F-Droid is committed to upholding privacy-by-design principles. This commitment has significant architectural implications for all of our software and systems. Here’s what it means for our web servers. At present, many websites rely on commercial content delivery network (CDN) providers. While this simplifies scaling out for website operators, it centralizes...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 07 Mar 2024, Week 10 Community News @Licaon_Kter updates over the years: LISTEN.moe, Listen to j-pop and anime music radio 24/7 ad-free, was updated to 6.0.2 after a year and a half hiatus. F-Droid’s main repository has more than 4300 apps (or about 3200 if you...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 29 Feb 2024, Week 9 F-Droid core The big F-Droid Client 1.19 feature is “unattended updates”, and we tried to explain how it works, at least from the user perspective, in TWIF24 week 6. As a one line note in the initial 1.19 release we also...

Nominations are now open for the F-Droid board of directors! The all-volunteer board serves the F-Droid community of users, developers, and contributors, working to advance the cause of mobile device user freedom. There are potentially four seats open on the board. These seats are open because the term lengths for...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 22 Feb 2024, Week 8 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.19.1 to fix some theming issues, add more translations and polish something supersecret you’ll get to find about soon. In more important news, version 1.19.0 is now marked as suggested so the...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 15 Feb 2024, Week 7 Community News @theimpulson starts the tests: Aurora Store was updated to 4.4.1 and brings a plethora of improvements. It will be marked as suggested after a while to squash reported bugs in between. Among all the changes major ones are: Support...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 08 Feb 2024, Week 6 F-Droid core Last week we talked about FOSDEM and the newer Client update. FOSDEM has ended, and we have a news post for that. So let’s focus on the Client for a bit. The big news was that 1.19.0 brings “unattended...

FOSDEM (Free and Open source Software Developers’ European Meeting) is a non-commercial, volunteer-organized meeting where almost ten thousand people come together around free and open-source software development. It is aimed at developers and anyone interested in the free and open-source software movement. It really is totally open, anyone can just...