to
3.4.5 - Tinc Mesh VPN was updated to
0.40 - Traccar Client was updated to
7.7 - Trackbook - Movement Recorder was updated to
2.2.3 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.14.1 - Unchained was updated to
1.3.1 - Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to
0.39.4 - UP-Example was updated to
1.5.5 - Varengold activeTAN was updated to
1.0.13 - Wikipedia was updated to
r/2.7.50498-r-2024-08-19 - Xtra was updated to
2.34.0 - YAM Launcher was updated to
1.2 - µLauncher was updated to
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