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F-Droid in 2025 - Strengthening Our Foundations in a Changing Mobile Landscape

2025 was a big year for F-Droid. Not only did we celebrate 15 years of securely distributing FOSS apps to users around the world, we onboarded new maintainers, board members and project collaborators, invested in infrastructure upgrades, and played an active role in independent app store and FOSS developer advocacy....

Three hundred reasons in two weeks

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 15 Jan 2026, Week 3 F-Droid core The F-Droid website has not been refreshed since January 5th due to some infrastructure issues, hence new apps and new updates were delayed to be listed. If you can read this it means we fixed...

5 years of UnifiedPush

Back in 2020, “OpenPush - A Free, Decentralized Push Messaging Framework for Android” has been announced on F-Droid at its beginning, and in 2022 the UnifiedPush team posted on F-Droid their guide entitled “UnifiedPush: a decentralized, open-source push notification protocol” that inspired a lot of developers. But did you know...

Entering our sweet sixteen

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 02 Jan 2026, Week 1 Community News Arcticons, Arcticons Black, Arcticons Day & Night and Arcticons Material You were all updated to 14.0.0. We skipped a version while fighting reproducibility bugs, but now the latest one is here with more than 14000...

A faster heart for F-Droid. Our new server is here!

Donations are a key part of what keeps F-Droid independent and reliable and our latest hardware update is a direct result of your support. Thanks to donations from our incredible community, F-Droid has replaced one of its most critical pieces of infrastructure, our core server hardware. It was overdue for...

Free time? Test some apps!

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 26 Dec 2025, Week 52 Community News AFWall+ was updated to 4.0.1. We missed a minor fixes version last year, hence this update comes after a two year pause in development. This classic app has now Material Design, new rules management, logging,...

Free your secure key

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Dec 2025, Week 51 Community News Tech Policy Press has a series of posts titled “Symposium on Digital Markets Act (DMA) Enforcement” that you might find interesting, since you read this. The latest one, “Making the Digital Markets Act Developer-Friendly”, touches...

Keeping it open (video version)

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Dec 2025, Week 50 F-Droid core We had great reach with our “F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree” post and its sequel, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading”, to raise awareness about the future of Android. But we...

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