In an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and empowered community, the F-Droid Board put out a call for Community Council nominations and subsequent extension. This search yielded one nomination, that of Vishal Bakhai, aka vdbhb59 (Harry), who is an active moderator of the F-Droid forum and other channels....

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 23 Jan 2025, Week 4 Community News Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.28, small fixes, yet big changes ahead. Last week we casually mentioned that Element users should test try other apps too, say like Element X or the fork...

With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey. This year has been a milestone for us, with significant strides...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 16 Jan 2025, Week 3 Community News Fennec F-Droid was updated to 134.0.0, and we urge users that still use Mull to switch. We’ve been announcing this for the last 3 TWIFs, we’ve added a warning in the last cycle that you’ll...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2 F-Droid core How is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any updates that seem stuck? Brave testers did. We mentioned last week that the new “gentle update” API might be troublesome, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 02 Jan 2025, Week 1 F-Droid core We wish you a Happy New Year! and we bring the new F-Droid and F-Droid Basic 1.22.0-alpha0, which marks the start of another dev testing cycle. What’s new? More polishing, bug fixing and pain points...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52 Community News Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27–30 Dec 2024? If so, did you install the 38C3 Schedule and the c3nav Indoor navigation apps yet? @thore proposed an F-Droid meetup...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Dec 2024, Week 51 Community News DEfO ECH Apps, Experimental fork of F-Droid to use TLS ECH with Cloudflare as the default host, was updated to 0.3 after two and a half years. If the buzzwords in the summary tickle your...