Dude, Where's My Archive?
Posted on May 02, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
TWIF generated on Thursday, 02 May 2024, Week 18 F-Droid core Four weeks ago in the 14-th TWIF we announced the start of 1.20 testing and the repository management improvements that it brings. Over the years, the concept of a “repository archive” kinda stayed the same. Basically, instead of serving...
F-Droid Board of Directors appointments 2024
Posted on Apr 29, 2024 by Sebastian Crane
Dear members of the F-Droid community, I am happy to make the announcement of this year’s F-Droid Board of Directors appointments. First and foremost, thank you to everyone who made a nomination, and to all the nominees for their interest in contributing to F-Droid’s governance. Juliana Sims, Peter Serwylo and...
Safety in typing, no cloud needed
Posted on Apr 25, 2024 by linsui
TWIF generated on Thursday, 25 Apr 2024, Week 17 Community News @linsui is forced to tap the sign: We are sad to read articles like the latest one from The Citizen Lab, “The not-so-silent type: Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers”, and rather baffled to see that...
Maintaining ownership
Posted on Apr 18, 2024 by paulali
TWIF generated on Thursday, 18 Apr 2024, Week 16 F-Droid core Update 1.20.0-alpha1 added “tighter integration with the unattended updates code for Android 14 and later” as last week’s TWIF said, and we’ve covered a bit about this in TWIF24 week 6 when we said: “Each app has a new...
Good weather for a new keyboard
Posted on Apr 11, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
TWIF generated on Thursday, 11 Apr 2024, Week 15 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.0-alpha1. Targets got bumped and they have their first victim, the panic button. Was that something you ever used? But it’s not all bad news, a Bluetooth crash is fixed, there’s tighter...
Favor your repository
Posted on Apr 04, 2024 by linsui
TWIF generated on Thursday, 04 Apr 2024, Week 14 F-Droid core Client development marches on in many areas, while targetsdk upgrades might be an ever constant change we have to deal with, other more fun areas are tackled also, like theming (soon more 😜) or repository management. 1.19 brought a...
Crashes, arches and flying carpets
Posted on Mar 28, 2024 by paulali
TWIF generated on Thursday, 28 Mar 2024, Week 13 F-Droid core The Debian upgrade is complete and apps are already being built on the updated infrastructure. While the website generation got speedup, facilitated by the newer tooling versions, the apps build time appears to be the same. Community News @linsui...
Bookworms in our machines
Posted on Mar 21, 2024 by Licaon_Kter
TWIF generated on Thursday, 21 Mar 2024, Week 12 F-Droid core Last week’s TWIF was rather short in entertaining app info, but with a reason. Albeit F-Droid is distro agnostic and should work just fine with any, the main infrastructure is developed around Debian given that both projects have aligned...