This Week in F-Droid

TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 May 2025, Week 22

F-Droid core

F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.23.0 entering the stable phase. We’ve been teasing the new fresh coat of paint in February, announced it in April with an alpha build, but now it got another round of polish on top.

What’s new:

• Updated app screenshots for Material 3 (Thanks Thore!) (Old screenshots are still hanging around subject to a swift cleaning)
• Last material design adaptions: rounder cards
• Don’t add official mirror as user mirror (Thanks Thore!)
• Fix user mirror UI bug (Thanks oldherl!)
• Respect preferred repo for counting apps in categories
• Fixed crash on started (Thanks Matthew!)

As usual we ask brave users to test this release and offer feedback How to install this release? In F-Droid Client, on its own page, either scroll down, expand Versions and install the latest, or in the upper right menu choose “Allow Beta updates”.

Community News

Aurora Store was updated to 4.7.1, as unstable, but the developer asked us to disable it, as it was crashing. Next version should fix it, so wait for that.

Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.05.4 but only the old architecture armv7. The other three fail to verify reproducible caused by a tooling issue. We are investigating a workaround and we’ll keep you posted.

@shuvashish76 dominates the news game:

Immich was updated to 1.133.0 and its users and host-ers need to read the release notes about the breaking changes. This is the hottest release yet for this summer, with more than 200 commits since the last version. This version brings you a new database extension, an even more optimized and faster timeline, more unified components on the web, some cool new features that have been requested for a long time, and many bug fixes and improvements.

Magisk was updated to 29.0 bringing its Rust composition up to 40%. Our build appears to have some issues, so better to avoid an update for now.

As the Mozilla Pocket service will be closed soon, the open web solution rise to the challenge. In no particular order:

• Wallabag devs published two posts, about the Pocket history and about how to migrate. F-Droid includes the Wallbag client, the unofficial Flutter based Frigoligo and the e-book reader KOreader, which has a plugin for Wallabag by default.
• Readeck devs prepared a post too. Readeck App, an unofficial client, was just updated to 0.4.0.
• Shaarli can be hosted and we have the Shaarlier client ready.
• Shiori server is written in Go, if you ask. And the Shiori unofficial client is written in Java, if it matters.
• Linkwarden server is at version 2.10 and its unofficial companion app LinkDroid for Linkwarden has all the modern features.
• If you host NextCloud you can use Nextcloud Bookmarks.
• If you don’t care about the server openness, maybe you’ll use xBrowserSync or PinDroid.
• You can go server-less, as the in-your-pocket device is better, right? For that you can use floccus bookmark sync, Linkora or LinkHub.
• …or just use one of our 3000+ ToDo and Notes apps and call it a day.

The Prav devs have answered some questions from the FOSS United team, that promotes and strengthens the Free and Open Source Software ecosystem in India.

Newly Added Apps

2 apps were newly added

• Dhizuku: A tool that can share Device Owner permissions to other application
• NextTraceroute: NextTraceroute is a root-free traceroute application using the NextTrace API

Updated Apps

75 more apps were updated

(expand for the full list)

• Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.14.2
• baresip was updated to 66.1.6
• baresip+ was updated to 53.0.4
• Butterfly was updated to 2.3.1
• CClauncher was updated to v9.2.2
• CEToolbox was updated to 1.6.1
• Chaldea was updated to 2.5.19
• Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.11.Meta
• Com-Phone Story Maker was updated to 1.7.8
• ConnectBot was updated to 1.9.12-oss
• Custom Uploader was updated to 2.0.0
• DailyAL was updated to 2025.5.1
• DNSNet was updated to 1.2.6
• Droid Pad was updated to 2.7.0
• droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.11.0
• Ente Auth was updated to 4.3.8
• Ente Photos - Encrypted photo storage was updated to 1.0.10
• Exif Thumbnail Adder was updated to 1.0.1
• Floating Mute was updated to 3.0.0
• Flutter McSweepy was updated to 1.1.0
• Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 2.3.2
• Fossify Music Player was updated to 1.1.0
• Fossify Voice Recorder was updated to 1.2.0
• GCompris was updated to 25.1
• Gramophone was updated to 1.0.17
• Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 2.2.3-p6
• Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.29
• Human Benchmark was updated to 1.0.9
• Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.11.3
• Initiative Tracker was updated to 0.2.0
• Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.173
• J-K Bike - Mechanical Disaster Prevention was updated to 2.1.1
• Kazumi was updated to 1.7.2
• Kreate was updated to 1.3.4-fdroid
• LANShield was updated to 0.93
• Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.3.1
• Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.4.21
• LMd - Le Monde diplomatique DE was updated to 2.3.1
• Logseq was updated to 0.10.11
• MinCal Widget was updated to 2.18.4
• MuPDF mini was updated to 1.26.1a
• MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.26.1a
• NATINFo Flutter was updated to 0.3.4
• Neon was updated to 0.5
• Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250522
• Nov Open Reader was updated to 1.2.0
• NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.4.3
• Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2025.05.20-5-FDroid
• Password Store was updated to 1.14.4
• Phocid was updated to 20250521
• PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.63
• Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.5
• PipePipe was updated to 4.4.0
• Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.17.1
• Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.31.3
• ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.11.29.1
• Quote Unquote was updated to 4.51.0-fdroid
• Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.14
• Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.9
• Rush - Lyrics App was updated to 3.2.1
• Session was updated to 1.23.2
• SiYuan was updated to 3.1.30
• SmartScan was updated to 1.1.0
• TacticMaster was updated to 1.0.12
• taz was updated to 1.11.1
• Threema Libre was updated to 6.0.1l
• TourCount was updated to 3.6.5
• Tremotesf was updated to 2.12.0
• Unciv was updated to 4.16.10
• Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.35.0
• Wiki Fronted was updated to r/2.7.50532-r-2025-05-20
• Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50532-r-2025-05-20
• WikiReader was updated to 2.2.0
• Working Time Account was updated to 2.11.000
• Zulip was updated to 27.235

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