Rewrite it in FOSS
Posted on Feb 20, 2025 by
Licaon_Kter
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 not yet “suggested” only users that manually update or opt-in into Betas got it already, so feel free to do that and ping us if we need to fix any last minute thing.
Community News
Are you around Valencia, Spain on Feb 28? Would you like to mess with Linux, ad blocking, free apps, federated networks? There’s a workshop for you at Las Naves, more details here. And if you stay a bit longer you can start to code your own game in Godot in the next hours.
(/PS: When ready, feel free to add it to F-Droid and join the other dozen Godot games)
ArcaneChat and Delta Chat were updated to 1.54.0. If you want to dig deeper under their skin to see what makes them tick, you can read about the RIIR (rewrite it in Rust) adventure in the new “From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust “core” library” post.
Emacs was updated to 30.0.93, with dependencies required to render SVG and other raster and vector image formats, initiate TLS connections, shape Indic and Arabic text, and load tree-sitter grammar libraries. The description has also been revised hopefully to create less confusion.
Removed Apps
2 apps were removed
- Freenet mobile: Access Freenet from the palm of your hand
- Icicle for Freenet: Connect to your Freenet node
Newly Added Apps
9 apps were newly added
- < polycule >: A geeky and efficient [matrix] client for power users
- CLT 2025 Schedule: Conference schedule for the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (CLT)
- MarketMonk: Track stocks in style!
- MBCompass: Simple and efficient compass
- Mempal: A Bitcoin mempool monitoring and notification app for Android
- Nov Open Reader: Simple application to read content of Novopen insulin pens using NFC
- NowiPass: A password manager where you are the only one who has access to your passwords
- QED: Unofficial frontend for the web services of the QED e.V.
- traced it: Quick notes with time & amounts
Downgraded Apps
1 app was downgraded
- LibreSudoku was downgraded from
2.0.1to1.5.0, pending some upstream changes.
Updated Apps
90 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- 8-Bit Wonders was updated to
0.8.6a - AndBible: Bible Study was updated to
5.0.846 - ANOTHERpass was updated to
2.1.1 - APatch was updated to
11039 - Apollo was updated to
1.6.1 - aTalk was updated to
4.2.0 - baresip was updated to
63.3.0 - baresip+ was updated to
50.3.0 - Better Schedule (Bakaláři) was updated to
2.0-rc5 - Bunny Media Editor was updated to
5.0 - CaptureSposed was updated to
1.0.6 - Clash Meta For Android was updated to
2.11.6.Meta - Custom Uploader was updated to
1.4.1 - DigiPaws - Digital Wellbeing and App Blocker was updated to
1.9-alpha-lite - Drawpile was updated to
2.2.2-beta.5 - droidVNC-NG was updated to
2.9.3 - Easy Diary was updated to
1.4.327.202502140 - Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to
0.9.97 - Everyday Tasks was updated to
1.7.4 - FakeTraveler was updated to
1.9.2 - FitBook was updated to
1.0.103 - Flexify was updated to
2.0.5 - Foto Timer was updated to
1.3.0 - Grit was updated to
1.6.0 - i2pd was updated to
2.56.0 - ICSx⁵ was updated to
2.2.7 - Immich was updated to
1.126.1 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.3.3 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.8.1 - Jami was updated to
20250207-03 - Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered was updated to
2.0.1 - Kazumi was updated to
1.5.6 - Key Mapper: Unleash your keys! was updated to
2.8.0 - KitchenOwl was updated to
0.6.10 - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.1.10 - Mancala was updated to
1.1 - mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to
1.7.1 - monocles chat was updated to
2.0.5+free - Nextcloud was updated to
3.31.0 RC2 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250213 - Nextcloud Tables was updated to
2.0.5 - NFCMessageBoard was updated to
4.0 - Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to
3.0.31 - Oinkoin was updated to
1.0.84 - Openreads was updated to
2.9.0 - OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to
v4.17.8irreproducible - OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to
v4.17.8 - OpenVPN for Android was updated to
0.7.55 - ownCloud was updated to
4.5.0-beta.1 - Persian Calendar was updated to
9.7.0 - Petals was updated to
3.35.4 - Pocket Broomball was updated to
6.1.0 - Polaris was updated to
0.10.2 - Power Ampache 2 was updated to
1.01-77-fdroid - ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to
5.8.58.2 - qBitController was updated to
1.1.1 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.5.1 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.48.2-fdroid - Reader for Selfoss was updated to
125020411-github - Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to
0.12.8 - Roboyard was updated to
17 - SchildiChat Next was updated to
0.8.0-ex_25_2_0 - SDAI FOSS was updated to
0.6.7 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.8 - Seamless was updated to
1.4 - SherpaTTS was updated to
1.4 - ShockAlarm was updated to
0.0.16 - sing-box was updated to
1.11.3 - SiYuan was updated to
3.1.22 - SkyTube was updated to
2.994 - SkyTube Legacy was updated to
2.994 - sms2call was updated to
1.0.11 - Snapdrop & PairDrop for Android was updated to
2.3.1 - Tarnhelm was updated to
1.7.1 - Thumb-Key was updated to
4.0.19 - Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to
4.2.3 - Trigger was updated to
4.0.5 - Tuta Calendar was updated to
267.250206.0 - Tuta Mail was updated to
267.250206.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.15.11 - Vacation Days was updated to
11.0 - venera was updated to
1.2.5 - VES - Image and Photo Compare was updated to
2.2.9 - Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to
2.0.0 - Whisper was updated to
2.2 - Windscribe was updated to
3.81 - XiVPN was updated to
1.3.0 - Xray was updated to
9.1.0 - Zimly S3 Backup was updated to
2.1.0 - Zulip was updated to
27.233
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