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Calls and call for a meet up

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52 Community News Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27–30 Dec 2024? If so, did you install the 38C3 Schedule and the c3nav Indoor navigation apps yet? @thore proposed an F-Droid meetup...

Message in a tunnel

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Dec 2024, Week 51 Community News DEfO ECH Apps, Experimental fork of F-Droid to use TLS ECH with Cloudflare as the default host, was updated to 0.3 after two and a half years. If the buzzwords in the summary tickle your...

More time to submit Community Council nominations

Dear members of the F-Droid community, Due to an error on the part of the Board of Directors, the call for nominations to the F-Droid Community Council was not properly communicated on our Mastodon profile and forum. For this reason, we are extending the deadline for nominations from the 15th...

Security of the updates automation

Automation is one key factor that lets the small F-Droid team provide apps to millions. The @checkupdates-bot is a new reworking of an old piece of automation in F-Droid: checkupdates. This goes through all of the existing apps, checks if they are set up for automatic updates, and if so,...

Forks to the rescue

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Dec 2024, Week 50 Community News Fcitx5, Input method framework and engines, and its plugins: Anthy , Clipboard Filter, Hangul, Jyutping, RIME, Sayura, Unikey were updated to 0.1.0-0-g78c03d12 adding a new plugin for Thai, floating candidates window when using physical keyboard...

Verified first-time installs

When F-Droid is installed, it provides a strong, trusted channel to the apps you want to install. Ideally, F-Droid comes pre-installed on your device, like with CalyxOS, LineageOS-for-microG or DivestOS. Then there is already a verified version of F-Droid in place, ready to serve you. We work to make the...

Fused news read by an LLM

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 05 Dec 2024, Week 49 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.21.1 were deemed stable enough to be marked as suggested so by now most of you might already have gotten the update. If you’ve missed past TWIF info on what’s...

Giving Tuesday - December 3rd, 2024

Are you tired of Black Friday sales encouraging you to buy more things you don’t need? How about Cyber Monday advertisements asking you to sign up for subscriptions to services you didn’t know existed? F-Droid has no advertisements, subscriptions, or tracking. It’s just free software and a strong community focus....

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