TWIF generated on Thursday, 22 Feb 2024, Week 8

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.19.1 to fix some theming issues, add more translations and polish something supersecret you’ll get to find about soon. In more important news, version 1.19.0 is now marked as suggested so the update is finally sent to all the F-Droid users out there, not just our loyal fan base that have “enabled Beta”. 🎉

Another change that 1.19.0 brought was related to the default repositories. Historically, given the Guardian Project’s involvement in F-Droid, we’ve shipped their repo in-app but not enabled by default. As time passed, Guardian’s needs to host apps have not aligned with F-Droid’s FOSS policies so it was finally decided to remove their repo from the default install, meaning that new installs will not have it. If you already do, it will stay put as you wish.

Our very own @eighthave has penned a post from the future to explain in detail what’s going on and also talk about the future of the most wanted apps from that repo, Orbot and Tor Browser.

Community News

@linsui extracts some news:

While Orbot might not be easily installed by default from now on, TorServices (alpha) was just updated to 0.2.1. It does not have all the bells and whistles of Orbot, but it offers the barebones in a light app. You can enable “Use Tor” in Conversations, SOCKS in Netguard or your own favourite app proxy settings, and you are ready to go.

ZipXtract FD was updated to 4.3.2 but this version is now lacking “RAR extraction, Multipart RAR extraction, 7z compression”, since these were based on proprietary code.

@Licaon_Kter is waving flags:

Jami was updated to 20240215-01, but did you notice that “the new conversation UI is now available for everyone on Android”? Yes, devs are hard at work to make it better for the eye and faster.

Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was mentioned as downgraded in TWIF24 week 4 per the developers wishes. This week it was brought back up to date to version 2024.02.06-11-FDroid hence make sure you update and download the updated maps as well, so your next trips are better guided. The F-Droid website has yet to detail why the app is flagged with an anti-feature (the client does explain), but it’s there because: “Map download service (cdn*.organicmaps.app) is free and open source, but not user changeable. Hotel widget includes a link to kayak.com not contained in original map data”. More about Anti-Features here.

Stitch, your handy tool for picture stitching on the go, is back after being gone for 8 months. (#2894)

Newly Added Apps

4 apps were newly added

• Cb_app: Client for using CommonBooking websites - View sites that are driven by CommonsBooking and manage your bookings
• DailyAL - Full featured MyAnimeList client made with flutter
• Fossify Music Player - Open-source and Ad-free Music Player with customizable widget & sleep timer
• Logseq - A privacy-first, open-source platform for knowledge management and collaboration

Intermezzo from Licaon_Kter

As usual the next section is this huge dry wall of text listing the other updated apps. Many of you have complained that it’s a boring section, and we agree. The sections above are full of exciting (and hopefully new) information, but truth be told we can’t really follow up all the 100-200 app updates that get pushed weekly. We might use one of those apps so we follow its development, we might fix a build and thus get a spicy detail from the commit messages, but otherwise, it all might be on autoupdate and working surely, yet quietly. Each update can hold some beautiful or amazing feat that only you know about, because you care, so if it’s game-changing, or just scratches an itch, please drop by our special forum thread and let everyone else know about it. 🎁

