Dear members of the F-Droid community, Due to an error on the part of the Board of Directors, the call for nominations to the F-Droid Community Council was not properly communicated on our Mastodon profile and forum. For this reason, we are extending the deadline for nominations from the 15th...

Automation is one key factor that lets the small F-Droid team provide apps to millions. The @checkupdates-bot is a new reworking of an old piece of automation in F-Droid: checkupdates. This goes through all of the existing apps, checks if they are set up for automatic updates, and if so,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Dec 2024, Week 50 Community News Fcitx5, Input method framework and engines, and its plugins: Anthy , Clipboard Filter, Hangul, Jyutping, RIME, Sayura, Unikey were updated to 0.1.0-0-g78c03d12 adding a new plugin for Thai, floating candidates window when using physical keyboard...

When F-Droid is installed, it provides a strong, trusted channel to the apps you want to install. Ideally, F-Droid comes pre-installed on your device, like with CalyxOS, LineageOS-for-microG or DivestOS. Then there is already a verified version of F-Droid in place, ready to serve you. We work to make the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Dec 2024, Week 49 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.21.1 were deemed stable enough to be marked as suggested so by now most of you might already have gotten the update. If you’ve missed past TWIF info on what’s...

Are you tired of Black Friday sales encouraging you to buy more things you don’t need? How about Cyber Monday advertisements asking you to sign up for subscriptions to services you didn’t know existed? F-Droid has no advertisements, subscriptions, or tracking. It’s just free software and a strong community focus....

Hello, The F-Droid Board’s first effort to start an F-Droid Community Council – an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and empowered community – was not successful despite an excellent initial group of members and a strong desire all around to see the effort succeed. After reflection and discussion,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 28 Nov 2024, Week 48 F-Droid core We’ve improved the repo index web page a bit this week. Now you can find the link to the client app easily on any mirror too. If you want to share F-Droid to your friends...