This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 01 Aug 2024, Week 31 F-Droid core One feature that was seldom in the limelight is HTTP Basic Auth for repositories, meaning you can have your own private repo that only trusted users can access. Until the recent repository UI overhaul, when...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 25 Jul 2024, Week 30 F-Droid core Recently, we rolled out a new AntiFeature - Tethered Network Services. It’s introduced to solve a long-standing issue in the NonFreeNet AntiFeature: What does “NonFree” here mean? All these years we have marked apps relying...

下一代互联网 (NGI) 资助使 F-Droid 得以进行大量开发 - 在 NGI 通过 NLnet 拨款的支持下，F-Droid 现在能够更好地保护用户的隐私，可以对移动应用进一步改进安全增强‘可重复构建’ 并给予用户下载应用的更多选择。 NGI 的积极影响扩展到了大量自由开源软件 (FOSS) 移动应用，你可以从 F-Droid 下载它们：Organic Maps，Funkwhale 和 DAVx⁵ 只是受益于 NGI 的支持的很多应用中我个人最喜欢的几个。 然而，NGI 的前景不再明朗。此倡议可能不久将被迫消减它自己的经费，这会影响到它支持的生机勃勃的 FOSS 生态系统。在此背景下我代表 F-Droid 签署以下由 Les Petites Singularités 发起的公开信。我鼓励你进一步分享此信，由此，作为一个团结的 FOSS 社区，我们可以为 NGI 的未来发出强烈的呼吁。 欧盟必须继续资助自由软件 致欧盟委员会的公开信 从 2020 起，下一代互联网 (NGI) 计划，欧盟委员会的地平线计划的一部分，使用级联资助机制支持欧洲的自由软件（参见 NLnet 的呼吁）。今年，根据 2025 年地平线欧洲工作草案详细资助计划，我们注意到下一代互联网不再作为...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Jul 2024, Week 29 F-Droid core F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0-alpha0 are live, the changelog has all the fun stuff listed better than us rewriting it again, just read it here. Xiaomi (and friends) users running non-stock Android can rejoice, unattended...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024, Week 28 Community News Cartes IGN, Discover France another way and witness the land’s evolution, is a nice mapping app for France. Even if not French, the ways you can interact with the data is something to be experienced,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Jul 2024, Week 27 F-Droid core Reproducible builds are a new focus for F-Droid, we’re talking about 2 years new, versus all of our 14. And while it’s a harder path to take, about 9% of our hosted apps are signed...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26 Community News Mumla, Voice chat on Mumble servers, was updated to 3.6.11, adding more languages and polish. While Mumla started as a fork of the discontinued Plumble, it’s actually now in a “maintenance only” mode as the...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Jun 2024, Week 25 F-Droid core One feature of F-Droid Client since 2018 is the support of loading additional repositories from the custom partition, this is used by custom ROMs Android distributions to include their own repositories and provide updates for...