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Forging paths

Posted on Apr 03, 2025 by paulali

This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14

Community News

We were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in December 2024, so we are glad to see GMaps WV being picked up by the very prolific @woheller69. An update will come soon.

Also in comeback news, Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was homeless for a couple of days as Github was messing with their source code repository. Fortunately the developers moved quickly and switched to their own hosted repository, based on Forgejo.

While F-Droid is hosted on the main Gitlab instance, which is open-source in itself and we are critical of its limitations and frustrating behaviors, we do get recurrent users talking to us about the baffling choice of FOSS developers that overwhelmingly choose the proprietary Github. Yes, Github brought git to the masses with its easy to use web interface and social features, but by now, surely there are plenty of FOSS choices for people to use, from self-hosting to hosted, gratis or paid.

And let’s not start the discussion about FOSS projects discussions being hosted by centralized proprietary messaging services…

Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 1.0.1, finally bumping versioning to an arbitrarily important v1. This checkpoint might not seem much, but it’s based on more than 40000 commits since the project started 5 years ago. The developers also wrote a celebratory blog post.

If you are curious about self-hosting Ente Photos, you can follow this “1 minute (1 command only!)” guide. NOTE: We’d like to warn, in general, against pasting in your terminal commands copied from the Internet. We do encourage you to check the source first, in this case, Ente’s server/quickstart.sh

In more photo hosting news, Immich was updated to 1.130.3 fixing little issues raised after the nice 1.130.0 update. And that’s not all, a newer update is building as you read this, but we’ll not spoil it today, see you next week.

@shuvashish76 rotates a tomayto… a tomahto:

Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to 3.0.2 polishing the big 3.0.0 release which brought a lot of nice features.

Newly Added Apps

7 apps were newly added
  • Kreate: A multilingual YouTube Music frontend for Android, prioritize performance
  • Neon: Scrolling text on fullscreen like boarding
  • Pixiv-MultiPlatform: Third-party Pixiv client
  • Quad9 Connect: App for Quad9 recursive DNS cybersecurity and privacy services
  • Soul Searching: Music player for Android
  • SuperX: Video downloader with browser for downloading videos from everywhere
  • TriPeaks NEUE: A simple TriPeaks game

Removed Apps

1 apps was removed
  • Bitcoin Wallet [signet], Your own Bitcoins, in your own pocket!, is taking a break until some issues are fixed in F-Droid’s publishing workflow.

Downgraded Apps

1 apps were downgraded
  • LessPass was downgraded from 9.8.5 to 9.7.3, as the update was crashing. A fixed version is building now.

Updated Apps

110 more apps were updated
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