Updated Apps

118 more apps were updated

• AVNC was updated from 2.3.0 to 2.3.1
• Activity Launcher was updated from 1.15.2 to 2.0.0
• Activity Manager was updated from 5.4.8 to 5.4.9
• AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously was updated from 1.1.18 to 1.1.20
• Al-Azan - Prayer Times was updated from 1.17.5 to 1.17.6
• Amaze was updated from 3.8.4 to 3.10
• Amethyst was updated from 0.83.12 to 0.84.3
• BLE Radar was updated from 0.22.7-beta to 0.22.8-beta
• Ball2Box was updated from 4.0.3 to 4.1.0
• Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated from 0.78.0-banglejs to 0.79.0-banglejs
• BetterCounter was updated from 4.1.0 to 4.3.0
• Bhagavad Gita was updated from 3.2 to 3.3
• Blazed Cloud - Encrypted Storage was updated from 1.3.4 to 1.3.5
• Briar was updated from 1.5.8 to 1.5.9
• Carrion was updated from 1.14 to 1.16
• Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated from 12.0 to 12.1
• Clipious was updated from 1.18.0 to 1.19.0
• Coin Collection was updated from 3.5.1 to 3.6.0
• Conversations was updated from 2.13.1+free to 2.13.3+free
• Cuscon was updated from 4.0.1.0 to 4.0.1.4
• DAVx⁵ was updated from 4.3.12.1-ose to 4.3.13-ose
• DankChat was updated from 3.9.10 to 3.9.12
• Dart Checker was updated from 0.7.4 to 0.7.5
• Deku SMS was updated from 0.39.0 to 0.40.0
• DroidRec was updated from 3.6 to 3.7
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated from 5.185.2 to 5.188.0
• Earth View for Muzei was updated from 2.1 to 2.2
• Editor was updated from 1.92 to 1.93
• Endless Sky was updated from 0.10.5-41 to 0.10.6-42
• FairEmail was updated from 1.2158 to 1.2159
• FlashDim - Dim your flashlight was updated from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2
• Flipper Mobile App was updated from 1.6.7 to 1.6.8
• Forkgram was updated from 10.6.1.0 to 10.6.4.0
• Gadgetbridge was updated from 0.78.0 to 0.79.0
• Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated from 1.23.0 to 1.24.1
• Geto was updated from 1.13 to 1.14
• Hammer [ALPHA] was updated from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
• Harmony Music was updated from 1.8.0 to 1.9.0
• Hydra was updated from 3.7.1-open to 3.7.2-open
• IITC-CE Mobile was updated from 0.37.1 to 0.37.2
• IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated from 2.10.6 to 2.10.7
• Infomaniak kDrive was updated from 4.4.4 to 4.4.5
• Intent Intercept was updated from 4.0.5 to 4.0.6
• Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated from Build99.1.0 to Build100.1.1
• Invoice Ninja was updated from 5.0.154 to 5.0.155
• Irregular Expressions was updated from 2.6.1 to 2.7.0
• Jellyfin for Android TV was updated from 0.16.4 to 0.16.5
• Jerboa for Lemmy was updated from 0.0.57 to 0.0.59
• K-9 Mail was updated from 6.715 to 6.717
• KPassNotes was updated from 1.3.0 to 1.3.1
• KUKSA Companion App was updated from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3
• Keyoxide was updated from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
• Kodi was updated from 20.3 to 20.4
• Kotatsu was updated from 6.7 to 6.7.1
• Linwood Butterfly was updated from 2.0.3-rc.0 to 2.0.3-rc.1
• LocalMonero: buy XMR privately was updated from 1.1.18 to 1.1.20
• LogFox was updated from 1.5.4 to 1.5.6
• MRepo was updated from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4
• Massive was updated from 2.18 to 2.26
• Mattermost Beta was updated from 2.12.2 to 2.13.0
• Mealient was updated from 0.4.5 to 0.4.6
• Migraine Log was updated from 0.10.5 to 0.11.1
• Mill was updated from 4.0.5 to 4.0.7
• Money Manager Ex was updated from 2024.02.08 to 2024.02.15
• Musify was updated from 7.5.0 to 7.5.1
• NextDNS Manager was updated from 4.9.2 to 4.10.5
• Nextcloud Dev was updated from 20240129 to 20240213
• Notification Dictionary was updated from 0.0.22 to 0.0.23
• Oblique Strategies was updated from 0.1.0 to 0.1.1
• OpenAthena™ for Android was updated from 0.19.8 to 0.19.9
• OpenTracks was updated from v4.11.1 to v4.11.2
• Openreads was updated from 2.4.1 to 2.5.0
• Orgzly Revived was updated from 1.8.14 to 1.8.16
• Outline Keeper was updated from 0.1.24 to 0.1.25
• PCAPdroid was updated from 1.6.9 to 1.7.0
• Peristyle was updated from 1.30_beta to 1.32_beta
• Persian Calendar was updated from 9.1.0 to 9.1.1
• PhotoChiotte was updated from 1.49 to 1.50
• PixelDroid was updated from 1.0.beta29 to 1.0.beta30
• PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from 1.2.37 to 1.2.38
• Pocket Broomball was updated from 5.1.2 to 5.1.3
• Privacy Browser was updated from 3.16 to 3.17
• Quicksy was updated from 2.13.1+free to 2.13.3+free
• Quillpad was updated from 1.4.11 to 1.4.12
• Reader for Selfoss was updated from 124010301-github to 124020451-github
• RiMusic was updated from 0.6.21 to 0.6.22
• Saber was updated from 0.19.3 to 0.20.2
• Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated from 1.0.1 to 1.1.0
• Sensor Server was updated from 5.1.0 to 5.2.0
• SiYuan was updated from 2.12.7 to 2.12.8
• SimpMusic was updated from 0.1.8 to 0.2.0
• Simple Time Tracker was updated from 1.36 to 1.37
• Souvenirs was updated from 2.8.5 to 2.8.7
• Squawker was updated from 3.7.1 to 3.7.3
• Standard Notes was updated from 3.189.4 to 3.191.0
• Suntimes Calendars was updated from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1
• Super Retro Mega Wars was updated from 0.32.3 to 0.32.4
• Swatch .beat clock was updated from v1.2.1-fdroid-metadata to v1.2.2
• Tarock Palčka was updated from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4
• Tiddloid was updated from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0
• Trail Sense was updated from 5.7.2 to 5.8.1
• Unciv was updated from 4.10.8 to 4.10.10
• Vespucci was updated from 19.3.3.0 to 19.3.4.0
• Web Opac was updated from 6.4.14 to 6.5.0
• Wulkanowy was updated from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1
• Xray was updated from 5.3.1 to 5.5.0
• aTalk was updated from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6
• baresip was updated from 59.4.1 to 59.4.3
• neutriNote CE was updated from 4.4.9g to 4.5.0
• ntodotxt was updated from 0.4.7 to 0.5.0
• openHAB Beta was updated from 3.9.3-beta to 3.10.1-beta
• ownCloud was updated from 4.2-beta.1 to 4.2.0
• phyphox was updated from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13
• pretixPRINT was updated from 2.16.3-foss to 2.17.1-foss
• pretixSCAN was updated from 2.6.3 to 2.7.0
• timeto.me was updated from 2024.01.19 to 2024.02.17
• uNote was updated from 1.5.1 to 1.6.1
• whoBIRD was updated from 1.6 to 1.7

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