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F-Droid Board of Directors nominations 2025 (2025/03/30 00:00)
Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for two years. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to board-nominations@f-droid.org (one email per nomination) and make sure that the nominee is copied in. We will confirm receipt of each nomination. To ensure consideration, please send nominations no later than the 14th of April, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). Who should be nominated? We seek to be an enthusiastic, expert and diverse board that can support the F-Droid community as effectively as possible. We welcome nominations of anyone committed to furthering the freedoms of computer users, particularly with regard to mobile devices. What should I include in a nomination? To best evaluate the nominations, we would like to see a description of why you think the candidate would make an excellent board member. Consider including some or all of the following: links to relevant social media profiles and personal websites examples of previous contributions to F-Droid or other Free and Open Source software particular skills or qualifications that could be useful How will the new directors be selected? The nominations will be discussed by the current Board of Directors in a private meeting. The current directors will vote on each nominee. Existing directors are permitted to run for an additional term, but voting is weighted in favour of new candidates. For more information on the process, see our statutes. What is expected of directors? Directors are expected to attend a online meeting by video conference at least once a month, and to participate in discussions via email. Directors are also required to respond promptly if a vote is called. English is the working language of the Board of Directors, so an adequate English ability is required. We would be more than happy to make reasonable adjustments, so please don’t hesitate to get in contact if you have any questions about these expectations. When will the new appointments be announced? Our intention is to decide on the appointments as early as the 17th of April and announce the selected candidates later the same week. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
What were you installing back in March 2015? (2025/03/27 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Mar 2025, Week 13 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.14.0 after almost a year of missed releases. The changelog is huge, filled with bug fixes, new features and some polished ones. Of note, F-Droid patches the build to make it compatible with older servers down to Windows 7. Delta Chat and ArcaneChat were updated to 1.56.0 adding the often requested messaging editing, deletion and saving. Fossify Calculator, Simple and open-source calculator for quick and easy calculations comes as a replacement for Fossify Calculator, now archived. Yes, same name but different app ID, so if you installed it before March 23, please uninstall the old app and install this new one. Jami was updated to 20250319-01 getting it ready for the crowds of people migrating from the now closed Skype. Or at least that’s what the developers are preparing for, as mentioned in their latest post. RidgeScout was updated to 1.4 and comes with an overhauled UI. The developer wanted reproducible builds hence if you had the app installed you’d need to uninstall it and install this new version. @shuvashish76 finally opens a book: Book’s Story was updated to 1.7.0 with three major changes: storage permission replaced with SAF, network access permission was removed and nested chapters are now supported. To read more about these and other improvements, see the full changelog. Newly Added Apps 7 more apps were newly added Advanced PassGen: Generate passwords with ease AltLocationServices: Connects to BeaconDB geolocation service to provide network location services BasicCashFlow: The easiest way to track your cash: no fuss, just money tracking Clay Tablet: Clay Tablet is a simple and intuitive Android app for cuneiform practice Dice App: A simple Dice roller for Android flabr: client for habr.com Java OOP Quiz: Tests Your knowledge of Java Object-Oriented Programming Updated Apps 229 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) < polycule > was updated to 0.2.5 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.4.1 Alligator Bytes was updated to 0.23 Amber was updated to 3.2.6 AntennaPod was updated to 3.7.0 APM was updated to 3.2.6 Apollo was updated to 1.6.4 Apple Flinger was updated to 1.6.1 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.13.2 aTalk was updated to 4.2.2 Aurora Store was updated to 4.7.0 AusweisApp was updated to 2.3.1 Automation was updated to 1.8.2 Auxio was updated to 4.0.4 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.7 BabyName was updated to 1.0.0 Bahn-Vorhersage was updated to 0.4 Bimba was updated to 3.9.0 BitBanana was updated to 0.9.2 BLE Radar was updated to 0.27.4-beta Breakout 71 was updated to 29046079 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.03.1118 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.34.5 Celestia was updated to 1.7.13 Chance was updated to 1.7.2 Chooser was updated to 1.4.1 Cirrus was updated to 3.8 Citrine was updated to 0.7.2 Ciyue was updated to 1.7.0 Clock was updated to 2.16 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.11.5 Cryptographic ID was updated to 0.5.2 Currencies: Exchange Rate Calculator was updated to 1.22.6 CuteMusic was updated to 2.6.0 Dahdidahdit — The Morse Trainer was updated to 1.14.0 Dib2Calc was updated to 0.24.28 Dib2Qm was updated to 0.24.28 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.5 Distribution Calculator was updated to 0.02.05 DNSNet was updated to 1.1.12 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.10.1 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.329.202503170 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.03.2 Everyday Tasks was updated to 1.7.5 EVMap - EV chargers was updated to 1.9.14 Exclave was updated to 0.13.12 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.11 FairEmail was updated to 1.2268 Fcitx5 was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Anthy Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Chewing Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Clipboard Filter Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Hangul Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Jyutping Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (RIME Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Sayura Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (That Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fcitx5 (Unikey Plugin) was updated to 0.1.1-0-g3f41b65d Fedilab was updated to 3.30.1 Feeder was updated to 2.10.1 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 1.1.2 Find my IP was updated to v2.0.2 FitBook was updated to 2.0.2 Flexify was updated to 2.0.16 FlickBoard was updated to 0.2.5 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.4.5 Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary was updated to 1.2.0 FOSS Browser was updated to 18.2 Fossify Clock Beta was updated to 1.1.0 Fossify Launcher Beta was updated to 1.1.0 Fossify Notes Beta was updated to 1.1.1 Fossify SMS Messenger was updated to 1.1.6 Freebloks was updated to 1.6.3 FreeCell4 was updated to 2.2 Frigoligo was updated to 2.4.0 Game Counter was updated to 2.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.35.0 Geo Share was updated to 3.2.0 GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 8.0.0 Gizz Tapes was updated to Gaia Grazer Linuxtage was updated to 1.8.23-glt-Edition GymRoutines was updated to 0.1.0 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.24 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.16 hEARtest was updated to 2.1 hJOP Driver was updated to 2.1 I2P was updated to 2.8.0 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan62lindaiyu IETF 121 was updated to 0.1.73 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.10.1 Inner Breeze was updated to 1.4.0 Joplin was updated to 3.3.4 K-9 Mail was updated to 9.0 Kazumi was updated to 1.6.2 Key Mapper: Unleash your keys! was updated to 2.8.3 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.24 Kotatsu was updated to 8.0 Kwik DEM (ant.spl) was updated to 1.07 Kwik DEM (eur.rus) was updated to 1.07 Kwik DEM (pan.arg) was updated to 1.07 Kwik DEM (sah.jap) was updated to 1.07 Kwik DEM (usa.can) was updated to 1.07 Kwik DEM (zar.aus) was updated to 1.07 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.06 LaundryNotes was updated to 1.1 LessPass was updated to 9.8.5 LibChecker was updated to 2.5.1 LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.0.3 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.3.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.3.0-beta.3 Logger was updated to 3.0.8 Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to 48 maid was updated to 2.0.3 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.26.1 MBCompass was updated to 1.1.4 MedTimer was updated to 1.16.6 Meshenger was updated to 4.4.5 Mill was updated to 5.11.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.2.1 Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2025.1 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.25.5a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.25.5a Musical Notes was updated to 2.1.0 MusicSearch was updated to 1.16.7 Musify was updated to 9.2.6 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.6 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.12 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.5 Nextcloud was updated to 3.31.1 RC1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250321 NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.5.4 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.2.1 NowiPass was updated to 0.4.14 ntodotxt was updated to 0.12.3 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.47 OCR (Tesseract) was updated to 2.5.0 OONI Probe was updated to 5.0.5 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.4.1 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.19.0irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.19.0 OpenVPN for Android was updated to 0.7.57 Orgro was updated to 1.57.1 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.38 Pagan was updated to 1.6.20 PCAPdroid was updated to 1.8.4 Peristyle was updated to v8.1.0 Petals was updated to 3.36.0 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.9.4 PicGuard was updated to 1.1.0 Pineapple Lock Screen (OSS) was updated to 2.0.1-oss PipePipe was updated to 4.2.2 Pocket Broomball was updated to 6.1.3 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.3.1 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.12.2 pOT-Droid was updated to 5.5.3 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-79-fdroid PSLab was updated to 3.2.4 QuickWeather was updated to 2.8.0 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.10 Readrops was updated to 2.1.0 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.13.2 Roboyard was updated to 20.1 RomanDigital was updated to 2.0.2 Rush was updated to 2.6.5 Sapio was updated to 1.6.9 Satunes was updated to 3.0.5 SCEE was updated to 60.3 SchildiChat was updated to 1.6.36.sc86 Session was updated to 1.21.2 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.0.2 SherpaTTS was updated to 1.8 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.2.5 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.6.5 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.27 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 2025.3.0-free SimpleTextEditor was updated to 1.27.0 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.25 SocksTun was updated to 4.0 Sound Toggle was updated to 1.0.5 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.8 Spotube was updated to 4.0.2 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.26 StreetComplete was updated to 60.3 Super Productivity was updated to 12.0.1 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.4.0 T CrB Detector was updated to 2.0 Table Habit was updated to 1.15.8 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.5.2 Terminal Emulator was updated to 5.5.0/X Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.25 Thunderbird Beta for Testers was updated to 10.0b1 Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox was updated to 9.0 tiefprompt was updated to 0.8.0 To Do was updated to 1.3.0 Toadua was updated to 2.3.1 Todo Agenda was updated to 4.13.3 TourCount was updated to 3.6.3 Tournant was updated to 2.9.4 Tower Collector was updated to 2.16.0 traced it was updated to 1.2.1 Traditional T9 was updated to 48.0 Trail Sense was updated to 6.9.0 Tranquil Stopwatch was updated to 1.2.0 TransektCount was updated to 4.2.2 Tusky was updated to 28.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.18 Unexpected Keyboard was updated to 1.31.0 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.42.1 Vacation Days was updated to 14.0 venera was updated to 1.3.3 Voice Notify was updated to 1.4.4 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.26.0 WaDoku was updated to 3.1.0 Warpinator for Android (unofficial) was updated to 1.8.1 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.7.2 wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.8.0 Whisper was updated to 2.8 whoBIRD was updated to 4.0 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.10.2 Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to 1.4.6 wX was updated to 55947 XiVPN was updated to 1.3.3 Xtra was updated to 2.42.1 Yivi was updated to 7.7.0 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 2.2.1 Zorin Connect was updated to 1.33.2 µLauncher was updated to 0.1.3 天使动漫 was updated to 1.4.1 聚在工大 was updated to 4.14.2.1 Spring Cleaning You can read 2024’s week 38 TWIF explanatory section for more details about why archiving happens and how you can access them or appeal the archiving process. The bulk of this weeks cleaning targets apps that haven’t seen an update in the last 10 years (right when Android Lollipop 5.1 was launched, imagine that!), meaning that, besides being old, looking “not modern”, and having possible security issues, they can’t be installed on Android 14 and later anyway. During this time surely another app was developed to cover their functions, right? Archived Apps 170 more apps were archived (expand for the full list) 1x1 clock: Clock widget ACV: Comic and image viewer Agit: Read software source code AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously: Buy or sell Bitcoin without ID verification. Cash or online. Safe, fast, easy. aGrep: Search through text Anagram Solver: Find anagrams for a given word Android Tipitaka: Pali Buddhist Tipitaka Android USB Serial Monitor Lite: Simple USB-Serial Monitor AndroidRun: Calculate distance, instant and average speed Anode: Internode usage widget AnySoftKeyboard: Georgian: Language pack for AnySoftKeyboard APN Settings: APN Settings Shortcut ApnSwitch: Switch internet on and off Apps2Org: Organize apps with labels ARChon Packager: Package installed apps for Chrome Arduino Uno Communicator: Arduino Uno companion app aSQLiteManager: SQLite (small database) frontend Battery Circle: Battery info in the status bar Battery Widget: Battery info Battery Widget: Show battery level Beauty Clock: Pictures of people with the time Behat Reporter: Display server output Better Wifi on/off: Manage the use of Wi-Fi to save battery BlackSCREENremote: Screen off remote control BlueGps: Connect a GPS via bluetooth BookWorm: Book collection manager Brony Live Wallpaper: Animated ponies build.prop Editor: Tweak system properties Bulgarian Phonetic Layout - Ext. Keyboards: Bulgarian phonetic layout for h/w keyboards CallerDetails: Show additional caller details on calls Changjie Input Method: Chinese keyboard ChartDroid Core: Chart engine Chinese French Dictionary: French/Chinese dictionary Clash of Balls: 2-player accelerometer game Color Clock: Clock widget Colour Clock: Tell the time using colours Concentric Clock: Tell the time using concentric arcs Contact Merger: Index and merge contacts with Lucene Cooper: Remote file editing CPU Spy: Display CPU info Cricket’s Alarm: Pet medication alarm CrocodileNote: Take notes and encrypt them Current Wallpaper: Display wallpapers as standalone CurrentWidget: Battery current draw widget Dasher: Text input method (IME) Deckerino: Build/manage your Hearthstone decks Diary: Personal diary Did I?: Recurring todo list DIYgenomics: Comparison of genomic services Dots & Squares: Casual game for two players Droid Dicom Viewer: View medical image formats DroidSat: Satellite viewer Drudgery: Widget-based game Earth Live Wallpaper: Rotating planets wallpaper Email Popup: Display a popup