This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Nov 2024, Week 45 Community News Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 132.0.0, after a two months hiatus where everyone was holding their breath, while we didn’t have time to catch our breath. Lost dependencies, home movements, angry forum posts,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 31 Oct 2024, Week 44 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.1 as suggested and to 1.21.1 still in testing. Some updates on last weeks fires: Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.3 and Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241026, as...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43 F-Droid core Just after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice and chill weekend, little did we know that things will just light up. Like Client issues after Android upgrades, users...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Oct 2024, Week 42 F-Droid core I hope this note finds you in good health. By the time this post reaches you, final F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0 went live, but not yet suggested. Did you test the alpha releases? No?...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Oct 2024, Week 41 F-Droid core Nothing new to add, just that we hope more users get a chance to test 1.21.0-alpha1, and if you did not already, do peruse the full announcement from last week. The more of you test...

I believe privacy and freedom are fundamental rights and should be available to everyone in the world. A few years ago, I’ve started translating FOSS apps on Weblate, which has evolved to me being a maintainer of many projects, including F-Droid. Now I’ve finally finished reviewing all website strings and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Oct 2024, Week 40 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.21.0-alpha1 bringing a fix for a long standing pain point: background index updating. During Android’s development, Google restricted more and more when and how often apps can do...

Back in 2010, Ciaran Gultnieks created F-Droid to bring free software to Android. It has since grown to have many contributors from around the world, millions of users, and its own legal entity with an esteemed Board of Directors. F-Droid has become its own thing bigger than any one of...