Relatively good news
Posted on May 23, 2024 by Licaon_KterTWIF generated on Thursday, 23 May 2024, Week 21
F-Droid core
F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.20
have been live for the last 10 days. While we appreciate the praise for the new repository management improvements, we like to have more and more users willing to test the edge cases. So if you did not update already feel free to expand Version and update manually or in the top right corner touch the three dot menu and select “Allow Beta Updates”.
Community News
@linsui remotely reads some bookmarks:
aFreeRDP was updated to 3.5.1
after a 9 months hiatus, a smaller package, more features and optimisations are included.
Last week we announced the downgrade of wallabag, and this week Frigoligo, the new client for wallabag servers, is live, so you can try it!
LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader & ODF was updated to 3.26
after more than 2 years. While F-Droid has its share of text editors, there’s no true “Office Suite” built from source yet. Viewing files is fast, but as with LibreOffice Viewer editing is experimental, enough to correct a typo at best, maybe print them.
Principia, Physics-based sandbox building game, was added too, and the developers wrote a blog post to announce it.
Back in April we talked about Tailscale fixed updates, in the meantime Tailscale was updated to 1.66.3-teae73f821-g63a2bbc8e71
but now it’s a new app rebuilt from the ground up. You can read more about the improvements in the developer blog and you can peruse the changelog.
@Licaon_Kter un-mutes a call:
Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.16.0+free
and besides the usual message bubbles roundness tweaks it reworked backups, adding a long desired recurring option. Unfortunately after release, two issues came to light, first, the new backup flow might get killed by the Android system if the account has many messages (eg. millions) and, given the device speed, takes more than 10 minutes, resulting in a backup loop. And second, muted calls get un-muted when switching between apps. Both issues are fixed and will come with 2.16.2
in the next cycle.
ente Photos was updated to 0.8.95
finally bringing hosted server support in-app, so you can now touch the opening screen 7 times and enter your own self-hosted server URL. Its sister app auth was already capable since March. Note that, F-Droid still flags the app as NonFreeNet
as the app downloads assets (like ML models, release info and FAQs) from Ente’s CDN.
Green: Bitcoin Wallet was also updated to 4.0.28
after a 6 months pause while the devs fixed building issues. Note that some devices might fail to start this new version, upstream is aware and a fix is in testing.
Newly Added Apps
13 more apps were newly added
- Bura - Modern weather app with graphs and thoughtful data visualization
- ChatLaunch for WhatsApp - Start WhatsApp chats without adding numbers to contacts
- EasyLauncher - Minimal launcher - Minimal and Clutter Free Android launcher
- FitBook - Track your calorie intake - Completely offline!
- Flicky Bee - Flick and Bumble your way through the flowers
- K-19 Player - A music player for OpenSubsonic
- Lab+ for Gitlab - Your unofficial Companion for Gitlab
- MDM Agent - Mobile Device Management System for Android (a Headwind MDM server is required)
- Menu Generator - Pick your meals according to the season
- Mindfulness Meditation - Selection of audio guides for mindfulness meditation
- MonsterMusic - A Music Player with Equalizer and more
- Power Ampache 2 - Music Streaming suite for Ampache, Nextcloud Music and compatible backends
- Swiss Bitcoin Pay - 1 minute to accept Bitcoin in your business
Updated Apps
187 more apps were updated
- 37C3 Schedule was updated from
1.63.2
to1.64.0
- Aard 2 was updated from
0.56
to0.57
- AAT Another Activity Tracker was updated from
v1.25
tov1.25.2
- AF Weather Widget was updated from
2.5
to2.7
- Al-Azan - Prayer Times was updated from
1.17.8
to1.17.9
- Alovoa was updated from
1.10.1
to1.11.0
- AnkiDroid was updated from
2.17.6
to2.18.0
- AntennaPod was updated from
3.3.2
to3.4.0
- Apollo was updated from
1.4.8
to1.4.9
- Aria for Misskey was updated from
0.7.0
to0.9.1
- Asteroid’s Revenge was updated from
0.10.5
to0.10.6
- aTalk was updated from
4.0.2
to4.1.0
- auth was updated from
2.0.56
to3.0.1
- Barcode Scanner was updated from
1.22.0
to1.23.0
- Bimba was updated from
3.2.0