for new mail EncPassChanger: Use a stronger disk password Every Locale: Change the locale quickly eyeCam: Recognize colours EZ Wifi Notification: Show connected Wi-Fi in notification tray Fast Brightness Control Widget: Simple brightness widget Fish: Screensaver Focal: Advanced camera Frex: Fractal viewer Front Camera: Take photos using the frontfacing camera Geo Bookmark: Save timestamped geo-bookmarks Georgian Fonts Installer: Install fonts for Georgian script GL TRON: 3D lightbike racing game Gort: Two factor auth client for Barada Ham: Amateur radio tools Heart Observe: Track pulse and blood pressure Heart rate: Heart Rate Monitor Holo Counter: Simple counter How far do you swim: Calculate the distance you swam HypnoTwister: An animated spiral live wallpaper igo: Go for two players Isolmoa: Abstract strategy board game iTLogger: Measure road quality Jupiter Broadcasting: Watch/listen to tech shows Keypad-Mapper 3: OSM Data Collection Khan Academy viewer: Watch videos and lectures LG Touch LED: LED notifications for LG phones Lithuanian Layouts - Ext. Keyboards: Lithuanian for hardware keyboards Lliga Intermunicipal: Futsal (indoor soccer) in Catalunya LocalMonero: buy XMR privately: Buy or sell Monero without ID verification. Cash or online. Safe, fast, easy. Lock Screen: Lock the screen Love Game: Dating quiz Manille: Un carnet de points pour la manille Markers: Finger drawing MATHTools: Tools for highschool math Matrix Calc: Matrix calculator MemoPad: Free-hand drawing Migraine Tracker: Event tracker Mileage: A Mileage tracker MiniDlnaOmatic: Manage miniDLNA service through ssh Mnemododo: Spaced-repetition learning aid MobileWebCam: Simple webcam MobiPerf: Mobile network measurements Monster Hunter 3U Database: Reference for Monster Hunter 3 game Mounts2SD: Map device storage to sdcard n-Puzzle: Classic puzzle game with custom images Nachtlager Downloader: Download a particular podcast Narau: Japanese revision help ND Filter: Neutral density filter calculator Neko Project II for Android: PC-98 emulator Notification Analyser: Analyse notification history Notify: Manage notes and TODO lists NoUSSD: USSD firewall Omnomagon: Cafeteria info Open WiFi Cleaner: Forget open access points OpenFixMap: Display and edit OpenStreetMap errors OSChina: Chinese-language FOSS news PalmCalc: 7-in-1 calculator ParanoidWallpapers: Wallpapers from a custom ROM Pattern HDPI Wallpapers: 10 geometric wallpapers PerApp: Separate settings for each app Permissions: Lists application permissions Photo Bookmark: Create homescreen shortcuts to images Pixelesque: Pixel-art editor Pocket Bandit: Slot-machine game Pocket Talk: Read text messages in Morse code or aloud Pong Time: Pong themed clock Product Open Data: Get product info from barcodes PuppyFrame: Widget that displays pictures PurpleDock: Car home-screen Puzzle: Sliding puzzle Pyroman: Jaws of Fire: Old legend in new form Quake: Quake 1 port (Just get idTech4A++) QuiteSleep: Answer calls when you’re busy Quizz’n World Capitals: Quiz game Radio Študent: Listen to radio Ljubljana (Slovenia) Rage Maker: Comic strip maker Random App: Launch a random app Rights alert: Permissions Reporter RingCode: Morse code notifications of incoming calls RingyDingyDingy: Remote ring and lock Rotation Manager: Set app specific orientations RoundR: Round the corners of the screen Scribbler: Write on the screen Scuttloid: Semantic Scuttle client ServDroid: Web server Shift: Eliminate the tiles Short URL Evaluator: Evaluate short urls Signal From Mars: Interactive story Simple Loan Calculator: Calculator for payments Simple Reflected Light Meter: Light meter for photographers Slider: Live wallpaper with 15-puzzle look Slight backup: A very simple backup program Slow It!: Simple game Sophia keyboard: Android Latin keyboard SparkleShare: Distributed collaboration STK Addon Viewer: View addons for SuperTuxKart Stripepaper: Parallaxing live wallpaper Subtle News: News digest Sudowars: Multiplayer sudoku SynCarnet: Distributed Todo list Temaki: List maker ThreeDLite: Live wallpaper Timer: Timer combo Travis Jr.: Travis-CI client Tux Memory: Discover tiles by pair URforms Database: Data entry tool URLazy: Tool for web developers Visualizer: Display multimedia visualisations Voodoo Screen Test Patterns: Produce colours for testing VTU CS Lab Manual: Manual for VTU computer science lab Wi-Fi Widget: Wi-Fi Widget Word Value: Calculate word values World Clock: Display multiple clocks for selected timezones Yin Yang: Live wallpaper YubNub Command Line: Search the web and get answers Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Group improvements (2025/03/20 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Mar 2025, Week 12 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.22.0 were promoted to suggested so everybody got the update this week. If you want to know what’s new, see the changelog. What’s next? We’re in the bike-shedding stage for the modern UI colors and we polish the nuances of our tones. So stay tuned for a future alpha release soon. /PS: Hey, psst, don’t tell anyone, but… targetSdk was bumped to 30 for F-Droid and we are going edge-to-edge internally already. Community News Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.34 fixing a CVE bug in the PIN protection. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible. Session was updated to 1.21.0 bringing support for the new Groups v2 standard. If you are an admin or just curious, groups can be upgraded since yesterday, and you can read all about that in this blog post. Also posted was “End-to-End Encryption: Why It’s Essential in Modern Communication” which might not be news to you, its user, but might come in handy for your contacts. SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.3 for arm64 and by tomorrow for armv7 too. While waiting, do read the 10 minute new blog post from the developers, talking about their own group improvements. To Do, Create checklists, is back with version 1.2.2 after a 10 year pause. The app is reproducibly built now, so, if by some miracle you had this installed still, make sure to backup and uninstall it, as the new version needs a fresh install. @shuvashish76 debloats a device: AppManager dev launched a new website to list and classify bloatware. The Android Debloat List might help you clean house and limit attack surface, and it’s integrated in the app itself since version 4.0.0, see the Debloater function, so you can easily find your way around. As usual with these type of actions, make sure to double check what you disable and verify device functionality after. Removed Apps 4 apps were removed Amethyst: Nostr Client for Android GitTouch: An app for GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea, and Gitee(码云) kubenav: Navigator for your Kubernetes clusters right in your pocket 炒饭超Fun: Client for ChaoFun community Newly Added Apps 10 apps were newly added Advanced PortChecker: Check if TCP ports are open Bahn-Vorhersage: Ranking for train journeys according to their reliability. (German only) Bitcoin Wallet [signet]: Your own Bitcoins, in your own pocket! Distribution Calculator: Easily operate with uncertainty Game Counter: A customizable game point counter geteduroam: Configure eduroam by using your institution profile Gizz Tapes: Stream King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard shows right to your phone! Pomodorot: A simple timer which pauses when not in view Redomi: Open songs from different platforms to your favourite one Tsacdop-Fork - Podcast Player: Enjoy podcasts with Tsacdop-Fork! A clean, simply beautiful, and friendly app Updated Apps 109 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to 1.11.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.54.5 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.6 Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.25.1 Bazarnote was updated to 0.9.0 BILIBILIAS was updated to 2.1.0 Binary Eye was updated to 1.65.2 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.03.1114 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.2.9 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 22.0 Chip Defense was updated to 1.53 Chooser was updated to 1.4 Clock was updated to 2.15 Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to 4.3.1 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.8-ose Delta Chat was updated to 1.54.4 DetoxDroid: Digital Detoxing as Your New Default was updated to 2.0.7 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.4 DNSNet was updated to 1.1.8 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.227.1 Energize was updated to 0.12.3 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.99 FairEmail was updated to 1.2267 Fall was updated to 1.2 FFUpdater was updated to 80.0.0 Find my IP was updated to v2.0.1 Flip 2 DND was updated to 3.0.6 Forkgram was updated to 11.8.2.0 Forkyz was updated to 63 Fridgey was updated to 2.2.2 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 2.1.4 HeaterRC was updated to 2.2 Home Medkit was updated to 1.7.3 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.4.2 Infomaniak kMeet was updated to 2.6.3 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.10.0 Inventory was updated to 1.0.8 Jami was updated to 20250310-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.18.6 Journal was updated to 11.10 KDE Connect was updated to 1.33.2 KeePassVault was updated to 1.13.0 Key Mapper: Unleash your keys! was updated to 2.8.2 KitchenOwl was updated to 0.6.11 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.22 Komelia was updated to 0.15.0 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.3.2 Logcat Reader was updated to 1.8.1 Logline - MovieApp was updated to 1.0.2 LxReader was updated to 0.8.3 (fdroid) Markor was updated to 2.14.1 Mastodon was updated to 2.9.5 MedTimer was updated to 1.16.4 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.8.9 MOROway App was updated to 10.2.0 MusicSearch was updated to 1.16.4 Musify was updated to 9.2.4 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.4 NewsBlur - News reader was updated to 13.4.2 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.24.1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250312 Nunti was updated to v2.7.2 NymVPN: Secure VPN by Nym was updated to v1.3.1 Open Food Facts was updated to 4.19.0 OpenBible was updated to 1.6.1 OpenDrummer - Drum Loops was updated to v1.1 osm2gmaps was updated to 0.5.10 Padland was updated to 3.2 Pagan was updated to 1.6.19 Phocid was updated to 20250310 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.3 Pix-EzViewer was updated to 2.1.2 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.11.3 pretixPRINT was updated to 2.19.6-foss ProseReader was updated to 1.2.0 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.30.1 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125030711-github Really Basic Vocab was updated to 3.4.5 Satunes was updated to 3.0.4 Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.0.1 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.0.19 sing-box was updated to 1.11.5 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.25 Survival Manual was updated to 5.0.0 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.29.3.0 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.5.1 TerraTactician Expandoria was updated to 0.3.0 Text Tools was updated to 2.0.3 The Life was updated to 1.32.0 The Light was updated to 3.91 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.24 tiefprompt was updated to 0.7.0 TimeR Machine was updated to 7.6.1 Tournant was updated to 2.9.3 Traditional T9 was updated to 47.0 Tuta Calendar was updated to 274.250312.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 274.250312.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.16 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.42.0 Urn was updated to 1.2.0 Vacation Days was updated to 13.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.25.1 WA Adder was updated to 1.0.1 Warpinator for Android (unofficial) was updated to 1.8 Whisper was updated to 2.5 WiFi Walkie Talkie was updated to 1.14 YacGuide was updated to 0.9.0 You Have Mail was updated to 0.20.0 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 2.2.0 聚在工大 was updated to 4.13.7.3 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Fashion change - UI rewrites (2025/03/13 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2025, Week 11 Community News @OxygenCobalt has shipped a huge 4.0.0 update with a total user interface refresh based on the latest Material Design specs for Auxio and two more patches polishing the experience. The changelog can be read here. Badge Magic was updated to 1.11.63 after 5 years, now rewritten entirely in Flutter. Spotube was updated to 4.0.0, besides the needed bug fixes it features a rewrite of the entire app in shadcn/ui replacing Material theming. Newly Added Apps 9 apps were newly added Alligator Bytes: Record musical loops, play them back, and change the sound with movement Bim!: A multiplayer online mobile game of the last man standing genre Diatronome: A tuner, a visual metronome and a synthesizer Food You - Calorie Tracker & Food Diary: Track your calories with Material You aesthetic GPS Setter: A GPS setter based on the Xposed framework LaundryNotes: Store washing information and symbols for all fabrics, making laundry easier! ThreatScoopOnionChat: A Forked Version focused on privacy from SESSION WaDoku: Japanese-German online dictionary USP - ZX Spectrum Emulator: Unreal Speccy Portable - ZX Spectrum Emulator Updated Apps 138 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) < polycule > was updated to 0.2.4 Apollo was updated to 1.6.3 Apple Flinger was updated to 1.6.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.54.4 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.13.1 Audio Share was updated to 0.3.4 AusweisApp was updated to 2.3.0 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.5 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.26 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.26 Bitmask was updated to 1.5.1 Breakout 71 was updated to 29022953 Briar was updated to 1.5.14 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.2.8 Chance was updated to 1.7.1 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.17.0 Chinese Converter was updated to 3.1.0 Ciyue was updated to 1.6.0 Clipious was updated to 1.22.8 Compass was updated to 1.14.8 DankChat was updated to 3.10.6 Dark Mode Live Wallpaper was updated to 1.8.0 DNSNet was updated to 1.1.7 EBT New Note was updated to 0.80.0 Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.32 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.03.1 Escapepod - Podcast Player was updated to 1.5.3 Exclave was updated to 0.13.11 FairEmail was updated to 1.2265 FakeTraveler was updated to 2.1.0 Fedilab was updated to 3.30.0 Feeder was updated to 2.10.0 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 136.0.0 Find my IP was updated to v2.0.0 FitBook was updated to 2.0.1 Flexify was updated to 2.0.15 Flip 2 DND was updated to 3.0.5 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.6 FREE Browser was updated to 3.1 Gramophone was updated to 1.0.16.1 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.23 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.26.0 IETF 121 was updated to 0.1.71 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.2.0 Immich was updated to 1.129.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.9.