TWIF generated on Thursday, 09 May 2024, Week 19 Community News SimpleX Chat was updated to 5.6.1 but only for armv7 compatible devices. That “only … compatible” sounded odd to you? Well, it’s a interesting story. First, the arm64 build failed, upstream fixed it and next version builds as we...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 02 May 2024, Week 18 F-Droid core Four weeks ago in the 14-th TWIF we announced the start of 1.20 testing and the repository management improvements that it brings. Over the years, the concept of a “repository archive” kinda stayed the same. Basically, instead of serving...

亲爱的 F-Droid 社区成员， 我很高兴宣布今年的 F-Droid 委员会任命。首先，感谢各位提名人选，并感谢所有提名者对促进 F-Droid 治理的兴趣。Juliana Sims、Peter Serwylo 和我本人 Sebasi Crane 当选为委员会成员，任期两年。我很荣幸被选中并期待为 F-Droid 社区服务，我新来的同僚们也同样如此： “作为一名热情的自由软件倡导者和 F-Droid 用户，我很高兴为委员会带来我在社区组织和治理方面的经验以帮助 F-Droid 项目和社区继续公平包容地成长。” - Juliana Sims “F-Droid 是自由软件生态中非常重要的一部分。 鉴于有如此之多的人们在口袋中装着强大的计算机，有一个强大的自由软件，替代随处可见的专有应用商店，围墙花园和广告软件，从未如此重要。 F-Droid 团队和社区达成的成就一直让我惊讶，并期待在委员会中服务，利用我的软件开发和计算机科学背景帮助项目成长。” - Peter Serwylo 这不仅将为委员会带来新的观点，它也会提高委员会的地理多样性。Peter 生活在澳大利亚，Juliana 在美国东部沿海，而我从英国向你问好。这意味着两个迄今为止在委员会中没有代表的国家，以及我们的第一位来自南半球的委员！考虑到 F-Droid 作为全球自由开源软件运动的一部分这尤其受欢迎。 正如原计划，Max Mehl，委员会创始成员之一，离任了。我确信我可以代表整个 F-Droid 社区对他的服务表示感谢。Max 向委员会告别： “我想要感谢 F-Droid 社区和我的委员会同僚给我这个机会为创始委员会服务。 作为从 F-Droid 初期开始的狂热用户，这个职位让经常耗时和乏味的幕后工作对我来说更加透明。 因此我对在 F-Droid...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 25 Apr 2024, Week 17 Community News @linsui is forced to tap the sign: We are sad to read articles like the latest one from The Citizen Lab, “The not-so-silent type: Vulnerabilities across keyboard apps reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers”, and rather baffled to see that...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 18 Apr 2024, Week 16 F-Droid core Update 1.20.0-alpha1 added “tighter integration with the unattended updates code for Android 14 and later” as last week’s TWIF said, and we’ve covered a bit about this in TWIF24 week 6 when we said: “Each app has a new...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 11 Apr 2024, Week 15 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.0-alpha1. Targets got bumped and they have their first victim, the panic button. Was that something you ever used? But it’s not all bad news, a Bluetooth crash is fixed, there’s tighter...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 04 Apr 2024, Week 14 F-Droid core Client development marches on in many areas, while targetsdk upgrades might be an ever constant change we have to deal with, other more fun areas are tackled also, like theming (soon more 😜) or repository management. 1.19 brought a...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 28 Mar 2024, Week 13 F-Droid core The Debian upgrade is complete and apps are already being built on the updated infrastructure. While the website generation got speedup, facilitated by the newer tooling versions, the apps build time appears to be the same. Community News @linsui...