This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 19 Sep 2025, Week 38 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.17.1 but you should skip this update since it keeps on crashing. A fixed update is being tested right now, stay tuned! Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated...

At the beginning of summer, the European Commission held a series of “DMA 2025 compliance workshops” to let the public post questions to the “gatekeepers” as designed under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Apple App Store, Google Play, Google Maps and Android are all designated as gatekeepers by the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Sep 2025, Week 37 Community News Nine projects will receive grants within the NGI Mobifree and NGI Fediversity pilot programmes. Scroll the list, you might find one of your favorite. The EU currently has yet another public consultation (request for feedback...

When a legal takedown request arrives, whether it’s about copyright, censorship, privacy or something more vague, how a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) project responds can make all the difference. Handled well, a takedown request can be a manageable administrative step. Handled poorly, it can cause panic, disrupt infrastructure...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Sep 2025, Week 36 F-Droid core Given these past weeks events we got sidetracked into caring more about CPU architectures, web servers certificates and APK signatures. We need not lose track of our goals, and these are not short timed, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 28 Aug 2025, Week 35 F-Droid core F-Droid’s push for decentralization means not only having multiple repos, but also clients and mirrors. Since 2017 the Client has been able to use mirrors and share the load between mirrors and main server so...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Aug 2025, Week 34 Community News The Matrix ecosystem fixed some major bugs that affected servers and clients too. The CVE level issues were announced back in July but things were intentionally kept vague while developers worked hard on yet another...

When we started this project, the first question we asked ourselves was, “What laws apply to F-Droid?” It seems simple, but the answer is not always so obvious. Free and open source software (FOSS) projects are often global by nature. Our contributors and users span continents, our infrastructure is distributed,...