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build103.1.1 Jami was updated to 20250307-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.18.5 Kazumi was updated to 1.6.1 KDE Connect was updated to 1.33.1 Kodi was updated to 21.2 LabNex for GitLab was updated to 4.0.0 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.1.11 LaunchTime Homescreen was updated to 0.8.6 Les Pas - Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated to 2.9.11 LibreSudoku was updated to 2.0.2 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.3.0-beta.2 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.15 Logcat Reader was updated to 1.8.0 maid was updated to 2.0.2 MarketMonk was updated to 1.0.32 MedTimer was updated to 1.16.3 mensen was updated to 1.4.2 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.19 Metronome was updated to 1.6.5 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.8.4 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.1.4 Musify was updated to 9.2.2 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.5c Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250309 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.5.12 NextPush was updated to 2.1.6 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.2.0 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.46 OCR was updated to 5.2 Olauncher was updated to v5.3.2 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.10 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.17.5-beta OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.18.0irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.18.0 Orgro was updated to 1.55.1 Pagan was updated to 1.6.17 PCAPdroid was updated to 1.8.3 Petals was updated to 3.35.5 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.9.3 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.62 Photok was updated to 1.9.3 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.15 Pixelix was updated to 4.0.3 Prav was updated to 2.12.13+free ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.9.59.0 Raccoon was updated to 0.4.2 ReTerminal was updated to 1.0.4 Riseup VPN was updated to 1.5.1 RomanDigital was updated to 2.0.1 Rush was updated to 2.6.1 Safe Space was updated to 2.2.1 Sapio was updated to 1.6.8 Satunes was updated to 3.0.3 SauceNAO was updated to 1.25 SCEE was updated to 60.2 SherpaTTS was updated to 1.7 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.0.17 ShoppingList was updated to v1.18.0 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.26 Smither was updated to 3.5.12 SMS Import / Export was updated to 2.4.2-standard SocksTun was updated to 3.0 Soothing Noise Player was updated to 1.2.3 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.7 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.24 StreetComplete was updated to 60.2 Sunup was updated to 1.0.4 Super Productivity was updated to 12.0.0 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.5 TourCount was updated to 3.6.2 trale was updated to 0.10.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.18.3 Tuta Calendar was updated to 271.250227.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 271.250227.0 Unchained was updated to 1.3.7 Unciv was updated to 4.15.15 venera was updated to 1.3.2 Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to 2.0.1 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.7.0 Whisper was updated to 2.4 whoBIRD was updated to 3.9 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50524-r-2025-03-04 WikiReader was updated to 1.10.2 Xed-Editor was updated to 3.0.0 YacGuide Dev was updated to 20250304 Yivi was updated to 7.6.0 Zashi: Zcash Wallet was updated to 1.4 Zorin Connect was updated to 1.33.1 μlogger was updated to 3.12 天使动漫 was updated to 1.3.0 聚在工大 was updated to 4.13.7.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Join our ranks of digital luddites (2025/03/06 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Mar 2025, Week 10 Community News “Digital Luddites are rising. They want to democratise tech, not destroy it” is a ten minute article about the “luddites” of old and of the present. Money quote: “Proprietary corporate systems have long been challenged by free, open-source alternatives. But digital Luddism isn’t just about using different tools. It’s about systemic change towards sustainable, transparent and user-controlled infrastructure”. That bit will sound all too familiar to everyone involved in FOSS and to fans of what the F-Droid ecosystem tries to achieve. Good news for the Android ecosystem, “the first RISC-V vendor to support the open source Android app marketplace” (in Chinese) has been announced. The gist of it in English: “The Xuantie team has now completed the porting of about 1,500 applications in the F-Droid market, covering a wide range of categories such as system tools, graphics and images, audio and video software, transportation, office software, input methods, and development tools, improving the experience of end users of the RISC-V architecture Android system.” If you are a Fediverse user, you might enjoy a “Large overview of Mastodon clients for Android” (in Polish), covering the F-Droid repo, IzzyOnDroid repo and even some apps from a certain silo app catalogue. freeminer was updated to 5.10.0 after a nine year pause. This voxel-based multiplayer game platform is a fork of Minetest Luanti so everything should be familiar. OpenConnect, Android UI for OpenConnect VPN client, was just included as a continuation and replacement for the old OpenConnect, SSL VPN client for Cisco AnyConnect, now archived. QUIK SMS was updated to 4.1.0 after a long one year beta period, fixing a lot of bugs. Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated to 3.0.0 with a huge update. The developer posted about the changes early on, so you can read about the sixth hero which will be “The Cleric!”, take a review of the year 2024 and peruse all the changes in v3.0.0. Shitter, Lightweight Mastodon client, was archived as the appID was changed to Smither. Warsmash, A Warcraft III emulator made using LibGDX game engine, joins our ranks of game cult classics, so grab you old CDs. Newly Added Apps 15 more apps were newly added Amadz - Calling App: Clean & intuitive Phone Dialer app following Material Design principles ArtNet Receiver: Listen for and analyze ArtNet data in the local network BLE Manager: Control your BLE devices easily. No libraries needed. Chinese Converter: Converts between Simplified and Traditional with regional variants support! fivethreeone_log: Track your workouts and progress with the 5/3/1 method FlickBoard: Type faster with flicking Mnemosyne: A memorization app designed for lists as opposed to traditional flashcards OpenDrummer - Drum Loops: Drum loops in different styles and tempos SocketChat: A simple app to chat with anyone you want on the same network T CrB Detector: T CrB Detector notifies the user when the star T CrB has exploded tiefprompt: A relatively simple teleprompter application Urn: A mobile, offline urn for majority judgement polls WA Adder: Add WhatsApp contacts without giving WhatsApp access to your contacts! Wispar: Stay up-to-date with article in your field of study! Zashi: Zcash Wallet: Zashi is a Zcash wallet that keeps your transaction and message history private Updated Apps 193 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) < polycule > was updated to 0.2.3 AAAAXY was updated to 1.6.0+20250223.3618.0de18b79 AAT Another Activity Tracker was updated to v1.27 Ad-silence was updated to 0.6.2-prod Amber was updated to 3.2.5 Anytime Podcast Player was updated to 1.3.11 Apollo was updated to 1.6.2 App Manager was updated to 4.0.1 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.54.3 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.12.3 Audile was updated to 1.8.0 Audio Share was updated to 0.3.3 AVNC was updated to 2.8.0 Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.84.0-banglejs Better Schedule (Bakaláři) was updated to 2.0 BitBanana was updated to 0.9.0 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.25 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.25 Breakout 71 was updated to 29017278 Breezy Weather was updated to 5.4.5_freenet Canta was updated to 2.5.0 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.02.1111 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.2.3 CatShare was updated to 1.4 Celestia was updated to 1.7.12 Chance was updated to 1.7.0 Chooser was updated to 1.4-pre-2 Ciyue was updated to 1.5.0 Clauncher was updated to v5.2.6 Clock was updated to 2.14 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.11.4 CPU Info was updated to 6.3.0 CTU Menza was updated to 1.4.3 Custom Uploader was updated to 1.4.2 DankChat was updated to 3.10.4 Dart Checker was updated to 0.8.1 DeadHash was updated to 1.8.3 Delta Chat was updated to 1.54.3 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 2.1.0 Diaguard: Diabetes Diary was updated to 3.13.2 DNSNet was updated to 1.0.19 Droid Pad was updated to 2.1.1 e1547 - e621 browser was updated to 20.0.0 E6B Flight Computer was updated to 1.4 Eidetic was updated to 1.4.1 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.03.0 Emacs was updated to 30.1 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.7.4 EP Mobile was updated to 2.34.2 Exclave was updated to 0.13.10 FairEmail was updated to 1.2264 FakeTraveler was updated to 2.0.0 Fedilab was updated to 3.29.2 Feeder was updated to 2.9.2 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.72 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 135.0.1 FitBook was updated to 1.0.110 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2025.02.2 Flip 2 DND was updated to 3.0.4 Forkyz was updated to 62 Forkyz Scanner was updated to 8 Fridgey was updated to 2.2.1 Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.84.0 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.35.2 Graded - Grade tracker was updated to 2.8.0-beta2 Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated to 3.8.1 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.22 Home Medkit was updated to 1.7.2 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan61caitlyn Immich was updated to 1.128.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.4.1 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.9.1 J-K Bike - Mechanical Disaster Prevention was updated to 1.4.0 Joplin was updated to 3.3.2 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.11.00.ose Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.6 Kazumi was updated to 1.6.0 KDE Connect was updated to 1.33.0 Keep Screen On was updated to 1.21.1 Kepler-App was updated to 2.12.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.21 Kitsune was updated to 2.0.5 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.11 LibreTube was updated to 0.27.1 Linkora was updated to 0.11.2 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.12 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.25.1 MBCompass was updated to 1.1.3 MedTimer was updated to 1.16.2 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.7.8 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.1.3 Musical Notes was updated to 2.0.0 Musify was updated to 9.2.0 MyMood was updated to 2.0.1 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.3 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.5b News Reader was updated to 1.0.10 NewsBlur - News reader was updated to 13.4.1 Nextcloud was updated to 3.31.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250304 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 21.0.0 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.5.11 NextPush was updated to 2.1.5 Notally | Minimalist Notes was updated to 6.1 Nov Open Reader was updated to 1.1.3 NowiPass was updated to 0.3.13 Nunti was updated to v2.7.0 NymVPN: Secure VPN by Nym was updated to v1.2.1 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.88 Olauncher was updated to v5.2.28 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.9 OnionShare was updated to 0.2.1-beta Open Sudoku was updated to 4.4.0 OpenBible was updated to 1.6.0 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.17.4-beta OpenWrt Manager was updated to 1.38.0 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2025.03.02-7-FDroid Orgro was updated to 1.54.5 osm2gmaps was updated to 0.5.9 OSMTracker was updated to 2025.02 Outline was updated to 1.15.0 P2Play - Peertube client was updated to 0.9.0 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.10.1 Pagan was updated to 1.6.16 Passy - cross-platform password manager was updated to 1.9.4 Phocid was updated to 20250226 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.61 Photok was updated to 1.9.2 PipePipe was updated to 4.2.1 Pixelix was updated to 4.0.1 plees-tracker was updated to 25.2.1 Pocket Broomball was updated to 6.1.1 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.3.0 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.10.3 Polaris was updated to 0.10.3 Prayer Book was updated to 0.8.1 pretixPRINT was updated to 2.19.5-foss pretixSCAN was updated to 2.10.2 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.9.45.0 QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to 4.6.12 QRAlarm was updated to 2.5.2 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.49.0-fdroid Raccoon was updated to 0.4.1 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125020581-github Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.13.1 Robot36 - SSTV Image Decoder was updated to 2.15 Roboyard was updated to 19 Rush was updated to 2.6.0 Safe Space was updated to 2.2.0 Satunes was updated to 3.0.1 Save Locally was updated to 1.4.3 SCEE was updated to 60.1 Schiffe versenken (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.2.3 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.12.2 Seafile was updated to 3.0.9 Seers Lodge was updated to 1.1.4 SherpaTTS was updated to 1.6 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.6.4 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 2025.2.0-free sing-box was updated to 1.11.4 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.24 strongSwan VPN Client was updated to 2.5.4 Sunup was updated to 1.0.3 Tella was updated to 2.11.0 The One App was updated to 3.2.0 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.23 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.28 Tiny Weather Forecast Germany was updated to 0.62.7 traced it was updated to 1.1.0 Traditional T9 was updated to 46.0 Traintime PDA was updated to 1.4.3 trale was updated to 0.9.3 Trime was updated to 3.3.3 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.18.1 Tusky was updated to 28.0 beta 1 Tuta Calendar was updated to 271.250224.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 271.250224.0 Unchained was updated to 1.3.6 Unciv was updated to 4.15.14 URLCheck was updated to 3.2 Vacation Days was updated to 12.0 Vernet - Network Analyzer was updated to 1.1.0 Vespucci was updated to 20.2.4.0 Weechat-Android was updated to 1.10.1 WhatsApp Cleaner was updated to v1.0.3 Whisper was updated to 2.3 WiVeWa was updated to 1.5.0 words.hk 粵典 was updated to 3.5.0 Write On: Simple Notepad was updated to 1.3 Xed-Editor was updated to 2.9.9 Youamp was updated to 2.0.0-beta06 µLauncher was updated to 0.0.23 聚在工大 was updated to 4.13.7 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Even my keyboard is built reproducibly (2025/03/04 00:00)
Two years ago, almost to the day, we’ve spoken about how “VPN trust requires free software” outlining the importance of reproducible builds in general, and specially when it comes to your Internet connection security. That post sparked some interest and led to improvements in the way F-Droid packages reproducible builds. Last year we were sadden to read that proprietary keyboards are (still) spying on their users and encouraged you to seek better FOSS keyboard apps. The keyboard is perhaps the most sensitive app on the device. Everything you write will go through the keyboard app, including passwords and private messages. In order to have a trustworthy device, we need to know that our keyboard app is treating our secrets with the utmost care. The best ones do not even request internet access or any other way to send our precious keystrokes anywhere besides where they are intended to go. As we push for apps to be reproducible when included, let’s take a look at the current F-Droid offer in regards to keyboards. Our F-Droid Verification Server continuously rebuilds apps and compares them to the published version. This allows us to spot sources of non-determinism in all apps, no matter if setup as reproducible or not. We split our available keyboard apps based on their reproducible status as: Reproducible - we host the developer signed packages after we verify them as reproducible Verified - we host our signed packages, and the Verification Server confirms them as reproducible Soon to be Verified - we host our signed packages, verification fails, but we’ve contributed upstream to hopefully fix the issues, so maybe the next version will be fine Not verified - we host our signed packages, verification fails or the app is so old that there are lower chances to be fixed Reproducible: Latin script: Colemak Mod-DH Keyboard, Fossify Keyboard, HeliBoard Asian script: Fcitx5 & plugins, Kuaizi IME, Sithakuru Special layout: FlickBoard, Thumb-Key, Traditional T9 Voice input: Sayboard Misc: KryptEY Verified: Latin script: Brailliac: Braille Keyboard, DroidTR IME, Irregular Expressions, Key Mapper GUI Keyboard, Simple Keyboard, Unexpected Keyboard Asian script: Guileless Bopomofo, Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) Voice input: Kõnele, Whisper Misc: FutharkBoard Soon to be Verified: Latin script: 8Vim, FlorisBoard Asian script: Indic Keyboard, Trime Not Verified: Latin script: AnySoftKeyboard & plugins, Hacker’s Keyboard Misc: KeePassDX - FOSS Password Safe Too old to even be checked: Changjie Input Method, Dasher, Mozc for Android, Sophia Keyboard Interesting list, looks like we offer a large variety of input apps that, hopefully, not only cover your typing needs but also allow you to do this on a verified reproducibly built app. This work was supported by your donations, and from NLnet. To help support F-Droid, please check out the donation page and contribute what you can.