to3.3.0
- Binary Eye was updated from
1.63.7
to1.63.8
- Blazed Cloud - Encrypted Storage was updated from
1.3.9
to1.5.2
- Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated from
1.8.6
to1.8.7
- Bluemoon was updated from
1.0.4
to1.0.5
- BoB was updated from
1.2.2
to1.3.0
- Breezy Weather was updated from
5.2.1_freenet
to5.2.3_freenet
- Briar was updated from
1.5.10
to1.5.11
- Cams was updated from
2.2
to2.3
- Carrion was updated from
1.18
to1.19
- Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated from
2.29.0
to2.29.1
- Chrono was updated from
0.4.3
to0.5.0-beta2
- CIFS Documents Provider was updated from
2.2.1
to2.3.0
- Clima was updated from
3.2.2
to3.3.0
- Clock was updated from
2.1
to2.2
- Coffee was updated from
2.22
to2.24
- Cofi - Brew Timer was updated from
1.21.1
to1.21.5
- Copy SMS Code - OTP Helper was updated from
1.14.1
to1.15.2
- Cryptographic ID was updated from
0.5.0
to0.5.1
- Cuscon was updated from
4.0.2.5
to4.0.2.9
- DankChat was updated from
3.9.12
to3.9.13
- Databag was updated from
1.1
to1.1
- Deku SMS was updated from
0.43.0
to0.44.0
- disky - Find your biggest diskspace thieves! was updated from
1.0.2
to1.1.0
- DPC was updated from
1.4.0
to1.5.0
- droidVNC-NG was updated from
2.3.1
to2.4.0
- EasySync was updated from
1.8
to1.9
- eQuran was updated from
1.3.0
to1.4.0
- EVMap - EV chargers was updated from
1.8.2
to1.9.0
- Exodus was updated from
3.3.0
to3.3.1
- Extirpater was updated from
1.6
to1.6
- FairEmail was updated from
1.2179
to1.2182
- FeinstaubWidget was updated from
0.77
to0.78
- Flashy was updated from
2.0
to2.1
- Flexify was updated from
1.0.76
to1.0.86
- floccus bookmark sync was updated from
5.1.1
to5.1.3
- Forkyz was updated from
52
to53
- Forkyz Scanner was updated from
6
to7
- freeDictionaryApp was updated from
1.5.8
to1.6.4
- FreePaint was updated from
1.1.0
to1.2.0
- Funktrainer was updated from
1.3.1.5
to1.4.0.1
- GPN 2024 was updated from
1.59.0-GPN-Edition
to1.64.0-GPN-Edition
- Grazer Linuxtage was updated from
1.8.15-glt-Edition
to1.8.20-glt-Edition
- HalfDot for Umami was updated from
2.1.1
to2.1.2
- Helio was updated from
3.12
to3.13
- HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated from
3.12.1
to3.13.0
- i2pd was updated from
2.51.0
to2.52.0
- I2P was updated from
2.5.0
to2.5.2
- Iconeration was updated from
2024.04.00
to2024.05.01
- Imagepipe was updated from
0.67
to0.68
- ImgurViewer was updated from
2.3.7
to2.3.8
- Immich was updated from
1.102.3
to1.105.1
- INSTEAD was updated from
0.8.6
to0.9
- Insular was updated from
6.3-4f363088
to6.4-66cd8034
- Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated from
Build100.4.2
toBuild100.6.1
- jtx Board journals¬es&tasks was updated from
2.07.05.ose
to2.07.06.ose
- K-9 Mail was updated from
6.803
to6.901
- kardi notes & privacy matters was updated from
2.0.7
to2.0.9
- Kepler-App was updated from
2.1.1
to2.1.4
- Kingdomino Score was updated from
3.1.0
to3.2.2
- Kodi was updated from
21.0
to21.0
- Kotatsu was updated from
6.8.3
to7.0.1
- Kvaesitso was updated from
1.30.3
to1.30.4
- Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated from
2.9.9
to2.9.10
- Libre Memory Game was updated from
1.0.2
to1.0.5
- Librera Reader was updated from
8.9.170-fdroid
to8.9.175-fdroid
- Linwood Butterfly was updated from
2.0.3
to2.1.0
- Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated from
2.1.0
to2.1.1-rc.0
- Local GSM Location - A local cell tower based back was updated from
1.5.3
to1.5.4
- maid was updated from
1.2.6
to1.2.7
- Markor was updated from
2.11.1
to2.12.1
- Massive was updated from
2.34
to2.35
- Mattermost Beta was updated from
2.15.0
to2.16.0
- MedTimer was updated from
1.8.1
to1.8.3
- Memories: Photo Management for Nextcloud was updated from
1.11
to1.12
- mensen was updated from
1.0.4
to1.1.0
- Mercurygram was updated from
10.9.1.0
to10.10.1.2
- Mill was updated from
4.7.0
to4.10.0
- MinCal Widget was updated from
2.16.0
to2.17.0
- mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated from
1.5.8
to1.6.0
- MoasdaWiki App was updated from
3.7.1.0
to3.7.1.1
- MRepo was updated from
2.4.7
to2.4.8
- My Expenses was updated from
3.8.3
to3.8.4
- My Leaf was updated from
2.3.1
to2.3.2
- Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated from
3.7.0
to3.8.0
- Neo Store was updated from
1.0.1
to1.0.2
- NeoStumbler was updated from
1.1.3
to1.2.0
- neutriNote CE was updated from
4.5.1c
to4.5.1d
- NewPass was updated from
1.1.9
