TWIF generated on Thursday, 11 Apr 2024, Week 15 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.20.0-alpha1. Targets got bumped and they have their first victim, the panic button. Was that something you ever used? But it’s not all bad news, a Bluetooth crash is fixed, there’s tighter...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 04 Apr 2024, Week 14 F-Droid core Client development marches on in many areas, while targetsdk upgrades might be an ever constant change we have to deal with, other more fun areas are tackled also, like theming (soon more 😜) or repository management. 1.19 brought a...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 28 Mar 2024, Week 13 F-Droid core The Debian upgrade is complete and apps are already being built on the updated infrastructure. While the website generation got speedup, facilitated by the newer tooling versions, the apps build time appears to be the same. Community News @linsui...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 21 Mar 2024, Week 12 F-Droid core Last week’s TWIF was rather short in entertaining app info, but with a reason. Albeit F-Droid is distro agnostic and should work just fine with any, the main infrastructure is developed around Debian given that both projects have aligned...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 14 Mar 2024, Week 11 Community News @linsui schedules some releases: K-9 Mail was updated to 6.800 and deemed stable, so everyone will get the new version. Congrats to the team! The app description on the website is missing, but a fix is in the works....

F-Droid is committed to upholding privacy-by-design principles. This commitment has significant architectural implications for all of our software and systems. Here’s what it means for our web servers. At present, many websites rely on commercial content delivery network (CDN) providers. While this simplifies scaling out for website operators, it centralizes...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 07 Mar 2024, Week 10 Community News @Licaon_Kter updates over the years: LISTEN.moe, Listen to j-pop and anime music radio 24/7 ad-free, was updated to 6.0.2 after a year and a half hiatus. F-Droid’s main repository has more than 4300 apps (or about 3200 if you...

TWIF generated on Thursday, 29 Feb 2024, Week 9 F-Droid core The big F-Droid Client 1.19 feature is “unattended updates”, and we tried to explain how it works, at least from the user perspective, in TWIF24 week 6. As a one line note in the initial 1.19 release we also...