Saving screens (2025/02/27 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Feb 2025, Week 9 F-Droid core Termux:GUI, A plugin for Termux to use the Android GUI from terminal applications, is finally live. Well technically it was live several times in the past but it was not set up properly. How so? Termux has a bunch of add-ons that enhance its functionality, but in order to interoperate with the main Termux app, they need to be specially setup to be signed with the same key (F-Droid key in this case). We have a dozen or so apps that need this configuration, set in the main build server, and managed there along with the signing setup since the early days of F-Droid. As the F-Droid software components got updated, changed, improved over the years, this keyaliases (as they are called) setting was not yet tackled. This month the last bits have fallen into place, so we are moving forward to configure it in the main metadata repository so they are more easily added and removed as needed in the future. Community News If you live in France, maybe you can call your locally elected representative and ask them how are they going to vote on the new proposed surveillance law? Yes, there’s one every 8 months or so in some country, not sure how they think they can add backdoors to encryption and siphon data from your device at will yet still respect GDPR, but they keep trying to push these. You can read about the law here and contact your favorite député ici. FOSSGIS 2025 conference is the leading conference for free and open source software for geoinformation systems in the D-A-CH space, as well as for the topics of Open Data and OpenStreetMap. It will take place in Münster between 26 and 29 March. FOSSGIS 2025 Schedule was updated to 1.69.1-FOSSGIS-Edition, so make sure you have it installed and ready. maid was updated to 2.0.1 with a complete rewrite of the entire codebase. It wasn’t a smooth process as reproducible builds are trickier and we had to skip some versions in between, but now it is live. OnionShare was updated to 0.2.0-beta, but should be skipped as it is crashing. An updated version is built right now. PipePipe was updated to 4.2.0 after a two months pause, many issues have been fixed and features being added like AV1 high quality format support and Sponsorblock integration. RiMusic was updated to 0.6.71 which might be its last version to come to F-Droid. In an odd turn, the developer lost control of their Discord instance, warned people not to donate if asked there, saw their app being cloned on some centralized app store and made the app source code unavailable for the foreseeable future as a reaction. If the developer changes their mind, we will promptly update it as soon as possible. SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.2.5 and, if you have 13 minutes to spare, the developers wrote about how they want to handle “large groups and privacy-preserving content moderation” in the future. Threema Libre is built reproducible in F-Droid, signed by the developer. But this means that both teams need to be extra careful and fix issues that might arise from this process. This week the app was updated to 5.8.1l after a 3 months hiatus, thanks to the collaboration between F-Droid contributors and the app developers. Also now it features emoji reactions. 😜 We’ve bemoaned previously about the lack of updates for VLC but that’s well in the past as the app was just updated to 3.6.3. What’s new? It comes with the new Remote Access feature, a parental control and a lot of fixes. Also in the news, to celebrate its 20 year anniversary, “VLC Lunar Time Capsule” will send your video to the actual moon, if this TWIF gets to you on time. And the most interesting bit came out of CES 2025 back in January, where VLC announced that they will integrate offline on-device generative AI for automatic subtitle generation capable of speaking several dozen languages, based on the Whisper models (same used in the Whisper, Voice recognition app). XScreenSaver was updated to 6.09 as we missed two versions, and while we don’t get Jamie Zawinski’s, of Netscape and early Mozilla fame, stamp of “official”, we want this fun app to be available and on your screen, be it as a live wallpaper or an actual screensaver. @shuvashish76 ask us to stop press: As we learn that @cketti, the beloved developer, has quit their job working on Thunderbird for Android and K-9 Mail at Mozilla. You can read more in the “Goodbye K-9 Mail” post. Newly Added Apps 13 more apps were newly added Adresilo: Search for places Bazarnote: A simple offline shopping list app Breakout 71: Break colourful bricks, catch bouncing coins and select powerful upgrades Cascada: Casual logic game with marbles for two players J-K Bike - Mechanical Disaster Prevention: App that helps build positive bike maintenance behaviours MultiLocale: Add additional languages to your device’s locale settings Perceived Stress Scale: Are you stressed? Take the test to find out how stressed you are Pill Time: Keep track of meds that can be taken as needed (not at a specific time) ReTerminal: Terminal Emulator Rucoy calculator: An unofficial calculator for all things Rucoy Online related Smither: Lightweight Mastodon client To Do: A simple to-do app that follows Material Design 3 WhatsApp Cleaner: Clean Redundant Media and Files from Storage Updated Apps 203 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) addy.io was updated to v5.6.0 Amber was updated to 3.2.2 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.847 Anemo was updated to 2.7.0 AniHyou - AniList client was updated to 1.3.5 APM was updated to 3.2.5 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.54.1 Arcticons was updated to 12.3.0 Arcticons Black was updated to 12.3.0 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 12.3.0 Arcticons Material You was updated to 12.3.0 Asteroid’s Revenge was updated to 0.12.1 aTalk was updated to 4.2.1 BeeCount Knitting Counter was updated to 2.7.3 Bible Notify was updated to 4.10.0 blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble1.1.2 CaptureSposed was updated to 1.0.7 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.02.1108 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.2.2 CatShare was updated to 1.3 Chooser was updated to 1.4-pre-1 Ciyue was updated to 1.4.0 Clock was updated to 2.12.1 Conversations was updated to 2.17.12+free Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to 4.3.0 Counter was updated to 35 Cryptomator was updated to 1.11.1 CuteMusic was updated to 2.5.1 DankChat was updated to 3.10.2 Dart Checker was updated to 0.8 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.3 DigiPaws - Digital Wellbeing and App Blocker was updated to 2.1-alpha-lite DNSNet was updated to 1.0.18 Droid Pad was updated to 2.0.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.225.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.328.202502160 EasySSHFS was updated to 0.5.14 Eidetic was updated to 1.3.2 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.11-48 Energize was updated to 0.12.2 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.7.3 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.98 ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated to 1.10.0 EVMap - EV chargers was updated to 1.9.13 EweSticker was updated to 20250217 Exclave was updated to 0.13.9 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.10 Faraday was updated to 1.1.6 Fedilab was updated to 3.29.1 Feeder was updated to 2.9.1 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.70 File Navigator was updated to 0.2.5 FilmFacts was updated to 3.0 FitBook was updated to 1.0.106 Flexify was updated to 2.0.9 Flip 2 DND was updated to 3.0.2 Frigoligo was updated to 2.3.1 GCompris was updated to 25.0 Geological Time Scale was updated to 0.7.1 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.1b4 Gotify was updated to 2.8.2 gptAssist was updated to 1.70 Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated to 3.8.0 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.21 Harmony Music was updated to 1.11.2 Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.16 hJOP Driver was updated to 2.0 Home Medkit was updated to 1.7.1 hwloc lstopo was updated to 2.12.0-1-1.6.1 Ichaival was updated to 1.9.4 idTech4A++ was updated to 1.1.0harmattan60verena Inner Breeze was updated to 1.3.9 IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to 2.10.12 Joplin was updated to 3.3.1 Json List was updated to 1.6.1 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.10.01.ose Kazumi was updated to 1.5.8 Keep Screen On was updated to 1.21.0 Key Mapper: Unleash your keys! was updated to 2.8.1 Keysh was updated to 0.1.10 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.20 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.04 LibreOffice Viewer was updated to 24.8.5.2 LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.0.2 LocalSend was updated to 1.17.0 Logline - MovieApp was updated to 1.0.1 Luanti was updated to 5.11.0 LxReader was updated to 0.8.2 (fdroid) MarketMonk was updated to 1.0.31 Materialious was updated to 1.7.14 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.25.0 MBCompass was updated to 1.1.2 MedTimer was updated to 1.16.1 Meshenger was updated to 4.4.4 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.17 Minute Maze was updated to 0.2.1 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.7.5 MoeMemos was updated to 0.8.5 Money Manager Ex was updated to 5.1.1 Muse - Text to Speech was updated to 0.1.2 Musekit was updated to 2.3.0 Musify was updated to 9.1.1 Neo Store was updated to 1.0.8 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.2 Network Survey was updated to 1.33 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.5a Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250224 Nextcloud News was updated to 0.9.9.91 Nextcloud Tables was updated to 2.0.8 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.5.8 NextGIS Mobile was updated to 2.9.3 NLWeer was updated to 1.11.0 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.32 NowiPass was updated to 0.3.11 NymVPN: Secure VPN by Nym was updated to v1.2.0 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.45 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.85 Olauncher was updated to v5.0.0 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.8 OONI Probe was updated to 5.0.3 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.10 OpenMensa was updated to 2.0.1 Openreads was updated to 2.10.0 Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline was updated to 2025.02.17-3-FDroid Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.37 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.6 OSS-Dict was updated to 1.1.1 Pagan was updated to 1.6.15 Passy - cross-platform password manager was updated to 1.9.3 Peristyle was updated to v8.0.0 Phocid was updated to 20250223 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.9.2 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.60 Photok was updated to 1.9.1 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.14 PixelDroid was updated to 1.0.beta40 Planes Android was updated to 0.4.4.2 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.2.5 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.8.2 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-78-fdroid Prayer Book was updated to 0.8.0 Prepaid Balance was updated to 2.11 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.29.1 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.8.58.4 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.12+free Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125020471-github Roboyard was updated to 18.1 RomanDigital was updated to 2.0.0 Rosarium was updated to Judices RTTT was updated to 1.3 Rush was updated to 2.5.4 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.8 Sapio was updated to 1.6.7 Satunes was updated to 3.0.0 ScanBridge was updated to 1.2.0 SelfPrivacy was updated to 0.12.3 SherpaTTS was updated to 1.5 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.6.3 SkyTube was updated to 2.995 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.995 Solon was updated to 2.5.2 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.6 Squeeze Client was updated to 1.5 Stay Put - Unplug Alert was updated to 0.8.4 strongSwan VPN Client was updated to 2.5.3 Suntimes was updated to 0.16.5 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.3.8 Tarnhelm was updated to 1.8.0 taz was updated to 1.10.2 The Life was updated to 1.31.0 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.21 Tiny Weather Forecast Germany was updated to 0.62.6 Todo was updated to 1.5.5 Todo Agenda was updated to 4.12.2 Tournant was updated to 2.9.2 Traditional T9 was updated to 45.0 Trail Sense was updated to 6.8.0 trale was updated to 0.9.2 TransektCount was updated to 4.2.1 Tridenta was updated to 1.4 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.247 Trigger was updated to 4.0.6 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.10 Tuner was updated to 7.1.3 Tuta Mail was updated to 270.250219.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.12 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.41.4 venera was updated to 1.3.1 Video Diary was updated to 1.0.8 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.24.3 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50522-r-2025-02-20 WikiReader was updated to 1.9.1 Working Time Account was updated to 2.10.011 Xed-Editor was updated to 2.9.6 XiVPN was updated to 1.3.1 Xray was updated to 10.2.0 Xtra was updated to 2.42.0 You Have Mail was updated to 0.19.1 Youamp was updated to 2.0.0-beta05 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 2.1.1 µLauncher was updated to 0.0.22 天使动漫 was updated to 1.2.0 聚在工大 was updated to 4.13.5.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Rewrite it in FOSS (2025/02/20 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Feb 2025, Week 8 F-Droid core F-Droid Client 1.22.0 has been live for a couple of weeks now, the gist of the changes can be read here. Did you give it a good shake on your Android distro? No? As it’s not yet “suggested” only users that manually update or opt-in into Betas got it already, so feel free to do that and ping us if we need to fix any last minute thing. Community News Are you around Valencia, Spain on Feb 28? Would you like to mess with Linux, ad blocking, free apps, federated networks? There’s a workshop for you at Las Naves, more details here. And if you stay a bit longer you can start to code your own game in Godot in the next hours. (/PS: When ready, feel free to add it to F-Droid and join the other dozen Godot games) ArcaneChat and Delta Chat were updated to 1.54.0. If you want to dig deeper under their skin to see what makes them tick, you can read about the RIIR (rewrite it in Rust) adventure in the new “From C- to JSON-based APIs of the Rust “core” library” post. Emacs was updated to 30.0.93, with dependencies required to render SVG and other raster and vector image formats, initiate TLS connections, shape Indic and Arabic text, and load tree-sitter grammar libraries. The description has also been revised hopefully to create less confusion. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed Freenet mobile: Access Freenet from the palm of your hand Icicle for Freenet: Connect to your Freenet node Newly Added Apps 9 apps were newly added < polycule >: A geeky and efficient [matrix] client for power users CLT 2025 Schedule: Conference schedule for the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage (CLT) MarketMonk: Track stocks in style! MBCompass: Simple and efficient compass Mempal: A Bitcoin mempool monitoring and notification app for Android Nov Open Reader: Simple application to read content of Novopen insulin pens using NFC NowiPass: A password manager where you are the only one who has access to your passwords QED: Unofficial frontend for the web services of the QED e.V. traced it: Quick notes with time & amounts Downgraded Apps 1 app was downgraded LibreSudoku was downgraded from 2.0.1 to 1.5.0, pending some upstream changes. Updated Apps 90 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.6a AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.846 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.1.1 APatch was updated to 11039 Apollo was updated to 1.6.1 aTalk was updated to 4.2.0 baresip was updated to 63.3.0 baresip+ was updated to 50.3.0 Better Schedule (Bakaláři) was updated to 2.0-rc5 Bunny Media Editor was updated to 5.0 CaptureSposed was updated to 1.0.6 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.6.Meta Custom Uploader was updated to 1.4.1 DigiPaws - Digital Wellbeing and App Blocker was updated to 1.9-alpha-lite Drawpile was updated to 2.2.2-beta.5 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.9.3 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.327.202502140 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.97 Everyday Tasks was updated to 1.7.4 FakeTraveler was updated to 1.9.2 FitBook was updated to 1.0.103 Flexify was updated to 2.0.5 Foto Timer was updated to 1.3.0 Grit was updated to 1.6.0 i2pd was updated to 2.56.0 ICSx⁵ was updated to 2.2.7 Immich was updated to 1.126.1 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.3.3 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.8.1 Jami was updated to 20250207-03 Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered was updated to 2.0.1 Kazumi was updated to 1.5.6 Key Mapper: Unleash your keys! was updated to 2.8.0 KitchenOwl was updated to 0.6.10 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.1.10 Mancala was updated to 1.1 mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher was updated to 1.7.1 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.5+free Nextcloud was updated to 3.31.0 RC2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250213 Nextcloud Tables was updated to 2.0.5 NFCMessageBoard was updated to 4.0 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.31 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.84 Openreads was updated to 2.9.0 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.17.8irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.17.8 OpenVPN for Android was updated to 0.7.55 ownCloud was updated to 4.5.0-beta.1 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.7.0 Petals was updated to 3.35.4 Pocket Broomball was updated to 6.1.0 Polaris was updated to 0.10.2 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-77-fdroid ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.8.58.2 qBitController was updated to 1.1.1 QRAlarm was updated to 2.5.1 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.48.2-fdroid Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125020411-github Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.12.8 Roboyard was updated to 17 SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.8.0-ex_25_2_0 SDAI FOSS was updated to 0.6.7 Seafile was updated to 3.0.8 Seamless was updated to 1.4 SherpaTTS was updated to 1.4 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.0.16 sing-box was updated to 1.11.3 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.22 SkyTube was updated to 2.994 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.994 sms2call was updated to 1.0.11 Snapdrop & PairDrop for Android was updated to 2.3.1 Tarnhelm was updated to 1.7.1 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.19 Transistor - Simple Radio App was updated to 4.2.3 Trigger was updated to 4.0.5 Tuta Calendar was updated to 267.250206.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 267.250206.