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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...