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Client 0.33 Released

September 13, 2012 in Repository by F-Droid | No comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.33, is now available. You can download it from the home page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

Changed since 0.31:

  • Update notifications take you straight to the updates tab.
  • Various performance improvements for slow devices. (More of these to come in the next release)
  • More efficient memory usage when updating.
  • Fixed occasional random crashes caused by database locks.
  • Packages for the same app from multiple repos are merged, rather than one repo taking priority.
  • Various translation updates and minor bug fixes.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Client 0.28 Released

August 26, 2012 in News, Repository by F-Droid | 2 comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.28, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

The main changes in this release are:

  • New Categories within the client for What’s New (apps added in the last 14 days) and Recent Updates (apps updated in the last 14 days).
  • Better theming and visuals on post-Gingerbread Android versions, tablets, etc.
  • New clean-shaven icon.
  • Lots of translation updates and new languages.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Security Notice – TextSecure

August 23, 2012 in News, Security by F-Droid | 17 comments

Unfortunately, the TextSecure application is now deleted from the repository.

Previous versions of this have a serious security flaw. One feature of the software is that all SMS messages sent and received are stored in an encrypted database. However, due to an apparent oversight by the developer, all received messages are logged in plain text to the Android system log file. The end result is that rather than providing more security than the default setup, where a specific Android permission is required to access SMS message content, the messages are exposed in the log file, which is much easier to access and may even be inadvertently posted when sending debug logs to developers. Note that messages sent using end-to-end encryption (i.e. where the other party also uses TextSecure) are logged in encrypted form, so that content is NOT exposed in plain text.

The latest version of the application is 0.6.2, and the security flaw has now been fixed. However, the author has not published any source code corresponding to the binary he released of this version, and far from wishing to help anyone stuck with his previous disastrous mistake, he actually asked for the application to be removed from our repository as he wants to distribute it via Google Play only.

As such, I would recommend anyone running this application to cease to use it, and remove it.

Repository Client 0.25

January 12, 2012 in News, Repository by F-Droid | 1 comment

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.25, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

This is a minor update release, with lots of translation updates and various small user interface improvements.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Repository Client 0.24

December 5, 2011 in News, Repository by F-Droid | No comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.24, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

This release fixes a problem that caused notifications of updates to your installed applications to not be displayed.

As usual, if you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker, join us in the Forum or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Andor’s Trail

November 30, 2011 in Games, Reviews by F-Droid | 1 comment

Andor’s Trail is a classic RPG. Your brother, the Andor of the title, has disappeared, and via a series of interlinked quests your job is to find out what’s happened to him.

The action takes place on a tiled top-down map, which although not complete yet, covers a very large area with a wide variety of environments. The world is populated by various humans to help and hinder you in your quests, and the obligatory range of wild animals and mythical beasts, all of which deliver up the usual combination of gold, experience and dropped objects when killed via combat in the classic turn-based stats-driven style.

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Repository Client 0.23

November 14, 2011 in News by F-Droid | 2 comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.23, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

The main changes in this release are:

  • Categories – a filter at the top of the main screen now allows you to filter the current list by category of application.
  • New ‘Dependencies’ anti-feature – on the preferences screen you can choose to filter out applications that have dependencies on non-free software.
  • Various translation updates, and several new languages.

If you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Repository Client 0.22

May 20, 2011 in Repository by F-Droid | 1 comment

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.22, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

This release contains numerous minor fixes and user interface improvements, but the main changes since the previous release are:

  • Applications that are incompatible with your device (e.g. requiring a different Android version, or hardware you don’t have) can now be filtered from the lists.
  • Applications that require root privileges can be filtered from the lists.
  • Various translation updates.

If you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Repository Client 0.21

February 24, 2011 in Repository by F-Droid | 4 comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.21, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

The main changes since the previous release are:

  • Donate option – for applications where we have a link to a donate page, hitting ‘Donate’ from the menu on the application’s page in the client will take you straight there. You’ve been able to do this when browsing on the web site for a while, but now it’s available direct from the client too. If you’re an application developer accepting donations and we don’t have a donate link for your application yet, please let us know.
  • The application list now shows the build type for each package (APK, or version) available. This can either be ‘source’ or ‘bin’. Source means it is built automatically from the source repository and signed by the FDroid build server. It’s a guarantee that the source is actually available, and matches the binary file you’re installing. For this build type, you can also download a source tarball from the web site, which is ‘normalised’ such that simply downloading it and running ‘ant release’ should always work. Bin means it’s a binary file released by the original developer of the application and signed by them. Note that due to the signatures, switching from one type to another requires you to uninstall the old version first. There will be more detail about signatures and related issues in a forthcoming blog post here.
  • For Galaxy S devices, and possibly others, there is a major performance improvement when updating the repository index from the server.

If you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

Repository Client 0.20

February 1, 2011 in Repository by F-Droid | 2 comments

The latest release of the FDroid Repository Client, version 0.20, is now available. You can get it from the repository page or, if you already have an earlier version installed, just update.

The main changes since the previous official release are:

  • Signed repository index. Although all the applications in the repository are cryptographically signed, and also verified by an md5 sum before installation, the index itself was not previously. It is now. The client is still compatible with unsigned repositories, and will automatically upgrade to using a signed version where available.
  • Faster repository updates – the signed repository index is a JAR file, and is therefore compressed. For the main FDroid repository, this makes it a fifth the original size.
  • Fixed a crash that happened if you rotated the screen while a repository update was in progress!
  • New language – Serbian. As the application is developing rapidly, the translations may lag behind on new features for a while. If you want to help translate into your language, see here.

If you have problems or feature requests, talk to the issue tracker or visit #fdroid on FreeNode.

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