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.11 Vacation Days was updated to 11.0 venera was updated to 1.2.5 VES - Image and Photo Compare was updated to 2.2.9 Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to 2.0.0 Whisper was updated to 2.2 Windscribe was updated to 3.81 XiVPN was updated to 1.3.0 Xray was updated to 9.1.0 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 2.1.0 Zulip was updated to 27.233 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Materialization of modern design (2025/02/13 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Feb 2025, Week 7 F-Droid core We’ve teased the new Material Design 3 UI client design update, and the feedback is as expected, from “I hate it”, through “I don’t care”, to “I like it”. This is work in progress but we’ve polished it internally for the last year, so it’s pretty close to being done. Yes, pure black theme is staying, but the bottom bar will be dark gray. No, we can’t keep the old design in parallel too. Yes, Basic is built from the same source so everything will apply as well. No, it does not cover all views just yet, some are custom and need more work to be updated. Yes, we don’t expect any performance hit, but this might depend on your device and its Android version. Building on this base, in the future, we can imagine adding Material You support too, for Android 12 and later devices, so you can make your own device wide pastel theme and love/hate it in private. If you can lend a hand to fix any urgent issues that you see, feel free to contact us. Community News Box Smasher, Shoot balls to smash boxes into the void!, has made the transition from a centralized store to F-Droid. Welcome! DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.2, previous two versions were missing some libs so if you had issues, update and retest. mLauncher - Minimal and Clutter Free launcher, Fork of Olauncher, +minimalization, +customizability is back and updated to version 1.7.0. Users rejoice! In more game news, Naija Ludo +, A Modern Twist on the Classic Board Game, is live too. It brings the classic board game of Ludo into the digital present. SherpaTTS made a splash last week on launch as users crowded to install it and use it. Update 1.3 is available now, fixing crashes and adding the most wanted feature: multiple languages. Video Diary, Record your life in one short video a day, brings the new concept of a short video journal for the future, in FOSS form, and privately. @shuvashish76 manages some apps: App Manager - Android package manager was updated to 4.0.0 with a long list of changes. And if you feel the need to dig deeper, you can read the 80 pages long app manual, it might take you about 3 hours to do that. Removed Apps 1 apps were removed LfDI BW: All news and communication channels of the LfDI BW in one place Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added CleanSlate: Protect your data anywhere anytime CuteMusic: A simple, lightweight and offline music player app (Description and app pics will come in the next version) Kazumi: An anime collection APP based on custom rules Logline - MovieApp: An Android Open Source Movie App OSS-Dict: Offline Dictionaries Password Generator: Free, ad-free, open-source simple password generator for Android Scale Practice: Scales and Arpeggios Working Time Account: Record working hours, generate and send reports (PDF, CSV and ICS) Updated Apps 174 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.6 Activity Manager was updated to 5.4.13 Alembicons was updated to 2025.02.00 Alovoa was updated to 2.0.0 Amber was updated to 3.2.1 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.841 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.1.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.52.2 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.3 BendyStraw was updated to 1.3.0 blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble1.1.1 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.5 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.6.0 BoltOn was updated to 10 Book’s Story was updated to 1.6.0 Boxcars was updated to 1.4.8 Breezy Weather was updated to 5.4.2_freenet Brume Wallet was updated to 0.7.537 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.02.1103 Cavity was updated to 1.8.0 Chance was updated to 1.6.1 Ciyue was updated to 1.3.0 Clauncher was updated to v5.2.4 Clock You was updated to 9.1 Conversations was updated to 2.17.10+free CTU Menza was updated to 1.4.2 Custom Uploader was updated to 1.4.0 DankChat was updated to 3.10.1 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.7-ose DNSNet was updated to 1.0.16 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.9.1 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.326.202502030 Eidetic was updated to 1.3.0 Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.30 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 25.02.0 Episodes was updated to 0.16.1 ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated to 1.9.3 EweSticker was updated to 20250209 Exclave was updated to 0.13.6 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.9 Feeder was updated to 2.9.0 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.66 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 135.0.0 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.11.0 Fintunes was updated to 2.4.4 FitBook was updated to 1.0.98 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2025.02.1 Flexify was updated to 2.0.4 Flip 2 DND was updated to 2.1.0 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.4.4 FluffyChat was updated to 1.24.0 Forkyz was updated to 61 FOSS Browser was updated to 18.1 FOSS Warn was updated to 0.8.1 Fossify SMS Messenger was updated to 1.1.5 FreeOTP was updated to 2.0.5 Frigoligo was updated to 2.3.0 Gallery was updated to 3.1.1 Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated to 1.35.0 Gauguin was updated to 0.34.1 Gcam Services Provider (Basic) was updated to 1.6.0 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.1.5 Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated to 2.1.2 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.18 HACS was updated to 2.23.0 hJOP Driver was updated to 1.19 Home App | For Philips Hue, Arduino & more was updated to 1.11.0 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.25.0 ImapNotes3 was updated to v1.4-04 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.3.1 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.7.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build103.0.1 Jami was updated to 20250207-02 JMdict droid was updated to 1.5 Journal was updated to 11.9 kardi notes | privacy matters was updated to 2.1.3 Kepler-App was updated to 2.10.1 KeyPass was updated to 1.4.36 KitchenOwl was updated to 0.6.9 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.19 Komelia was updated to 0.14.1 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.10 Kuaizi IME was updated to 3.0.4 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.10 Materialious was updated to 1.7.6 MedTimer was updated to 1.15.3 mensen was updated to 1.4.1 Micro REPL was updated to 1.9 MinCal Widget was updated to 2.18.1 Mines3D was updated to 1.7.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2025.02.07 Mumla was updated to 3.6.15 MusicSearch was updated to 1.14.0 Musify was updated to 9.0.6 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.5 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.1 NewPipe was updated to 0.27.6 NewsBlur - News reader was updated to 13.4.0 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250209 Nextcloud Tables was updated to 2.0.4 NextPush was updated to 2.1.4 NGA客户端开源版 was updated to 4.0.3 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.30 Notification Dictionary was updated to 0.0.24 NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.3.28 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.81 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.7 Open Alert Viewer was updated to 1.2.0 Open Ear was updated to 1.9.0 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.9 OpenAthena™ for Android was updated to 0.23.0 openHAB was updated to 3.17.2 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.17.3-beta OpenWrt Manager was updated to 1.37.0 Orgro was updated to 1.54.2 Outfield was updated to 5 P2Play - Peertube client was updated to 0.8.4 Pagan was updated to 1.6.12 Peristyle was updated to v7.0.4 Petals was updated to 3.35.3 Phase10Counter was updated to 3.2.0 Phocid was updated to 20250208 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.9.1 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.59 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.13 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.5.4 Polaris was updated to 0.10.2 PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to 3.4.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.5 QRshare was updated to 1.0.17 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.10+free Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.9 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.70 Roboyard was updated to 16.1 Rush was updated to 2.5.3 SchildiChat was updated to 1.6.30.sc85 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.12.1 SecureYourChats was updated to 10 ShockAlarm was updated to 0.0.15 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.25 Simple Time Tracker was updated to 1.48 sing-box was updated to 1.11.1 SocksTun was updated to 2.8 Sound Toggle was updated to 1.0.3 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.4 Spickerrr was updated to 2.2.1 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.26 Stay Put - Unplug Alert was updated to 0.8.2 Sunup was updated to 1.0.2 Super Productivity was updated to 11.1.3 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.3.7 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.4.8 Terminal Emulator was updated to 5.4.0/X TermuC was updated to 0.1.7 Todo Agenda was updated to 4.12.1 Translate You was updated to 12.0 Tubular was updated to 0.27.6 Tuta Calendar was updated to 266.250202.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 266.250202.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.9-patch1 UnitsTool was updated to 1.0.13 venera was updated to 1.2.4 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.24.2 Wall You was updated to 10.0 Welefon was updated to 1.6.1 Whisper was updated to 2.1 whoBIRD was updated to 3.8 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50519-r-2025-01-30 Xed-Editor was updated to 2.9.5 XiVPN was updated to 1.2.4 Xray was updated to 9.0.1 YacGuide Dev was updated to 20250209 Youamp was updated to 2.0.0-beta03 🌜 LunaTracker 🌛 was updated to 0.5 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Hearing your device speak (2025/02/06 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Feb 2025, Week 6 Community News From a prolific FOSS dev @woheller69 we now have another app, SherpaTTS, Text-to-Speech engine based on Next-gen Kaldi. We’ve complained before about the FOSS voice situation, that while RHVoice got some updates, it’s still limited to 8 natural voices, and the new eSpeak is great, supports many voices, but the robotic synthesized sounds are harder to tune and use. Out of the LLM gold rush we hope to extract some value for the end users too, and applying their magic here appears to give some really nice results. How good? SeeHear for yourself on the test page. After install and the download of your language of choice, don’t forget to go to Android Settings, System, Languages, Text-to-speech and select SherpaTTS as the preferred engine. Now your apps will use it to give you directions, like Organic Maps mentioned below and OsmAnd~, read text out-loud or even your notifications (via Voice Notify). On related apps, from the same developer even, do also try Whisper (Voice recognition speech to text: you don’t type, you just talk and magically the text appears on screen) and Seamless (After talking, the text is translated to another language). Organic Maps: Hike, Bike, Drive Offline, was updated to 2025.01.26-9-FDroid. In the past we had our share of long philosophical discussions with the OM app team, say about newly added ‘features’, and about the nature of Ads but it all ended well enough from our point of view. The latest version improves upon all these, map features aside, as it fixes two of the pain points that had the app flagged with anti-features more than one year ago. The added Kayak hotel links are now a setting users need to enable if they want and the CDN servers that serve your maps finally run FOSS software. Tubular, A free lightweight YouTube front-end, is newly added. It’s a fork of NewPipe which brings support for SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike features and more. Newly Added Apps 8 more apps were newly added Dumpsys Packages Copycat: Provides a detailed summary of all installed packages Eidetic: A simple Android app that helps you improve your working memory Encrypt-Decrypt-AndroidAPK: Encrypt / Decrypt APK , with AES 256 GCM/DES Open Alert Viewer: Fetch and display server alerts ShockAlarm: Material 3 app for controlling OpenShock shockers sms2call: Make a call when receiving a defined SMS SoundRemote: Listen to audio from your PC and control it from your phone TheXTech: 2D-platformer game engine Updated Apps 142 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Activity Manager was updated to 5.4.12 addy.io was updated to v5.5.0 Alembicons was updated to 2025.01.02 Amarok was updated to 0.9.3 Amber was updated to 3.2.0 AnLinux was updated to 6.65 Stable ArcaneChat was updated to 1.52.1 Arcticons was updated to 12.2.0 Arcticons Black was updated to 12.2.0 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 12.2.0 Arcticons Material You was updated to 12.2.0 Arx Libertatis was updated to 1.3.5.3 baresip was updated to 63.2.5 baresip+ was updated to 50.2.4 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.24 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.24 Bura was updated to 1.7.0 Canta was updated to 2.4.0 Celestia was updated to 1.7.11 Cifras o letras was updated to 1.3.1 Ciyue was updated to 1.2.0 Clauncher was updated to v5.2.2 Clipious was updated to 1.22.7 CodeCatcher was updated to 1.0.131 DanXi was updated to 1.4.7 Delta Chat was updated to 1.52.1 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 2.0.0 Dollphone Icon Pack was updated to 1.1.4-hotfix2 Drinkable was updated to 1.56.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.224.0 Emotic was updated to 0.1.7 Endless Sky was updated to 0.10.11-47 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.7.0 Ente Auth was updated to 4.3.2 ETH & UZH canteens Zürich was updated to 1.9.2 Every Door was updated to 5.4.0 FairEmail was updated to 1.2262 Fintunes was updated to 2.4.3 FitBook was updated to 1.0.91 Forkgram was updated to 11.7.1.0 FOSDEM 2025 Schedule was updated to 1.69.1-FOSDEM-Edition FOSS Browser was updated to 18 GCompris was updated to 25.0 Geo Share was updated to 3.1.0 GNU Taler Point-of-Sale was updated to 0.2.9 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.1.4 Habit-Maker was updated to 0.0.15 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.14 I2P was updated to 2.7.1 Immich was updated to 1.125.6 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.7.1 Journal was updated to 11.7 Kanji Dojo was updated to 2.1.5 KeePassVault was updated to 1.12.0 Kepler-App was updated to 2.10.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.18 knkpanime was updated to 1.1.7 Kuaizi IME was updated to 3.0.2 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.03 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.1.9 LibreTube was updated to 0.27.0 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.8 Material Notes was updated to 1.12.1 Mill was updated to 5.9.1 MoeMemos was updated to 0.8.4 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2025.01.31 MPD was updated to 0.23.17 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.4 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.5.0 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.5 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250131 Nextcloud Tables was updated to 2.0.2 NextGIS Mobile was updated to 2.9.1 NextPush was updated to 2.1.3 NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.5.3 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 7.0.0 NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.3.26 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.40 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.6 openHAB was updated to 3.17.1 Openreads was updated to 2.8.0 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.36 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.5 P2Play - Peertube client was updated to 0.8.3 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.9.2 Petals was updated to 3.35.2 Phocid was updated to 20250130 Photok was updated to 1.8.0 Pixelix was updated to 3.4.0 Pixiv for Muzei 3 was updated to 3.8.0 Play NotePad was updated to 1.3.7 plees-tracker was updated to 25.2 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.3.2 Polaris was updated to 0.10.0 Prayer Book was updated to 0.7.1 Privacy Browser was updated to 3.19.3 QRAlarm was updated to 2.4.2 QRshare was updated to 1.0.16 QuickWeather was updated to 2.7.6 Quillpad was updated to 1.4.23 Quote Unquote was updated to 4.48.1-fdroid Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.7 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125010291-github RiMusic was updated to 0.6.69 Sapio was updated to 1.6.6 ScanBridge was updated to 1.1.0 sing-box was updated to 1.11.0 SkyTube was updated to 2.993 SkyTube Legacy was updated to 2.993 SMASH — Smart Mobile App for Surveyor’s Happiness was updated to 1.9.5 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.3 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.25 Sunup was updated to 1.0.1 Table Habit was updated to 1.15.4 Tailscale was updated to 1.80.0-t4f4686503-gb1405a1d1 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.14.3 Tarnhelm was updated to 1.7.0 Tarock Palčka was updated to 1.0.7 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.4.6 The Life was updated to 1.30.0 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.27 Todo was updated to 1.5.3 Traditional T9 was updated to 44.0 trale was updated to 0.9.1 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.9 Tuta Calendar was updated to 261.250116.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 266.250131.0 Twili Recipes was updated to 0.2.3 Unciv was updated to 4.15.7 venera was updated to 1.2.3 Vespucci was updated to 20.2.3.0 VoIP.ms SMS was updated to 0.6.32-fdroid Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.24.0 Weather Forecast was updated to 1.7.3 Weechat-Android was updated to 1.10 Welefon was updated to 1.6.0 WhatSave was updated to 2.0.0 (F-Droid) XiVPN was updated to 1.2.2 Xtra was updated to 2.41.2 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 2.0.0 µLauncher was updated to 0.0.21 聚在工大 was updated to 4.13.4.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant (2025/02/05 00:00)
We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded $396,044 from the Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Fund. This grant is specifically designed to support free and open-source software (FOSS) projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges, and we are honored to be among the recipients. As F-Droid’s user base and community of volunteer contributors has grown, so have the challenges of maintaining and expanding the project. While our lightweight, resilient architecture has scaled to meet increasing demand, we now face critical issues that dedicated and consistent funding will help us address so we can continue to bring FOSS-based, privacy focused apps to people around the world, even in places with limited internet access. This OTF funding will help us: Refactor and integrate code with other maintained projects to reduce technical debt and improve efficiency. Establish clear policies and legal strategies for handling government take-down and censorship requests. Improve our localization workflows to make translations easier to manage and maintain. Strengthen our donation infrastructure so we can sustain F-Droid long-term. Enhance our hosting and infrastructure to increase flexibility, reduce costs, and ensure reliability. This grant represents a major step forward in ensuring F-Droid’s long-term sustainability. We look forward to sharing progress as we work on these improvements. You can follow our progress here: Related issues Related merge requests A big thank you goes to the Open Technology Fund for supporting open-source infrastructure and helping projects like ours continue to thrive!
