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Posted on May 01, 2025 by
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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Friday, 02 May 2025, Week 18
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Reproducible builds are taking over our Android FOSS world, but they might go under the radar. We push for them and guide developers of new apps to work towards this goal at inclusion time, and you often see us announce old apps switched to reproducible builds in our weekly posts.
Our UI does not yet show this information for users to clearly see it. Back at the Reproducible Builds summit 2023 I got admonished about this, as people were seeking reproducible apps and one would need to be an F-Droid contributor to decode their status.
We’ve been verifying app reproducibility status for years, but more as an internal check and not something our users can make use of. Since last week, we’ve added a link to each app details page, on the website, aptly named “Reproducibility Status”, that decodes our verification server output.
This is a first visible step, that adds this bit of information about the app: “these versions of the app were reproduced (or not) on our Verification server”. Icons are rather simple, fail (💔) or success (✔️️).
As the page says, “successful entries show builds that were reproduced based on the APK signature from the release on f-droid.org”, meaning that we are only signaling if the package can be reproduced, not if it’s setup as such today. For example, Breezy Weather is setup as reproducible, signed by the developer, and its status should always be green (build tools bugs aside 😢), but Conversations is signed by F-Droid (historically) and, while most checks are green, some past versions were not reproducible. This check is in line with how Linux distributions report reproducible builds, but F-Droid goes a step forward when using developer signed reproducible packages and this will need special handling.
There are more bits yet to be defined, setup and implemented, from client UI, index information and internal server workflow. The verification server improvements are sponsored by the contracted grants and your kind donations, that keep F-Droid going. These help us not only to put some emojis on a page but also to work with upstream developers fix their apps and push for more and more reproducible apps.
Community News
As we’ve mentioned Conversations above, it and Quicksy were updated to 2.18.2+free fixing an important crash on backup restoration and one vulnerability regarding users in channels handling on certain servers, that might allow nefarious users spoof legitimate users. While this issue was fixed in Conversations, your server admin should update too so all clients are protected. Another interesting feature is the support of ‘Service Outage Status’, which helps server admins to still be able to inform their users even in the worst case scenario.
@CodeDoctor brings us “Adonis Blue”:
Butterfly and Linwood Butterfly Nightly were updated to 2.3.0. This release brings a lot of new features and improvements. Here are the highlights:
📱 Redesigned mobile home page
📄 Add file preview to files navigator
📝 Inline property name editing
🖼️ Background improvements
✨ New image operations
🛠️ Reworked add dialog
🖥️ Binary changes (New linux arm, min Android version 6.0, Docker)
🛠️ New Tools (Barcode, Grid, Ruler)
🔒 Password protected notes
🖼️ Import SVG as text
📍 Reworked waypoints
🔒 Lock layer
⚙️ Reworked settings
🤝 Collaboration improvements
Read more here. And we reached 1300 stars!
@grote raises an alarm:
Oregon State University’s Open Source Lab provides hosting for over 500 Free and Open Source Projects from all over the world, and was the incubating place for many students that shaped the larger tech ecosystem. These days, unfortunately, it finds itself in the position to be shut down due to lack of funding. If you (or your company) can lend a hand, do read the “Future of OSL in Jeopardy” post.
OSUOSL has been a supporter of F-Droid for years, contributors and CI machines are generously hosted by them and help us bring you faster updates and help make F-Droid better.
@linsui tracks moon phases:
Weather (PFA) and Werewolf (Privacy Friendly) are back from archive and many other Privacy Friendly Apps got an update in last week!
