This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Jun 2024, Week 23 Community News Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia reader, was downgraded in September 2022 to a very old version as newer ones were depending on proprietary libraries. Last week developers asked the team to archive the app as the data...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 May 2024, Week 22 F-Droid core Back in October 2023, we’ve talked about vulnerability patching and listed some 7 apps that might have been affected. Truth is, there were not one but three separate issues, with their own CVE identifiers, that needed to be looked...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to engage in a mobile ecosystem outside of the watchful eye of the Big Tech giants and gatekeepers? A system that includes everything from operating systems, to app stores, to cloud services, messaging apps, email servers and more? A system that...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 23 May 2024, Week 21 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.20 have been live for the last 10 days. While we appreciate the praise for the new repository management improvements, we like to have more and more users willing to test the edge cases....

TWIF generated on Thursday, 16 May 2024, Week 20 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.0, and our own @grote speaks at length about the repository management overhaul in a separate post here. Community News Thore Göbel has some slides to share: I gave a talk “Introduction...

Since the early days of 2010, F-Droid is a repository of apps (not an app store). Its client app always allowed to add third-party repositories. Today, there are hundreds of repositories and we are improving how the client app is handling those: the official repository is preferred by default the...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 May 2024, Week 19 Community News SimpleX Chat was updated to 5.6.1 but only for armv7 compatible devices. That “only … compatible” sounded odd to you? Well, it’s a interesting story. First, the arm64 build failed, upstream fixed it and next version builds as we...

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...