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TWIF is back

TWIF generated on Thursday, 14 Sep 2023 ,Week 37 F-Droid core news TWIF is back! After a long break, TWIF is back and it needs your input. If you have any news whatsoever that you feel might be of benefit to the wider F-Droid community, you are encouraged to post...

Reproducible builds, signing keys, and binary repos

Earlier this year, we reported about our progress concerning reproducible builds. Meanwhile, more and more apps are using this; you can find some statistics here: compared to about 20 apps in November 2022, the number of apps being built reproducibly went up by almost a factor of 10 to around...

Community-controlled Backup Ceremony

Seven core contributors and one board member met in Scotland, the birthplace of F-Droid, for the first in-person F-Droid team meeting. One of the most pressing tasks we needed to take care of was setting up a contributor-controlled backup of all of our signing keys. The requirements made it necessary...

Progressive web-app client for F-Droid

We’ve created a prototype of a progressive web app for browsing F-Droid repositories. It’s built with Flutter, which is really great for working in rapid development cycles. It also allows us to make it look and feel like a modern Android app. As a trade-off the web-app is pretty big...

How to use the F-Droid libraries, like CalyxOS

When we built the next-generation F-Droid client, we rewrote our code to fit into re-usable libraries, so other projects can make use of F-Droid technology with minimal hassle. The libraries So far, we have published three libraries. Two of them are written in Kotlin multi-platform, so they can be used...

A new F-Droid board for a new era of growth

THE INTERNET, 20 March 2023 — The global F-Droid community is pleased to announce that it has officially accepted the merge request to adopt an official governance plan, and an inaugural board of directors consisting of community-nominated members. The community has been legally established through The Commons Conservancy, a Netherlands-based...

VPN trust requires free software

VPNs have become popular and are often touted as a tool to improve privacy. While this is sometimes true, it is important to tread carefully when choosing an VPN. A good place to start is looking at which VPN providers meet the requirements for running a trustworthy VPN service. A...

New repository format for faster and smaller updates

We just released version 1.16 of the official F-Droid client app for Android which includes many radical changes under the hood as well as many bug fixes for long standing issue. Read on for more details. Growing repository size As more and more apps make their way into F-Droid, the...

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