Newly Added Apps
1 app was newly added
- Touch Torch: Control your device’s flashlight with the tip of your finger
Downgraded Apps
1 apps were downgraded
- Filester was downgraded from
3.0.0-alpha01to2.3.4
Updated Apps
112 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- Activity Launcher was updated to
2.0.3 - Amadz - Calling App was updated to
1.0.9 - Amber was updated to
3.2.8 - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.857 - ANOTHERpass was updated to
2.2.1 - ArcaneChat was updated to
1.58.1 - aShell was updated to
v0.14 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.14.1 - BetterCounter was updated to
5.0.1 - Blitz: Fischer Chess Clock was updated to
2.0.3 - Boardgame Clock (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.2 - Box, Box! was updated to
0.9.0 - Capy Reader was updated to
2025.04.1130 - CClauncher was updated to
v6.1.2 - Circuit Training (PFA) was updated to
1.2.3 - Cirrus was updated to
3.9 - Ciyue was updated to
1.11.0 - Clash Meta For Android was updated to
2.11.8.Meta - Cuscon was updated to
4.0.4.7 - DankChat was updated to
3.11.6 - DAVx⁵ was updated to
4.4.9-ose - Deku SMS was updated to
0.60.0 - Delta Chat was updated to
1.58.1 - Dice Game (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.6 - Dicer (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.7.3 - Droid Pad was updated to
2.3.0 - DSub2000 was updated to
5.6.1 - Easter Eggs was updated to
3.4.0 - Eidetic was updated to
1.4.3 - Exclave was updated to
0.14.3 - Fedilab was updated to
3.32.2 - FediPhoto-Lineage was updated to
7.5 - Finance Manager (PFA) was updated to
2.3.1 - Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to
2.1.0 - Food-Tracker (PFA) was updated to
1.2.2 - FOSSGIS 2025 Schedule was updated to
1.69.2-FOSSGIS-Edition - getgovroam was updated to
2.1.6(2669) - getgovroam was updated to
2.1.6(2669) - Goodtime - Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated to
3.0.7 - Helio was updated to
3.15 - Home Assistant was updated to
2025.4.3-minimal - Home Medkit was updated to
1.7.8 - IITC-CE Mobile was updated to
0.40.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.4.5 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.10.4 - Interval Timer (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.3.2 - Ion Launcher was updated to
y25-v2 - jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to
2.11.02.ose - Kazumi was updated to
1.6.7 - Keep Alive was updated to
1.3.2 - KeePassDroid was updated to
2.6.9.2 - Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to
3.3.0 - Knock on Ports was updated to
2.0.6 - Kreate was updated to
1.2.1-fdroid - Kvaesitso was updated to
1.35.4-fdroid - Let’s Bend was updated to
3.0.0 - Lighthouse Power Management was updated to
1.3.2 - Linkora was updated to
0.13.0 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.3.25 - litube was updated to
1.5.2 - Ludo (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
2.3.2 - Memento was updated to
2.1.1 - Memo Game (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.2 - Meshtastic was updated to
2.5.22 - Mill was updated to
6.2.0 - Mindustry was updated to
8-fdroid-148 - MorbidMeter was updated to
3.0.0 - mpv-android was updated to
2025-04-21-release - MusicSearch was updated to
1.24.1 - neutriNote CE was updated to
4.5.6a - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250423 - NextGIS Mobile was updated to
2.11.0 - Notes (PFA) was updated to
2.0.4 - Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to
2025.04.21-4-FDroid - Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to
0.95.8 - Pain Diary (PFA) was updated to
1.3.3 - Pausing Healthily (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.4.2 - Pedometer (PFA) was updated to
3.1.1 - Phocid was updated to
20250422 - PIN Mnemonic (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
2.0.5 - Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to
3.9.0 - PodAura was updated to
3.1 - Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to
8.15.1 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.5.6 - Quillpad was updated to
1.4.28 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.50.0-fdroid - Read You was updated to
0.12.1 - Reckoning Skills (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.2 - Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to
0.14.0 - Ricochlime was updated to
1.11.8 - Ruler (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.3 - Rush was updated to
3.0.0 - Schiffe versenken (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.2.4 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.10 - ShowCase was updated to
3.3 - Simple Keyboard was updated to
5.29 - Sketching (PFA) was updated to
1.1.2 - SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to
4.10 - Standard Notes was updated to
3.195.32 - Sudoku (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
3.2.4 - Tape Measure (Privacy Friendly) was updated to
1.1.2 - Tranquil Stopwatch was updated to
1.7.1 - Trigger was updated to
4.0.7 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.19.2 - Voice Audiobook Player was updated to
8.3.2 - Warpinator for Android (unofficial) was updated to
1.8.2 - WG Tunnel was updated to
3.8.3 - Whisper was updated to
3.2 - WikiReader was updated to
2.0.2 - Xed-Editor was updated to
3.0.3 - YAACC was updated to
4.3.2 - 聚在工大 was updated to
4.15.2.1
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