Decades of git
Posted on Apr 17, 2025 by
linsui
This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 17 Apr 2025, Week 16
F-Droid core
Since last week, F-Droid and F-Droid Basic are enjoying the new Material UI look. Did the new palette change your view on this catalogue of FOSS applications? Should we make the colors more pastel?
On website news, archived versions can now also be accessed via /repo paths so you can share a package link and it will keep working in the future.
Community News
kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 2.0.0-beta.1, but too early as it introduces compatibility with Tandoor server version 2, but breaks compatibility with Tandoor server version 1. We’ve demoted this version to beta and added the latest stable update. If you’ve updated already please downgrade to the stable 1.0.0 for now.
@shuvashish76 makes a quantum leap:
EtchDroid ISO to USB Writer was updated to 2.0. Two years in the making, a major rewrite with Material UI, easier to use, more localized, faster to run, easier to recover from errors, with verification after writing, but without DMG support from now on.
KOReader was updated to v2025.04, and added support for a few new e-ink Android devices like: Inkbook Focus, Inkbook Focus Plus, Meebook M6C, Obook P78D, Onyx Note Air 3C, Onyx Tab Ultra C Pro, Storytel Reader 2, New Onyx Boox devices: Note Max, Livingstone 3, Galileo 2, Palma 2. If you want to enjoy all of its power, you can read the huge user guide and the full changelog here.
Tuta Calendar and Tuta Mail were updated to 277.250409.0. The team celebrated quantum-safe encryption on World Quantum Day by offering one month for free when upgrading, until the end of April 2025. If you want to know more about how Tuta uses post quantum cryptography for email, last years post can explain it all.
We did notice that Git ate the software world (and beyond), but we missed that on April 7 it celebrated 20 years. Many pages were written these days about what makes Git great (or not), so here is a random selection: Git turns 20: A Q&A with Linus Torvalds (Github), Journey through Git’s 20-year history (Gitlab) and 20 years of Git. Still weird, still wonderful. & HackerNews thread.
In Git news continued, Forgejo, the self-hosted lightweight software forge, we’ve mentioned two weeks ago in Organic Maps news, just launched its version 11.0 which marks the start of another LTS cycle. So if you’ve been holding out, maybe it’s a great day to update.
Vishal breaks a ToS:
But first, more Forgejo news, GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 8.0.3, fixing many bugs specially for the offline cache and token fetching, which created major gaps between offline & online content.
ToS;DR, Summaries on Terms of Conditions, is a new app with a short and sweet motto: “I have read and agree to the Terms” is the biggest lie on the web, with a nice goal, to allow you to take a step forward and make sense of the messy ecosystem of web services out there.
@pastk draws the paper knife out:
Circling back to Organic Maps, while we had our share of dramas last year, we quickly fixed them, yet those might have been symptoms of bigger underlying issues in the development of this beloved maps app. Community contributors to Organic Maps have expressed serious concerns about the project’s governance, transparency and future in yesterdays “Open Letter to Organic Maps Shareholders”. We hope everything gets solved and the community can thrive!
Removed Apps
4 apps were removed
- posidon launcher: A one-page launcher with an rss feed
- Tip Calculator: Simple tip calculator that operates on pre-tax amount
- Tsacdop - Podcast Player: Enjoy podcasts with Tsacdop! An open source podcast player built with flutter.
- UserHash: Location reporting and viewing
Newly Added Apps
8 more apps were newly added
- CClauncher: Clauncher, rewritten using Compose
- Firefly III Shortcuts: Simplify transactions of FireflyIII
- FW-Wettkampf Funk-Trainer: Here you can train radio messages for the hessian Feuerwehr-Leistungsübung!
- Holidayz: Public and Regional Holidays for 100+ Countries
- JRBP Survey: Jasper Ridge ant survey navigation and data entry
- litube: A feature-rich Android WebView wrapper for YouTube
- Parcel: Track all your parcels with ease
- URnetwork: Goodbye VPN!
