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Materialization of modern design

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Feb 2025, Week 7 F-Droid core We’ve teased the new Material Design 3 UI client design update, and the feedback is as expected, from “I hate it”, through “I don’t care”, to “I like it”. This is work in progress but...

Hearing your device speak

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Feb 2025, Week 6 Community News From a prolific FOSS dev @woheller69 we now have another app, SherpaTTS, Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi. We’ve complained before about the FOSS voice situation, that while RHVoice got some updates, it’s still limited...

F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant

We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients. As F-Droid’s user base...

Refresh your home-screen

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Jan 2025, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.22.0 stable, but not yet ‘suggested’. If you’ve missed the quick alpha version you can read the list of changes. Current changelog since the alpha is short: automatically...

Seeking feedback on Community Council nominations, and a call for more

In an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and empowered community, the F-Droid Board put out a call for Community Council nominations and subsequent extension. This search yielded one nomination, that of Vishal Bakhai, aka vdbhb59 (Harry), who is an active moderator of the F-Droid forum and other channels....

Federated services made easier

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 23 Jan 2025, Week 4 Community News Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.28, small fixes, yet big changes ahead. Last week we casually mentioned that Element users should test try other apps too, say like Element X or the fork...

A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025

With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey. This year has been a milestone for us, with significant strides...

Stop mulling, get Fennec

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 16 Jan 2025, Week 3 Community News Fennec F-Droid was updated to 134.0.0, and we urge users that still use Mull to switch. We’ve been announcing this for the last 3 TWIFs, we’ve added a warning in the last cycle that you’ll...

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