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A waterfall of acronyms

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 24 Apr 2025, Week 17 Community News NLNet has been a great supporter of F-Droid and FOSS in general over the years, and we hope it can do its good work many eons ahead. Some more projects got funded this month, as...

Material Design 3

The upcoming 1.23.0 release of the F-Droid app comes with a small visual refresh: It now uses the Material Design 3 library updating our app to the latest version of how Google thinks apps should look like. This also includes going from edge to edge, also known as taking up...

Decades of git

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...

Bike-shedding is over

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 10 Apr 2025, Week 15 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.23.0-alpha0 starting the testing phase for that one feature users will actually notice, an UI refresh. This was work-in-progress for the last year thanks to the efforts of...

Forging paths

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14 Community News We were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in December 2024, so we are glad to see GMaps WV being picked up by the very prolific @woheller69. An update will...

F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2025

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for two years. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to board-nominations@f-droid.org (one email per nomination) and make...

What were you installing back in March 2015?

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Mar 2025, Week 13 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.14.0 after almost a year of missed releases. The changelog is huge, filled with bug fixes, new features and some polished ones. Of note, F-Droid patches the build to make it...

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