Refresh your home-screen (2025/01/30 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Jan 2025, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 1.22.0 stable, but not yet ‘suggested’. If you’ve missed the quick alpha version you can read the list of changes. Current changelog since the alpha is short: automatically add newly installed apps to home-screen for most launchers (Thanks Dhina!) disable gentle app updates again because of update issues (Find out why here) some bug fixes As usual we ask brave users to test this release and offer feedback as soon as possible. How to install this release? In F-Droid Client, on its own page, either scroll down, expand Versions and install the latest, or in the upper right menu choose “Allow Beta updates”. Community News Does IOCipher ring any bells for you as a developer? If so, you’d be informed that @Zoff, the developer behind Trifa - Tox Client, has picked up maintaining a fork of IOCipher and updated to version 1.0. You’ll have to adapt your code a bit so do read about this community reboot here. Delta Chat and ArcaneChat were updated to 1.52.0, with fixes all around. That aside, their push of Webxdc is getting more traction, across protocols and with many more apps for users to drop in their chats. Were you rehearsing your elevator pitch for the moment you see a VC going up? Maybe you need to cross out some of those app ideas as Webdxc might replace billionairish platforms with ZIP files. Dolphin Emulator was updated to 2412, and you can read about all the new goodies while it installs. Oh, wait, I lied, Release 2407 and 2409 notes will take you at least 30 minutes, and you might need to grab a beverage as Release 2412 notes will need 40 more. KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.11, and maybe you should keep an eye on any popups about the update being blocked, as some reported this week and last week. NewPipe was updated to 0.27.5, fixing one of the recent issues with Youtube, the other issue that stops videos at 59 seconds is work in progress. Tarnhelm version 1.6.6 was rebuilt, to fix an issue with Xposed API, so now it’s missing for one cycle but it will come back in the next one along with the next version. @linsui transfers our words: CatShare, App for Mutual Transmission Alliance, was just added. Do you have a phone made in China which comes with a convenient file transfer function? Some phones made in China support Mutual Transmission Alliance in the stock ROM but this function is not available in FOSS ROMs such as LineageOS. CatShare is a FOSS implementation of Mutual Transmission Alliance protocol. Now you can transfer files between any ROM with Mutual Transmission Alliance protocol thanks to the power of FOSS. Ciyue was updated to 1.0.0, bringing multiple dictionaries support. The external storage permission is removed, therefore when upgrading from old versions the dicts won’t work anymore. Please clear the data and import them again. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed as announced last week Podcini.R - Podcast instrument: Modern, feature-rich, capable of handling Youtube and YT Music contents VPN Hotspot: tethering/Wi-Fi repeater Newly Added Apps 4 more apps were newly added Habit-Maker: A reward-based habit tracker PiPixiv: Third-party Pixiv Client StyncyNotes: Sticky Notes app for Android that understands the linuxmint/sticky note file for Valentin’s PowerTools #023 - MemorizeYourClassics: Memorize poems, songs, etc. with this nice poem viewer Updated Apps 145 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) Amber was updated to 3.1.9 APM was updated to 3.2.4 Audile was updated to 1.7.3 baresip was updated to 63.2.3 baresip+ was updated to 50.2.3 Better Schedule (Bakaláři) was updated to 2.0-rc4 Bimba was updated to 3.8.0 BLE Radar was updated to 0.27.3-beta Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.3.0 Blood pressure monitor was updated to 1.8.4 Blue Line Console was updated to 1.2.22 Bluetooth LE Spam was updated to 1.0.9 Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to 0.3.1 BookWyrm was updated to 1.3.8 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.536 BTC Map was updated to 0.9.2 Calorimeter was updated to 1.1.0 Canta was updated to 2.3.1 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.01.1097 ccgt was updated to 1.51 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.16.0 Cheogram was updated to 2.17.2-4+free Chip Defense was updated to 1.52 Citrine was updated to 0.7.1 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.5.Meta Conversations was updated to 2.17.9+free Coordinate Joker was updated to 1.4.40 CTU Menza was updated to 1.4.1 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.6-ose DCC++Throttle was updated to 1.2 DigiPaws - Digital Wellbeing and App Blocker was updated to 1.7-alpha-lite DPC was updated to 1.7.0 Droid Pad was updated to 1.10.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.325.202501250 Emotic was updated to 0.1.6 Ente Auth was updated to 4.3.1 Exclave was updated to 0.13.5 FairEmail was updated to 1.2260 FastLyrics was updated to 0.6.2 Finamp was updated to 0.6.27 Flexify was updated to 1.1.99 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.4.3 FOSDEM Companion was updated to 2.2.9 Fossify Calendar was updated to 1.2.0 Fossify SMS Messenger was updated to 1.1.4 Gauguin was updated to 0.34.0 Geo Share was updated to 3.0.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.9 GitNex for Forgejo and Gitea was updated to 7.0.0 gpsdRelay was updated to 2.0 Graded - Grade tracker was updated to 2.7.3 Grit was updated to 1.5.0 HACS was updated to 2.22.0 Harmony Music was updated to 1.11.0 Home Medkit was updated to 1.7.0-beta HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.24.0 IED was updated to Your Way +2 Immich was updated to 1.125.3 IVPN - Secure VPN for Privacy was updated to 2.10.11 Jami was updated to 20250123-01 JMP SIM Manager was updated to jmp-v1.2.1 Key Mapper GUI Keyboard was updated to 1.4.6 KeyPass was updated to 1.4.34 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.17 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.9 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.02 Libre Memory Game was updated to 1.1.0 LibreTorrent was updated to 3.6 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.2 Local NLP Backend was updated to 1.2.14 Lotus was updated to 1.2.0 MedTimer was updated to 1.15.2 Meshenger was updated to 4.4.3 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2025.01.24 MonsterMusic was updated to 0.1.44 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.25.4a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.25.4a Musify was updated to 9.0.5 Neo Store was updated to 1.0.6 Nextcloud was updated to 3.31.0 RC1 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250127 Nextcloud Tables was updated to 2.0.1 Nextcloud Talk was updated to 20.1.1 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.4.9 NextPush was updated to 2.0.1 NFC Alarm Clock was updated to 12.5.1 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.27 NOVA Video Player was updated to 6.3.21 Odin was updated to 3.4.8 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.78 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.3 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.6 OpenBible was updated to 1.5.2 OpenCalc was updated to 3.1.4 openHAB was updated to 3.17.0 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.17.7irreproducible OpenTracks (Reproducible build) was updated to v4.17.7 Orgro was updated to 1.53.2 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.4 OSM Dashboard (Offline) was updated to 6.1.0 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 6.1.0 P2Play - Peertube client was updated to 0.8.2 Pagan was updated to 1.6.11 Page was updated to 1.2 PDF Wallet was updated to 4.3.0 Peristyle was updated to v7.0.0 Phocid was updated to 20250124 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.2 Pixelix was updated to 3.3.0 Podcini.X - Podcast instrument was updated to 8.2.1 ProseReader was updated to 1.1.0 QRshare was updated to 1.0.14 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.9+free Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125010241-github Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.12.7 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.68 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.7 Sapio was updated to 1.6.4 SDAI FOSS was updated to 0.6.6 Seamless was updated to 1.3 Sky Map was updated to 1.10.9 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.2 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.24 StoryGame was updated to 1.3.0 Sunup was updated to 0.2.2 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.4.5 The Light was updated to 3.90 Thor was updated to 1.7.5 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.17 TorrServe was updated to MatriX.135.2.F-Droid Tuta Mail was updated to 262.250122.0 Twili Recipes was updated to 0.2.2 Unciv was updated to 4.15.5 uNote | microNote was updated to 1.7.5 URLSanitizer was updated to 3.0.2 Valv was updated to 2.2.2 venera was updated to 1.2.1 Vertretungsplan.io - free substitution plan App was updated to 1.6.0 VoIP.ms SMS was updated to 0.6.29-fdroid wger Workout Manager was updated to 1.7.8 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50517-r-2025-01-21 Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to 1.3.3 yetCalc was updated to 2.0.6 Youamp was updated to 1.0.5 天使动漫 was updated to 1.1.1 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Seeking feedback on Community Council nominations, and a call for more (2025/01/27 00:00)
In an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and empowered community, the F-Droid Board put out a call for Community Council nominations and subsequent extension. This search yielded one nomination, that of Vishal Bakhai, aka vdbhb59 (Harry), who is an active moderator of the F-Droid forum and other channels. If you have any feedback about the nomination of Vishal, or feedback about the process of the Community Council, please email elections {at} f-droid {dot} org before 2025-02-18. We’ll also try to monitor other channels on a best effort basis. If you would like to nominate yourself or somebody else as a potential member of the Community Council, we welcome nominations via elections {at} f-droid {dot} org until the end of the feedback period on 2025-02-18.
