Two years ago, almost to the day, we’ve spoken about how “VPN trust requires free software” outlining the importance of reproducible builds in general, and specially when it comes to your Internet connection security. That post sparked some interest and led to improvements in the way F-Droid packages reproducible builds....

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Feb 2025, Week 9 F-Droid core Termux:GUI, A plugin for Termux to use the Android GUI from terminal applications, is finally live. Well technically it was live several times in the past but it was not set up properly. How so?...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Feb 2025, Week 8 F-Droid core F-Droid Client 1.22.0 has been live for a couple of weeks now, the gist of the changes can be read here. Did you give it a good shake on your Android distro? No? As it’s...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Feb 2025, Week 7 F-Droid core We’ve teased the new Material Design 3 UI client design update, and the feedback is as expected, from “I hate it”, through “I don’t care”, to “I like it”. This is work in progress but...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Feb 2025, Week 6 Community News From a prolific FOSS dev @woheller69 we now have another app, SherpaTTS, Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi. We’ve complained before about the FOSS voice situation, that while RHVoice got some updates, it’s still limited...

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients. As F-Droid’s user base...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Jan 2025, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.22.0 stable, but not yet ‘suggested’. If you’ve missed the quick alpha version you can read the list of changes. Current changelog since the alpha is short: automatically...

In an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and empowered community, the F-Droid Board put out a call for Community Council nominations and subsequent extension. This search yielded one nomination, that of Vishal Bakhai, aka vdbhb59 (Harry), who is an active moderator of the F-Droid forum and other channels....