Big cleanup and smaller repo
Posted on Jul 18, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 18 Jul 2024, Week 29 F-Droid core F-Droid Client and Basic 1.21.0-alpha0 are live, the changelog has all the fun stuff listed better than us rewriting it again, just read it here. Xiaomi (and friends) users running non-stock Android can rejoice, unattended...
Maps, emulators, croissants and changed keys
Posted on Jul 11, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 11 Jul 2024, Week 28 Community News Cartes IGN, Discover France another way and witness the land’s evolution, is a nice mapping app for France. Even if not French, the ways you can interact with the data is something to be experienced,...
Soon to be modern
Posted on Jul 04, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 04 Jul 2024, Week 27 F-Droid core Reproducible builds are a new focus for F-Droid, we’re talking about 2 years new, versus all of our 14. And while it’s a harder path to take, about 9% of our hosted apps are signed...
225K downloads/week? Those are rookie numbers, lets update Termux!
Posted on Jun 27, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Jun 2024, Week 26 Community News Mumla, Voice chat on Mumble servers, was updated to 3.6.11, adding more languages and polish. While Mumla started as a fork of the discontinued Plumble, it’s actually now in a “maintenance only” mode as the...
Additional repos shaping the UI
Posted on Jun 20, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Jun 2024, Week 25 F-Droid core One feature of F-Droid Client since 2018 is the support of loading additional repositories from the custom partition, this is used by custom ROMs Android distributions to include their own repositories and provide updates for...
One twenty for everyone
Posted on Jun 13, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Jun 2024, Week 24 F-Droid core As a low key event last week, F-Droid Client and Basic 1.20 were marked as suggested, so everyone who can run it (Android 6 or later) should update and enjoy the new features. Since the...
Dozens of new apps
Posted on Jun 06, 2024 by
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Jun 2024, Week 23 Community News Kiwix, Offline Wikipedia reader, was downgraded in September 2022 to a very old version as newer ones were depending on proprietary libraries. Last week developers asked the team to archive the app as the data...
Want the Universe?
Posted on May 30, 2024 by
TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 May 2024, Week 22 F-Droid core Back in October 2023, we’ve talked about vulnerability patching and listed some 7 apps that might have been affected. Truth is, there were not one but three separate issues, with their own CVE identifiers, that needed to be looked...