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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2 F-Droid core How is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any updates that seem stuck? Brave testers did. We mentioned last week that the new “gentle update” API might be troublesome, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 02 Jan 2025, Week 1 F-Droid core We wish you a Happy New Year! and we bring the new F-Droid and F-Droid Basic 1.22.0-alpha0, which marks the start of another dev testing cycle. What’s new? More polishing, bug fixing and pain points...