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Vulnerability Patching for F-Droid apps

TWIF generated on Thursday, 12 Oct 2023, Week 41 F-Droid core Vulnerable Apps in F-Droid patched and updated for you This week we updated and patched some apps for the 0 day vulnerability in libwebp . Please update them as soon as possible: Telegram FOSS Godot Editor 3 Nekogram X...

F-Droid maintains in Debian

Free software enables more efficient ways to run large scale software. F-Droid can serve so many people with minimal resources because of this super power. Instead of each project handling development and maintenance of the whole thing, free software enables sharing development and maintenance. This is why F-Droid is built...

Infrastructure-as-code migration

We just completed migrating one more key piece of our infrastructure to a completely automated setup: the “originserver”. The originserver is the holder of all of the public files for the website and the f-droid.org repository. It is also responsible for pushing out the updates to all of the primary...

Client maintenance sponsored by the Calyx Institute

The official client app is an essential piece of the F-Droid ecosystem. Therefore, the Calyx Institute as a member and benefactor of the F-Droid community offered to sponsor a maintainer position to ensure continuous maintenance of the client app independent of grants or available volunteer time. The Calyx Institute suggested...

TWIF is back

TWIF generated on Thursday, 14 Sep 2023 ,Week 37 F-Droid core news TWIF is back! After a long break, TWIF is back and it needs your input. If you have any news whatsoever that you feel might be of benefit to the wider F-Droid community, you are encouraged to post...

Reproducible builds, signing keys, and binary repos

Earlier this year, we reported about our progress concerning reproducible builds. Meanwhile, more and more apps are using this; you can find some statistics here: compared to about 20 apps in November 2022, the number of apps being built reproducibly went up by almost a factor of 10 to around...

Community-controlled Backup Ceremony

Seven core contributors and one board member met in Scotland, the birthplace of F-Droid, for the first in-person F-Droid team meeting. One of the most pressing tasks we needed to take care of was setting up a contributor-controlled backup of all of our signing keys. The requirements made it necessary...

Progressive web-app client for F-Droid

We’ve created a prototype of a progressive web app for browsing F-Droid repositories. It’s built with Flutter, which is really great for working in rapid development cycles. It also allows us to make it look and feel like a modern Android app. As a trade-off the web-app is pretty big...

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