This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 14 Aug 2025, Week 33 F-Droid core After the last TWIF we pushed the latest version of F-Droid Client and Basic as suggested, so if the About screen does not say 1.23.1 you need to update now. We’ve been continuing to look...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Aug 2025, Week 32 F-Droid core Looks like the past still haunts us. We’ve covered, or better said uncovered, the cycle in more detail in the last two weekly posts. Last week we explained how “when we stop a cycle the...

In April, we published a piece outlining some of the work underway to help strengthen the F-Droid project against unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring. We shared how contributors, maintainers, and developers in the free software world are increasingly navigating takedown demands, vague or impractical regulations, and aggressive enforcement actions and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 31 Jul 2025, Week 31 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.23.1 fixing the index diff bug we’ve talked about on July 17 and July 24. Five more post release issues were tackled: Disable edge-to-edge for Android 10 and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 24 Jul 2025, Week 30 F-Droid core With the index fix behind us, we can think of the future. But a couple of users pinged us to ask “Y U don’t just run 2 dummy cycles to fix the bug then?” and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 18 Jul 2025, Week 29 F-Droid core Last week’s TWIF title was not a joke, but it became a meme two days later, on Saturday morning, when the week suddenly was upgraded to “interesting”. We reported on the removed categories backgrounds as...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Jul 2025, Week 28 F-Droid core A new Android version is out, and we got a little report about it and its interaction with F-Droid Client, and Basic. Since Android 14 Google limited how old can installable apps be and while...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Jul 2025, Week 27 F-Droid core Unattended updates spoiled us all, updates come and go, no need to ever open the app unless we want to scratch a new app itch. Between the dozen mirrors, delta index updates and our familiar...