Updated Apps
92 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- AAAAXY was updated to
1.6.176+20250407.3794.55a60435 - AppListBackup was updated to
2.0.0 - Arcticons was updated to
12.6.0 - Arcticons Black was updated to
12.6.0 - Arcticons Day & Night was updated to
12.6.0 - Arcticons Material You was updated to
12.6.0 - Aria for Misskey was updated to
1.0.3 - Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to
0.14.0 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.12.9 - Bahn-Vorhersage was updated to
0.4.2 - baresip was updated to
64.3.1 - BinEd - Hex Editor was updated to
0.2.4 - BitBanana was updated to
0.9.4 - BLE Radar was updated to
0.29.5-beta - Calyx VPN was updated to
1.5.1 - Capy Reader was updated to
2025.04.1125 - CatShare was updated to
1.5 - Chooser was updated to
1.4.2 - Clock was updated to
2.18 - Conversations was updated to
2.18.0+free - CTU Menza was updated to
1.4.4 - DankChat was updated to
3.11.4 - Dicio assistant was updated to
3.1 - Easy Watermark was updated to
2.9.4 - Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to
25.04.0 - Exclave was updated to
0.13.15 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2272 - Faraday was updated to
1.1.9 - Fedilab was updated to
3.32.1 - Feeder was updated to
2.10.2 - Flexify was updated to
2.0.18 - Gauguin was updated to
0.38.0 - GMaps WV was updated to
3.9 - Immich was updated to
1.131.3 - Improvement Roll was updated to
1.4.0 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.10.3 - InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to
7.1.0 - Jass board was updated to
4.1.8 - Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to
0.18.7 - Joplin was updated to
3.3.5 - Kazumi was updated to
1.6.5 - KDE Connect was updated to
1.33.3 - Kotatsu was updated to
8.1.2 - Linphone - open source SIP client was updated to
6.0.3 - Linux Command Library was updated to
3.3.4 - Linwood Flow Nightly was updated to
0.4.1 - Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to
1.3.13 - Logger was updated to
3.1.0 - Ltt.rs was updated to
0.4.4 - Materialious was updated to
1.7.20 - MedTimer was updated to
1.16.9 - MTG Familiar was updated to
3.9.13 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.20.0 - Neo Store was updated to
1.0.9 - Network Survey was updated to
1.35 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20250410 - NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to
7.3.1 - OCS-NG Agent was updated to
2.7 - Open Alert Viewer was updated to
1.3.1 - openHAB Beta was updated to
3.17.6-beta - Periodical was updated to
1.91 - Phocid was updated to
20250409 - Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to
8.14.4.0 - Pomodorot was updated to
0.9.0 - Price Per Unit was updated to
1.7.0 - QRAlarm was updated to
2.5.4 - Quad9 Connect was updated to
1.1.0 - Quicksy was updated to
2.18.0+free - Quran Revision Companion was updated to
1.5.0 - Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to
1.14.1 - ReTerminal was updated to
1.1.0 - Roboyard was updated to
23 - Session was updated to
1.22.1 - ShockAlarm was updated to
0.2.8 - Simple Sudoku Game was updated to
0.10.0 - sing-box was updated to
1.11.7 - SiYuan was updated to
3.1.27 - SlimSocial for Facebook was updated to
25.04.06 - TacticMaster was updated to
1.0.4 - Taler Wallet was updated to
0.14.5 - Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to
14.6.2 - taz was updated to
1.11.0 - Todo was updated to
1.5.6 - Tranquil Stopwatch was updated to
1.5.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.16.2 - uNote | microNote was updated to
1.8.0 - Voyager for Lemmy was updated to
2.29.0 - WG Tunnel was updated to
3.8.1 - WhatSave was updated to
2.1.0 - Whisper was updated to
3.0 - Zimly S3 Backup was updated to
2.4.0 - 聚在工大 was updated to
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