This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, Week 48 F-Droid core In the process of doing all this development work, we ran mass rebuilds of the whole collection of apps, killing two birds with one stone. First, it served to test our new build automation with...

15 years ago this month, @CiaranG started “an experiment in automated building from source”. And so F-Droid began to automate building all our apps from source. Before this, apps were either built manually or the binary files were fetched from trusted developers like Mozilla. Automating the build process was a...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Nov 2025, Week 47 Community News MBCompass was updated to 1.1.11 after we missed three versions. What’s new? Many new UI improvements and fixes. @CodeDoctor brings us a point one: Butterfly was updated to 2.4.1 with the biggest set of bug...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Nov 2025, Week 46 F-Droid core Without much fanfare, remember the old CPU issues we had? Well… for the last 3 or 4 cycles we have been building apps on our new modern hardware. So stay tuned for more info, more...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Nov 2025, Week 45 Community News Jami was updated to 20251031-01. The devs are busy at work but also at posting interesting blogs. “Manifesto 2025: the freedom to communicate belongs to all of us” talks about how humanity has more tools...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, Week 44 Community News Fossify Messages update 1.5.0 from last week has been having some crashing issues with heavy conversations, tracked by the developer here. If you’ve encountered them, you are advised to uninstall, install older version 1.4.0 and...

We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in the ways that you want. The post garnered quite a lot of feedback and interest from the community and press, as...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 24 Oct 2025, Week 43 F-Droid core Our website runs on a pretty standard software stack, all from Debian as expected. Yet we are not rewriting it every 7 months in a new shiny framework, but we aim for simplicity, maintainability and...