The F-Droid website is now also available in the Arabic language. Thanks for everyone that contributed! While the website is translated, there are still some other components that are currently in progress. Those interested in contributing to F-Droid’s contribution efforts, are encouraged to contribute via Weblate. If you happen to...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 Nov 2023, Weeks 45 & 44 F-Droid core Let us compete on trustworthiness This Thursday, 10 jurors were selected in San Francisco. Their verdict - which is expected around mid-December - could change the way Google controls apps and their distribution. This is a result...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 26 Oct 2023 ,Week 43 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated from 1.18.0 to 1.19.0-alpha0, now with support for automatic background updates on Android 12+ as announced last week. Note that this is still in beta so brave users need to install this manually...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 19 Oct 2023, Week 42 F-Droid core F-Droid Client 1.19 F-Droid Client 1.19.0-alpha is almost here. You aren’t ready for this release; please prepare :) Some of the updates in this client release include: Completely overhauled adding repositories and mirrors, both the user experience and the...

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...

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...

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...

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...