Federated services made easier (2025/01/23 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 23 Jan 2025, Week 4 Community News Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.28, small fixes, yet big changes ahead. Last week we casually mentioned that Element users should test try other apps too, say like Element X or the fork SchildiChat Next, but we did so since we’ve seen what’s coming. The gist of it is that Element is being sunsetted and this version already is being impaired to force users to switch, as the app will “prevent creation of new accounts on server with MAS support, and redirect users to Element X”. Critics already pointed out that: “Element X is still very much incomplete, no support for spaces, no support for threads, and no support for validating other users”, so do shake these new clients thoroughly before jumping for good. We will add more news as we come across them. For now SchildiChat, the Element fork, will not block any in-app features, so users still have options. Emacs was updated to 30.0.93 as the first version that is specifically improved for Android. Potential users might shriek while reading the permissions list, and we’d like that pruned as much as possible too. FOSDEM 2025 is a week away, and after you finish reading about the billionaires future dramas at the conference, do check the updates for FOSDEM 2025 Schedule, now at 1.69.0-FOSDEM-Edition, and FOSDEM Companion at 2.2.8. When you reach FOSDEM do try to find us, we might have stickers! KDE Connect was updated to 1.32.10, and for a second we had a flash-back from October 2023 as we’ve seen this worrying report. We hope it’s just a glitch… PeerTube, Federated video platform, is finally here and built reproducible. We host several apps that might be considered 3-rd party PeerTube clients or Fediverse clients that can access it, but now we have the so called official app. There has never been a better time to embrace federated services, and it’s getting better. Still in federated news, Pixelix was updated to 3.2.1, did it replace your use of some big corporate siloed photo sharing site/app? Maybe take a look at it, as for a little while it was the best selling social network app in some other store. F-Droid offers it for free, but you can thank the developer on their Buy Me a Coffee donation page. And if you want to improve the app, there’s no easier way to contribute than translating it. Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 7.3.5 for one last time, as the developer stopped its work on the app. We guess the integration with some big video site from a known monopolist corporation is proving problematic, once again. But all is not lost, the developer will continue to work on the newly added Podcini.X - Podcast instrument, Modern, feature-rich, podcast instrument, app instead. VPN Hotspot, Tethering/Wi-Fi repeater, a new fork of the old VPN Hostspot app was added and since the old one has not been updated for a long time it will be archived soon. Do try this one and replace the vanishing one. Write On: Simple Notepad was updated to 1.2, yet you have it and you don’t see the update? Unfortunately the developer lost the key, no joke, bad things happen. Hence you’ll need to uninstall the app and reinstall the fresh one. /PS: We’ve updated the RSS link in the footer to point straight to the feed. While the plain link was useful for both browser users and feed apps users, not all RSS apps would pickup the feed correctly unfortunately. Now the link is for app use only. Removed Apps 2 apps were removed LibrePass: Take control of your passwords Mull: Privacy oriented web browser (Just.Get.Fennec!) Newly Added Apps 19 more apps were newly added AddictoLogs: Activity tracker for your bad habits bicyweather: A simple weather forecast for german cities DCC++Throttle: Application to drive DCC-EX command station via Bluetooth Droid Pad: Create control interfaces for BLE, WebSocket, MQTT, TCP, and UDP protocols ExHale: Track the time since you last smoked and see the progress you’ve made Kuaizi IME: Kuaizi IME is an efficient and fast Chinese Pinyin input method Lotus: Music player designed with Material You NFC Alarm Clock: Customizable and feature-rich alarm clock app Pocket ReadLex: Shavian spelling dictionary Praktika Vortaro: Offline Esperanto dictionary Round Sync - Rclone for Android: A file manager for Android, using rclone for the heavy lifting ScanBridge: Effortlessly scan documents, photos, and more with your network-enabled scanner Seemless: Offline speech to text translator (Note that the app will be renamed to Seamless in the next version) Stateful Speedometer: Stateful speedometer & GPS viewer Stay Put - Unplug Alert: Stay Put is an app that helps prevent casual theft of your device while charging Sunrise Signal: Morning wood tracker app for men’s health Sunup: UnifiedPush provider using Mozilla’s push server Todo: Offline, secure, To-Do app with encrypted storage, fingerprint lock 聚在工大: All-in-one school service app for Hefei University of Technology students Updated Apps 217 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 38C3 Schedule was updated to 1.69.0 AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.256+20250113.3575.02bcdf3a Aegis Authenticator was updated to 3.3.4 AirGuard - AirTag protection was updated to 2.4.0 AlexCalc was updated to 1.0.6 Alovoa was updated to 2.0.0 Amber was updated to 3.1.8 aShell was updated to v0.12 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.2 AVNC was updated to 2.7.1 BeeCount was updated to 2.7.2 BetterCounter was updated to 4.10.2 blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble1.1.0 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.3.0 Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to 0.3.0 Box, Box! was updated to 0.8.3 Broccoli: The Green Recipe App was updated to 1.3.1 BTC Map was updated to 0.9.1 Bura was updated to 1.6.1 Butterfly was updated to 2.2.4 Calculator You: Math & Units was updated to 3.1.2 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.01.1095 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.35 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.34.4 Chess was updated to 9.6.0 Chess Clock was updated to 1.2.2 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.11.2 Colorful was updated to 2.2 Commons was updated to 5.1.2 Coordinate Joker was updated to 1.4.39 CPU Info was updated to 6.1.1 Dart Checker was updated to 0.7.11 DataBackup was updated to 2.0.7 DeepL was updated to 8.8 Deku SMS was updated to 0.58.0 Dog sports diary was updated to 1.0.12 DPC was updated to 1.6.3 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.324.202501190 EinkBro was updated to 14.3.0 Energize was updated to 0.12.1 Ente Auth was updated to 4.2.8 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.81 Exclave was updated to 0.13.3 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.8 FairEmail was updated to 1.2259 Feeder was updated to 2.8.1 Find My Device (FMD) was updated to 0.10.0 Flip 2 DND was updated to 1.1.1 FlorisBoard was updated to 0.4.5 Forkgram was updated to 11.5.6.0 Fossify Phone was updated to 1.3.1 Fossify Voice Recorder was updated to 1.1.3 Frigoligo was updated to 2.2.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.8 Giggity was updated to 2.1.4 Grit was updated to 1.4.0 HACS was updated to 2.21.0 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.13 hEARtest was updated to 2.0 HeliBoard was updated to 2.3 HexViewer was updated to 1.57 HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated to 3.23.0 Hydra was updated to 3.7.4-open ICSx⁵ was updated to 2.2.6 IED was updated to Your Way +1 InfiniList was updated to 1.3.0 Inflation Calculator was updated to 2.18 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.3.0 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.7.0 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build103.0.0 InviZible Pro: increase your security, protect you was updated to 7.0.0 Ion Launcher was updated to y25-v1 Jami was updated to 20250117-01 Joplin was updated to 3.2.7 Journal was updated to 11.6 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.10.00.ose Keep it up was updated to 1.6.2 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.16 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.2.2 Komelia was updated to 0.13.0 Kotatsu was updated to 8.0-a1 LabNex for GitLab was updated to 3.0.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.3.0-beta.1 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.1 Logger was updated to 2.8.3 Material Notes was updated to 1.12.0 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.24.1 MAXS Main was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module AlarmSet was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Bluetooth was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module BluetoothAdmin was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Clipboard was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module ContactsRead was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module FileRead was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module FileWrite was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module LocationFine was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Misc was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module NFC was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Notification was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module PhonestateRead was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Ringermode was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module Shell was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module SmsNotify was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module SmsRead was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module SmsSend was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module SmsWrite was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module WifiAccess was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Module WifiChange was updated to 0.5.19 MAXS Transport XMPP was updated to 0.5.19 MediLog was updated to 3.1.2 MedTimer was updated to 1.15.1 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.16 Mill was updated to 5.9.0 Mindful Attention Awareness Scale was updated to 1.0.7 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2025.01.14 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.4+free Musekit was updated to 2.1.1 MyHackerspace (New) was updated to 2.2.0 NanoLedger was updated to 1.1.0 Network Survey was updated to 1.32 News Reader was updated to 1.0.9 Next Player was updated to 0.13.0 Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.8 Nextcloud Cookbook was updated to 0.24.0 Nextcloud Deck was updated to 1.24.5 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250121 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.4.1 NFSee - NFC Card Helper was updated to 2.4.0 NLWeer was updated to 1.10.3 Notally | Minimalist Notes was updated to 6.0 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 6.4.1 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.39 Odin was updated to 3.4.7 Offi was updated to 13.0.10 OGN AR Viewer was updated to 1.0.6 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.3.0 OONI Probe was updated to 4.0.2 Open Food Facts was updated to 4.18.1 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.5 OpenCalc was updated to 3.1.2 OpenMensa was updated to 2.0.0 OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.17.6irreproducible Orgro was updated to 1.52.3 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.35 OSM Dashboard (Offline) was updated to 6.0.0 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 6.0.0 Paseo was updated to 1.6.5 Peristyle was updated to v6.4.0 Petals was updated to 3.34.1 Phocid was updated to 20250120 Phonograph Plus was updated to 1.9.0 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.12 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.23.0 Planes Android was updated to 0.4.4.1 Plexus was updated to 2.1.0 PocketTRacker was updated to 2.2.4 PodAura was updated to 3.0 Polaris was updated to 0.9.6 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-76-fdroid Privacy Browser was updated to 3.19.2 PySolFC was updated to 3.2.0 QR Scanner (PFA) was updated to 4.6.7 QRAlarm was updated to 2.4.1 QRshare was updated to 1.0.11 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.6 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125010201-github Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.6 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.67 Rush was updated to 2.4.4 Sapio was updated to 1.6.3 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.3.6-rc0 Share 2 Archive Today was updated to 3.0 SimpleMarkdown was updated to 2025.1.0-free SimpleTextEditor was updated to 1.26.5 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.2.4 sing-box was updated to 1.10.7 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.20 sNotz was updated to v0.33 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.1 Status: Social Crypto Wallet was updated to 2.32.0 StreetComplete was updated to 60.1 Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to 1.4.2 Sudoku (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 3.2.3 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.3.5 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.29.2.0 Tasks.org: Open-source To-Do Lists & Reminders was updated to 14.4.3 Termux:Widget was updated to 0.14.0 The Light was updated to 3.89 The One App was updated to 3.1.1 Thor was updated to 1.7.4 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.16 Tickmate was updated to 1.4.15 Todo Agenda was updated to 4.11.1 TorrServe was updated to MatriX.135.1.F-Droid TRIfA was updated to 1.0.246 Trigger was updated to 4.0.4 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.8 Tusky was updated to 27.2 Tuta Mail was updated to 259.250113.0 Twili Recipes was updated to 0.2.0 Unciv was updated to 4.15.3 URLCheck was updated to 3.1 URLSanitizer was updated to 3.0.1 venera was updated to 1.2.0 Vidya Music: Aersia VIP Player was updated to 1.5.0b Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.23.2 Whisper was updated to 2.0 WiFi Widget was updated to 1.6.4 Wire • Secure Messenger was updated to 4.10.0 Xed-Editor was updated to 2.9.3 Xray was updated to 9.0.0 Xtra was updated to 2.41.0 YAACC was updated to 4.3.1 Youamp was updated to 1.0.4 zSMTH was updated to 24.12.27 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.20 天使动漫 was updated to 1.1.0 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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A Look Back at 2024: F-Droid's Progress and What’s Coming in 2025 (2025/01/21 00:00)
With 2024 now behind us, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the growth and achievements we accomplished as a community last year, and celebrate the incredible support we received from the FOSS community throughout the journey. This year has been a milestone for us, with significant strides in decentralizing app distribution, expanding the F-Droid ecosystem, and solidifying our infrastructure. All of these advancements were made possible thanks to donations, grants, our volunteers and regular contributors. So thank you again to everyone who helped make 2024 another great year for F-Droid. Now let’s take a closer look at what we accomplished. A Review of Key Accomplishments in 2024 Decentralizing App Distribution: A Core Focus One of the most important initiatives we worked on in 2024 was the continued development of our app decentralization efforts. Our aim is to make F-Droid a more robust and accessible platform, making further in-roads into the hold Big Tech currently has on app distribution. Building on the work we started in 2022, as a part of the Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web grant, we continued to make substantial progress this year in providing developers and end-users with more options to distribute their apps through a decentralized, equitable and privacy-oriented process. The goal for this project is to enable individuals and organizations to mirror and distribute F-Droid apps in a community-driven fashion, reducing reliance on centralized services. This work ties into a larger vision of creating a truly open-source ecosystem for Android apps that is not governed by proprietary companies. In 2024 we completed the following infrastructure upgrades: Broke out and overhauled core client logic around publishing and consuming repositories. Made client logic into libraries to make it easy to embed repositories in any app that needs it. Added support for mirroring repositories onto both IPFS and Filecoin. Added support in F-Droid client to use mirrors and repositories hosted on IPFS and Filecoin. Improved F-Droid client “whitelabel builds”. Enhanced F-Droid client’s existing “nearby” and “app swap” capabilities. Updated F-Droid’s Repomaker tool (for easy “point and click” curation and publishing of app repos) and add support for IPFS publishing. Supported iOS apps and progressive web apps (PWA) as packages that can be shipped via repositories. 2024 marked the end of this grant period, however the tools, features and policies established within the scope of the grant, will continue to be developed thanks to donations and other funders who are committed to further decentralizing app distribution. Expanding the F-Droid Ecosystem: Repomaker and Mobifree Another key project we started in 2024 was the further exploration and expansion of tools within the F-Droid ecosystem. Thanks to a major grant from EU Horizon Europe, we were able to deepen our focus on tools like Repomaker, which helps developers create their own F-Droid-compatible repositories. This tool is crucial for maintaining and growing the diverse range of apps available on F-Droid, and its expansion will support more developers who wish to contribute to the platform. Mobifree is an initiative that aims to provide a free, open-source, and decentralized alternative to traditional mobile app stores. It focuses on the freedom of choice, privacy, and user empowerment. Our contributions to this project will help strengthen the ties between F-Droid and other decentralized app distribution systems, ensuring that we remain a key player in the future of open-source mobile software. Do you have your own project ideas for Mobifree? You can apply for up to 50,000€ from NLnet NGI Mobifree. We can help you apply, just reach out via the regular F-Droid channels. Key Contributions in 2024: User research to understand app developer distribution workflows, compensation models, index preferences and APK metadata. Built on existing Fastlane tooling to further automate the app package and upload the process to F-Droid. Repomaker feature development made the repo creation and distribution process easier for non-tech users, non-profit and humanitarian organizations. Created a central registry of all DAPPER compatible repos and API for app stores like Murena’s App Lounge to pull in compatible repos and further decentralize app distribution process. In 2025, we continue to contribute to the Mobifree project, getting our tools, apps and software ready for pilot testing this spring. From there, we will continue to improve the software based on user-testing feedback, ultimately making the tools available for the general public to use and enjoy. F-Droid Community Engagement None of this would be possible without the incredible contributions from the FOSS community. In 2024, we saw a substantial increase in the number of contributions to F-Droid. From bug fixes and app updates to new apps being added to the store, our community of developers, testers, and contributors have been pivotal in keeping F-Droid running smoothly. Here are some statistics that highlight the community’s impact this year: App Updates: Over 7205 app updates were made, keeping the app catalog fresh and secure. New Apps Added: We welcomed over 402 new apps to the F-Droid repository, further expanding the variety of open-source apps available to users. Archived Apps: 939 Apps were successfully archived. Packages per Hour: Approximately 2-3 packages were created every hour, without interruption. Between updated and new apps, F-Droid built apps over 7600 times. Since most modern apps are split per device architecture, this means that each app version required multiple packages to be built, sometimes up to 4 packages for each app version. This increases the real number of builds by 2.5-3x. Putting it all together, that would equal between 2-3 packages created per hour, without interruption in 2024. These numbers are a reflection of the dedication and passion of the F-Droid community. We are immensely grateful for each and every contributor who made these achievements possible. Looking Ahead in 2025 New Team Members and Big Plans for 2025 As we look forward to 2025, we are excited to announce two key additions to the F-Droid team who will help us scale our efforts in the coming year. Hailey Still has joined us as a new project manager and UX designer. Hailey brings a diverse background of experience in managing complex projects and designing user-friendly and intuitive interfaces. Her expertise will continue to be instrumental in helping us secure new grant opportunities, streamline our operations and improve the user experience tools we work on. We are also pleased to welcome Nzambi Kakusu as our new grant administrator. Nzambi will play a crucial role in helping us secure and manage funding for F-Droid’s continued development. With her experience in grant management, Nzambi will help ensure that we can continue to sustain and grow the project in a way that aligns with our mission and values. OTF Grant and Infrastructure Work In 2025 we are thrilled to begin working on a grant funded by the Open Technology Fund. This grant will help us maintain F-Droid and focus on critical infrastructure work that was often overlooked, due to lack of consistent funding in the past. We’ll be working on improving the resilience and security of our systems, ensuring that F-Droid continues to serve as a reliable, open-source app distribution platform for years to come. There will be an official announcement article coming soon. To Wrap it Up As we continue to grow and evolve, we are committed to our mission of decentralizing app distribution, expanding the F-Droid ecosystem, and empowering users with open-source alternatives to proprietary software. With the support of our community, our volunteers, and our new team members, we are excited for what 2025 will bring. Thank you for being part of the F-Droid journey! We look forward to an exciting year ahead, and we invite you to continue supporting F-Droid through contributions, donations, and spreading the word about our mission. Let’s make 2025 another year of progress for the open-source community!
