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Reaching targets and mixed locales

TWIF generated on Thursday, 29 Feb 2024, Week 9 F-Droid core The big F-Droid Client 1.19 feature is “unattended updates”, and we tried to explain how it works, at least from the user perspective, in TWIF24 week 6. As a one line note in the initial 1.19 release we also...

Help advance mobile device user freedom: Nominate candidates by March 19 for the F-Droid board of directors

Nominations are now open for the F-Droid board of directors! The all-volunteer board serves the F-Droid community of users, developers, and contributors, working to advance the cause of mobile device user freedom. There are potentially four seats open on the board. These seats are open because the term lengths for...

One nineteen suggested to all

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...

Apps availability still high

TWIF generated on Thursday, 15 Feb 2024, Week 7 Community News @theimpulson starts the tests: Aurora Store was updated to 4.4.1 and brings a plethora of improvements. It will be marked as suggested after a while to squash reported bugs in between. Among all the changes major ones are: Support...

One new, one broken, one beta, more updates

TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Feb 2024, Week 6 F-Droid core Last week we talked about FOSDEM and the newer Client update. FOSDEM has ended, and we have a news post for that. So let’s focus on the Client for a bit. The big news was that 1.19.0 brings “unattended...

At FOSDEM

FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized meeting where almost ten thousand people come together around free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open-source software movement. It really is totally open, anyone can just...

Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here

TWIF generated on Thursday, 01 Feb 2024, Week 5 F-Droid core 🎉 We announced last year that client work is underway to bring it up to the target that future Android users and devs want. In the mean time we kept teasing at every opportunity the coming of F-Droid client...

Spring cleaning, file sharing and video editing

TWIF generated on Thursday, 25 Jan 2024, Week 4 Community News Are you going to FOSDEM between 3 & 4 February 2024 in Brussels? If you do, be sure to update the FOSDEM Companion app to version 2.2.1. Maybe even search for the F-Droid Team members while you’re there. Cheers!...

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