to1.1.10
- Nextcloud Cookbook was updated from
0.15.0
to0.16.0
- Nextcloud Dev was updated from
20240510
to20240519
- Notes was updated from
1.39
to1.40
- Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to
3.0.7
- Obtainium was updated from
1.1.7
to1.1.9
- Odin was updated from
3.3.2
to3.3.4
- Open Biking was updated from
1.1.0
to1.1.0
- openHAB Beta was updated from
3.12.5-beta
to3.12.6-beta
- openHAB was updated from
3.12.0
to3.13.0
- Open Surge: retro game engine was updated from
6.1.0.0-prerelease-fdroid
to6.1.0.1-fdroid
- OpenVK Legacy was updated from
1.2.240-f
to1.2.241-f
- Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated from
2024.03.31-8-FDroid
to2024.05.11-3-FDroid
- Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated from
0.92.1
to0.92.4
- Oshi Uploader was updated from
1.1.1
to1.1.2
- osm2gmaps was updated from
0.5.0
to0.5.2
- OSMBugs was updated from
1-3-6
to1-4-0
- OUI Lookup and Database was updated from
1.6.1
to1.6.2
- Pachli for Mastodon was updated from
2.4.0
to2.5.1
- Pagan Music Sequencer was updated from
1.4.2
to1.4.4
- PeerTube Live was updated from
1.1
to1.2
- Peristyle was updated from
1.43_beta
to1.45_beta
- Petals was updated from
3.21.5
to3.23.0
- Phonograph Plus was updated from
1.6.2
to1.7.0
- phyphox was updated from
1.1.13
to1.1.16
- Pie Launcher was updated from
1.19.2
to1.19.3
- PiliPalaX was updated from
1.0.20
to1.0.20
- PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from
1.2.50
to1.2.51
- Planes Android was updated from
0.4.3
to0.4.3.1
- Podcini - Podcast instrument was updated from
4.10.1
to5.4.0
- Poet Assistant was updated from
1.30.6
to1.30.7
- ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated from
5.2.40.2
to5.3.15.3
- Pulsar was updated from
1.5
to7
- Quillpad was updated from
1.4.15
to1.4.16
- Quote Unquote was updated from
4.38.0-fdroid
to4.39.0-fdroid
- Quran 16 Line - Quran Revision Helper was updated from
1.2.1
to1.2.2
- Raise To Answer was updated from
3.6.5
to3.6.6
- RE:INSTEAD was updated from
0.7
to0.9
- Rethink: DNS + Firewall + VPN was updated from
v0.5.5i
tov0.5.5j
- Ricochlime was updated from
1.4.0
to1.5.0
- RiMusic was updated from
0.6.33
to0.6.35
- Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated from
2.7
to2.9
- Saber was updated from
0.23.0
to0.23.1
- Sapio was updated from
1.3.2
to1.4.1
- SatDump was updated from
1.1.4
to1.2.0
- Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated from
2.3.2
to2.4.0
- Shiori was updated from
1.30
to1.31
- Simple Time Tracker was updated from
1.41
to1.42
- SimpleX Chat was updated from
5.7.1
to5.7.3
- sing-box was updated from
1.8.13
to1.8.14
- Souvenirs was updated from
2.8.8
to2.9.0
- SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated from
1.5
to1.7
- SshDaemon was updated from
2.1.17
to2.1.18
- Standard Notes was updated from
3.194.4
to3.194.6
- Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated from
1.2.9
to1.2.10
- Suntimes was updated from
0.15.14
to0.15.15
- Swatch .beat clock was updated from
v1.2.6
tov1.2.7
- Syncthing-Fork was updated from
1.27.6.0
to1.27.7.0
- Table Habit was updated from
1.12.2
to1.12.5
- Telegram FOSS was updated from
10.10.1
to10.12.0
- Thor was updated from
1.6.0
to1.6.1
- Threema Libre was updated from
5.2.4l
to5.3.1l
- timeto.me - Personal Productivity Tools was updated from
2024.05.01
to2024.05.15
- Tiny Weather Forecast Germany was updated from
0.62.2
to0.62.3
- TorrServe was updated from
MatriX.133.F-Droid
toMatriX.133.1.F-Droid
- Trail Sense was updated from
5.10.0
to6.0.0
- TRIfA was updated from
1.0.229
to1.0.231
- Tuner was updated from
1.55
to1.56
- Tusky was updated from
25.1
to25.2
- Tuta Mail was updated from
227.240502.0
to229.240514.1
- Unciv was updated from
4.11.10
to4.11.13
- Unofficial Golem.de Reader was updated from
1.2.8
to1.2.9
- Url forwarder was updated from
0.5.0
to0.6.0
- VCMI was updated from
1.4.5
to1.5.1
- Vibe You was updated from
3.0
to4.1
- Vinyl Music Player was updated from
1.10.3
to1.10.4
- Voyager for Lemmy was updated from
2.9.1
to2.11.0
- wger Workout Manager was updated from
1.6.4
to1.7.1
- WG Tunnel was updated from
3.4.2
to3.4.4
- words.hk 粵典 was updated from
2.1.1
to3.2.3
- Wulkanowy was updated from
2.6.4
to2.6.9
- wX was updated from
55883
to55892
- Xray was updated from
6.6.0
to6.7.0
- Xtra was updated from
2.31.2
to2.31.3
- Yubico Authenticator was updated from
6.4.0
to7.0.0
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