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New F-Droid releases on IPFS

TWIF generated on Thursday, 23 Nov 2023, Week 47 F-Droid core Android Apps now on IPFS New app releases on F-Droid are now being pushed to IPFS too, providing an additional mirroring channel that can be managed more flexibly. If this goes smoothly, we intend to upload all releases on...

F-Droid Alphas and good news for CJK users

TWIF generated on Thursday, 16 Nov 2023, Week 46 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic and F-Droid were updated to 1.19.0-alpha1 as development continues. Note that this is still in beta so brave users need to install this manually (enable Beta updates for the app or from Client expert settings). Community News...

New language: Arabic

The F-Droid website is now also available in the Arabic language. Thanks for everyone that contributed! While the website is translated, there are still some other components that are currently in progress. Those interested in contributing to F-Droid’s contribution efforts, are encouraged to contribute via Weblate. If you happen to...

Let us compete on trustworthiness and an Arcticons special release

TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 Nov 2023, Weeks 45 & 44 F-Droid core Let us compete on trustworthiness This Thursday, 10 jurors were selected in San Francisco. Their verdict - which is expected around mid-December - could change the way Google controls apps and their distribution. This is a result...

Contributor Highlights

TWIF generated on Thursday, 26 Oct 2023 ,Week 43 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated from 1.18.0 to 1.19.0-alpha0, now with support for automatic background updates on Android 12+ as announced last week. Note that this is still in beta so brave users need to install this manually...

F-Droid Client 1.19 alpha and KDE Connect

TWIF generated on Thursday, 19 Oct 2023, Week 42 F-Droid core F-Droid Client 1.19 F-Droid Client 1.19.0-alpha is almost here. You aren’t ready for this release; please prepare :) Some of the updates in this client release include: Completely overhauled adding repositories and mirrors, both the user experience and the...

Vulnerability Patching for F-Droid apps

TWIF generated on Thursday, 12 Oct 2023, Week 41 F-Droid core Vulnerable Apps in F-Droid patched and updated for you This week we updated and patched some apps for the 0 day vulnerability in libwebp . Please update them as soon as possible: Telegram FOSS Godot Editor 3 Nekogram X...

F-Droid maintains in Debian

Free software enables more efficient ways to run large scale software. F-Droid can serve so many people with minimal resources because of this super power. Instead of each project handling development and maintenance of the whole thing, free software enables sharing development and maintenance. This is why F-Droid is built...

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