This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 24 Jul 2025, Week 30 F-Droid core With the index fix behind us, we can think of the future. But a couple of users pinged us to ask “Y U don’t just run 2 dummy cycles to fix the bug then?” and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 18 Jul 2025, Week 29 F-Droid core Last week’s TWIF title was not a joke, but it became a meme two days later, on Saturday morning, when the week suddenly was upgraded to “interesting”. We reported on the removed categories backgrounds as...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Jul 2025, Week 28 F-Droid core A new Android version is out, and we got a little report about it and its interaction with F-Droid Client, and Basic. Since Android 14 Google limited how old can installable apps be and while...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Jul 2025, Week 27 F-Droid core Unattended updates spoiled us all, updates come and go, no need to ever open the app unless we want to scratch a new app itch. Between the dozen mirrors, delta index updates and our familiar...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Jun 2025, Week 26 F-Droid core It comes a moment in the dev life when one needs to take the risk and deem an app stable enough for everyone. That time came this week for 1.23.0, and by now everyone either...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Jun 2025, Week 25 Community News ArcaneChat was updated to 1.58.5 and looks like the Delta Chat ecosystem got a surge of users in the last month. @Poussinou crowdfunds hard: Framasoft, the makers of PeerTube, just finished a successful fundraiser to...

The F-Droid Board of Directors is pleased to announce our endorsement of the United Nations Open Source Principles. These principles were introduced by Open Source United, an interagency consortium of the United Nations, and were developed in partnership with a wide set of stakeholders across the FOSS (Free and Open...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Jun 2025, Week 24 Community News Bimba was updated to 3.10.0-alpha but this was an unstable version that accidentally ended up pushed as recommended. You might encounter crashes and regressions so we ask you to skip this version (upper right menu,...