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Bookworms in our machines

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...

Calculated releases scheduled

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....

Privacy design of f-droid.org webservers

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...

Cycles come and go

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...

Reaching targets and mixed locales

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...

Help advance mobile device user freedom: Nominate candidates by March 19 for the F-Droid board of directors

Nominations are now open for the F-Droid board of directors! The all-volunteer board serves the F-Droid community of users, developers, and contributors, working to advance the cause of mobile device user freedom. There are potentially four seats open on the board. These seats are open because the term lengths for...

One nineteen suggested to all

TWIF generated on Thursday, 22 Feb 2024, Week 8 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.19.1 to fix some theming issues, add more translations and polish something supersecret you’ll get to find about soon. In more important news, version 1.19.0 is now marked as suggested so the...

Apps availability still high

TWIF generated on Thursday, 15 Feb 2024, Week 7 Community News @theimpulson starts the tests: Aurora Store was updated to 4.4.1 and brings a plethora of improvements. It will be marked as suggested after a while to squash reported bugs in between. Among all the changes major ones are: Support...

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