Stop mulling, get Fennec (2025/01/16 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 16 Jan 2025, Week 3 Community News Fennec F-Droid was updated to 134.0.0, and we urge users that still use Mull to switch. We’ve been announcing this for the last 3 TWIFs, we’ve added a warning in the last cycle that you’ll see in the Updates tab and we marked the app for archival in the next index update. If you’ve been using the DivestOS repo, either by will or by running DivestOS Android on your device, the same advice applies even if, for now, that repo does not warn you about this. Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered, (18+) A fan-made modernization of the classic visual novel, was added one year ago and back then we were amazed of its size. The app just got a huge assets update and also changed its application ID. The new app is Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered (yes it’s the same name adding to the confusion) and it’s now even bigger, weighting at 1GB (you read it correct, gigabyte!). The size comes from using the archive of the original developers which contained all assets including photo pictures of backgrounds with nicely preserved metadata. The devs spent most of the year with two artists drawing and formatting these 4:3 CGs to be used with current modern widescreen resolutions. Going forward, users that have it installed need to uninstall the old version and install the new one. RetroArch was updated to 1.20.0 fixing an old pain point in the initial setup. Previously users would have needed to jump through the hoops in Online Updater, digging through 5 menus, to first download a list of assets and then be able to access them. Latest version packs an updated UI which will download everything needed in the first menu as expected. Syncthing, Open, trustworthy and decentralized file synchronization, has been finally archived, as announced back in October ‘24, just in time for a new Syncthing-Fork update to 1.29.0.0. Still waiting to switch? WG Tunnel, An alternative VPN client app for WireGuard with additional features, is now built reproducible, hence users will need to uninstall the old version and install the latest one. Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50515-r-2024-12-16. In related news, the app team released a new study based on the behavior of its users. You can read a summary of it in “Wikipedia Searches Reveal Differing Styles of Curiosity” and the full paper here: “Architectural styles of curiosity in global Wikipedia mobile app readership”. Concerned users brought up this study as an issue since “the team tracked more than 482,000 people using Wikipedia’s mobile app in 50 countries or territories and 14 languages”, which sounds like a grave privacy invasion. We want to remind you that until last year or so, the app was rightfully flagged with the Tracking anti-feature as users were unable to disable the in-app analytics. Since then, as far as we know, tracking was removed from the app. Remember: the anti-features flags are there to inform the users, not to punish the developers. @linsui puts elements together: Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.26 with the fix for an annoying bug that made replies from bridges not visible. It’s not marked as suggested yet so, if you want to get this version, please update manually or enable “beta updates” for it. In related apps, did you test Element X yet? NClientV2 was rebuilt to fix the API compatibility. A rebuild will not pop-up as an update and you can’t update to the rebuild version from the F-Droid Client directly but you can install the APK, from the app page linked above, without uninstalling the broken version. Also of note, it seems this project has been discontinued so it’s unlikely to get any future updates. Removed Apps 3 more apps were removed Launcher3: Home screen Music: The stock audio player SafePrice: check SafeCoin price from notification bar Newly Added Apps 9 more apps were newly added knkpanime: Anime app with multiple source and danmaku support Musekit: A simple tuner and metronome, no distractions Pixelix: A user-friendly Pixelfed client for photo uploads, browsing, & sharing QRshare: Generate QR codes on share intent ssrDroid: OverTLS & SSRoT Android client TerraTactician Expandoria: Hexagon based logic game Valet: The Bitcoin Lightning Wallet with Extra Features venera: A comic reader that support reading local and network comics. Weather: Cool and Hot: Another weather app Updated Apps 180 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) AAAAXY was updated to 1.5.250+20250106.3569.dc794da9 addy.io was updated to v5.4.3 Alembicons was updated to 2025.01.01 Amber was updated to 3.1.7 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.840 AndrOBD was updated to V2.6.14 AntennaPod was updated to 3.6.1 AppListBackup was updated to 1.0.5 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.50.8 Audio Share was updated to 0.3.2 Aurora Store was updated to 4.6.4 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.1 BeeCount was updated to 2.7.1 BitBanana was updated to 0.8.9 Blue Line Console was updated to 1.2.21 Blue Square Speedometer was updated to 0.1.7 BookWyrm was updated to 1.3.6 BVD was updated to 2.1.5.foss Calculator You: Math & Units was updated to 3.1.1 Calorimeter was updated to 1.0.5 Cams was updated to 2.4.1 Cardabase was updated to 1.2.0 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 21.5 Chip Defense was updated to 1.51 Chrono was updated to 0.6.0 Citrine was updated to 0.7.0 Clauncher was updated to v5.1.4 Conversations was updated to 2.17.8+free Coordinate Joker was updated to 1.4.37 Counter was updated to 34 Cuscon was updated to 4.0.4.5 DanXi was updated to 1.4.6 DataBackup was updated to 2.0.6_1 Deku SMS was updated to 0.57.0 Delta Chat was updated to 1.50.5 Dicer (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.7.2 Discreet Launcher was updated to v7.7.1 Drinkable was updated to 1.55.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.222.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.322.202501110 Energize was updated to 0.12.0 EnforceDoze was updated to 1.6.2 Ente Auth was updated to 4.2.3 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.76 Exclave was updated to 0.13.2 Fabularium was updated to 1.5.1 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.7 FairEmail was updated to 1.2258 FastLyrics was updated to 0.6.1 Feeder was updated to 2.8.0 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.63 File Navigator was updated to 0.2.3 Finamp was updated to 0.6.26 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2025.01.1 Flexify was updated to 1.1.97 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.4.2 Forkyz was updated to 60 FOSS Warn was updated to 0.8.0 Fossify SMS Messenger was updated to 1.1.3 Fossify Voice Recorder was updated to 1.1.0 FTPClient was updated to 2.11.3 GPTMobile was updated to 0.6.3 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.1.3 Headphone indicator was updated to 1.1.1 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.11 Home Assistant was updated to 2025.1.2-minimal Home Medkit was updated to 1.6.3 ImapNotes3 was updated to v1.4-03 Immich was updated to 1.124.2 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build102.0.0 IYPS was updated to 1.5.4 Jami was updated to 20250107-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.18.4 JMdict droid was updated to 1.4 Joplin was updated to 3.2.5 Journal was updated to 11.4 Keep it up was updated to 1.6.1 KeePassVault was updated to 1.11.0 Kepler-App was updated to 2.9.2 Keysh was updated to 0.1.9 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.15.2 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.2.0 Kvaesitso was updated to 1.34.1-fdroid Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.01 Let Me Downgrade was updated to 1.0.6 Library App VideLibri was updated to 2.930 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.3.0-beta.0 LxReader was updated to 0.8.1 (fdroid) Mastodon was updated to 2.9.4 Material Notes was updated to 1.11.0 Mauth was updated to 0.9.0 MetaGer Search was updated to 5.1.9 MoasdaWiki App was updated to 3.9.3.0 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2025.01.10 Monly was updated to 2.14 Moshidon was updated to 2.3.0+fork.108.moshinda Musify was updated to 9.0.4 Myne: Download & Read eBooks was updated to 4.4.0 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.11 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.4.3 Nextcloud was updated to 3.30.7 Nextcloud Deck was updated to 1.24.3 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250111 NextDNS Manager was updated to 5.4.0 ntodotxt was updated to 0.12.2 NymVPN: Fast & Secure VPN was updated to v1.1.8 Odin was updated to 3.4.5 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.77 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.1.3 OPEN NGA was updated to v1.2.1 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.4 openHAB Beta was updated to 3.16.8-beta OpenStop was updated to 0.8.3 OpenTopoMap Viewer was updated to 1.21.1 Orgro was updated to 1.51.1 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.34 Pagan was updated to 1.6.9 Paseo was updated to 1.6.4 Petals was updated to 3.32.0 Phocid was updated to 20250107 PhotoChiotte was updated to 1.58 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.11 Planes Android was updated to 0.4.4 Play NotePad was updated to 1.3.6 Plexus was updated to 2.0.9 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 7.2.3 Poet Assistant was updated to 1.31.1 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.01-00-fdroid Privacy Browser was updated to 3.19.1 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.8.24.2 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.8+free Quillpad was updated to 1.4.22 Raccoon for Friendica was updated to 0.4.0 Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to 1.14.0 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.6 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 125010031-github RiMusic was updated to 0.6.66 Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated to 1.4.2 SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.7.6.sc20 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.11.4 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.3.4-rc2 Seafile was updated to 3.0.7 Shader Editor was updated to 2.35.0 Simple Crypto Widget was updated to 8.6.2 SimpMusic was updated to 0.2.8 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.19 Sobuu was updated to 1.2.0 Solon was updated to 2.4 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.22 SSTV Encoder was updated to 2.12 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.22 Sudoku (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 3.2.2 Super Productivity was updated to 11.1.2 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.3.3 Table Habit was updated to 1.15.3 The One App was updated to 3.1.0 Thor was updated to 1.7.2 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.14 To Don’t was updated to 4.0.0 Todo List (PFA) was updated to 3.1.0 Torchlight (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.3.3 Traditional T9 was updated to 43.0 Trail Sense was updated to 6.7.0 trale was updated to 0.9.0 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.244 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.7 Tuner was updated to 7.1.2 Tusky was updated to 27.1 Unciv was updated to 4.15.1 UnicodePad was updated to 2.16.0-fdroid Voice Notify was updated to 1.4.2 Wassword - Wonderful Password Generator was updated to 3.1.1 Weather Forecast was updated to 1.7.2 Whisper was updated to 1.8 WiFiAnalyzer was updated to 3.1.4 words.hk 粵典 was updated to 3.4.0 Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to 1.3.0 XiVPN was updated to 1.2.1 Yggdrasil was updated to 0.1-020 You Have Mail was updated to 0.19.0 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Gentle updates postponed (2025/01/09 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Jan 2025, Week 2 F-Droid core How is the new Client 1.22.0-alpha0 update working for you? Did you notice any updates that seem stuck? Brave testers did. We mentioned last week that the new “gentle update” API might be troublesome, and indeed both internal testing and your reports showed as much. Apps that cling to foreground services to be able to run and serve you continuously like an email app, a music player or even a keyboard app, will not be updated unless either force closed or (for the keyboard) deselected as an input method. It was decided to postpone the usage of this feature until we find a way to update such apps as well. What does this mean? Your music might stop for 2 seconds on update or your email client will restart. Might be annoying for a bit but it’s for a good cause. This change will come with a future alpha update and we will announce this then too. Community News If you can read Italian (or just use Fennecs translate feature), Enrico Zoia has prepared a new “Goodbye Big Tech: How to replace the most common apps on your smartphone with Open Source versions” article for you to start your year with. It takes just 10 minutes. Fossify Paint, Quick, easy and open source drawing app, is here and now we can archive the old Simple Draw Pro. Go ahead, switch! As mentioned in the last TWIF of 2024 the Privacy oriented web browser Mull has stopped development. As a new version of Firefox was released, and will be built in the next cycle, we marked Mull with the Known Vulnerability anti-feature to signal to users the need to switch to a currently developed browser instead. We recommend Fennec F-Droid. OpenTracks (Non-reproducible) was updated to v4.17.5irreproducible adding this new strange name. Why? Because we now also include OpenTracks (Reproducible build), A sport tracker buddy that respects your privacy, which is the same app but signed by the developer, and built and verified reproducible by F-Droid. If you want, you can switch to the reproducible version doing an export and import of your tracks. @linsui has the gist on proxies: Exclave, Proxy client, was just added, a fork of the discontinued SagerNet. As we mentioned in TWIF 9 of 2024, the author of SagerNet published sing-box as a successor of SagerNet. Sing-box is a great app, but many users prefer the design and rich features of SagerNet. @dyhkwong started Exclave as a fork of SagerNet and has added some more features to it. With dyhkwong’s help, Exclave is available in F-Droid now with reproducible builds! There are some plugins but they are not packaged for F-Droid. Please get them from upstream. Removed Apps 2 more apps were removed foodsharing: Share food instead of throwing it away! (API has evolved, a new app might be coming) Text Tools: Useful text related functions that can be done on the selected text Newly Added Apps 4 more apps were newly added BFBAN Assistants: Report players on your phone with mobile app for BFBAN NymVPN: Fast & Secure VPN: Download our VPN and make your online activity 100% private. Fast and anonymous. Whisper: Voice recognition based on Whisper 天使动漫: Thrid-party client for tsdm.love forum Updated Apps 235 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 3D Model Viewer was updated to 4.1.1 Acode editor - Android code editor was updated to 1.10.7 Aegis Authenticator was updated to 3.3.3 Aer - Fork of Anemo was updated to 2024.12.25 Alembicons was updated to 2024.12.02 Amber was updated to 3.0.7 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.835 AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to 2.20.1 ANOTHERpass was updated to 2.0.4 Arcticons was updated to 12.0.5 Arcticons Black was updated to 12.0.5 Arcticons Day & Night was updated to 12.0.5 Arcticons Material You was updated to 12.0.5 Arx Libertatis was updated to 1.3.5.2 Aurora Store was updated to 4.6.3 Ball2Box was updated to 4.1.6 Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.83.1-banglejs Barcode Scanner was updated to 1.25.0 baresip was updated to 63.1.0 baresip+ was updated to 50.1.0 BetterCounter was updated to 4.10.1 Bibleside was updated to 0.3.1-alpha BitBanana was updated to 0.8.8 Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated to 2.2.6 Bluetooth Remote was updated to 1.5.1 Book’s Story was updated to 1.5.0 Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to 0.2.0 Butterfly was updated to 2.2.3 c3nav was updated to 4.5.1 Calliope mini was updated to 2.0.5 Calorimeter was updated to 1.0.4 Capy Reader was updated to 2025.01.1089 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.30 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 21.4 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.34.2 Chaldea was updated to 2.5.18 Chance was updated to 1.5.0 ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to v0.15.0 Citrine was updated to 0.6.0 Ciyue was updated to 0.16.0 Clash Meta For Android was updated to 2.11.4.Meta Clauncher was updated to v5.1.3 Clipious was updated to 1.22.6 Commons was updated to 5.1.1 Conversations was updated to 2.17.7+free Converter NOW: Unit Converter was updated to 4.2.4 Counter was updated to 32 CrossWords was updated to 4.4.204 Cryptomator was updated to 1.10.4 Dahdidahdit - the Morse Trainer was updated to 1.13.1 DankChat was updated to 3.10.0 DAVx⁵ was updated to 4.4.5-ose Deku SMS was updated to 0.56.0 Delta Icon Pack was updated to 1.9.9 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.1 DigiPaws - Focus & Productivity was updated to 1.3-alpha-lite DNSNet was updated to 1.0.15 Droid-ify was updated to 0.6.4 Easter Eggs was updated to 3.3.0 Easy Diary was updated to 1.4.318.202412220 Easy Dice was updated to 1.9.1 Emotic was updated to 0.1.5 Energize was updated to 0.11.0 Ente Auth was updated to 4.2.2 EVIL SPIN!! was updated to 1.0.3 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.6 FairEmail was updated to 1.2256 Faraday was updated to 1.1.4 FeedFlow - RSS Reader was updated to 0.0.62 Flip 2 DND was updated to 1.1.0 FOSS Browser was updated to 17 Fossify Launcher was updated to 1.0.1 Fossify SMS Messenger was updated to 1.1.0 freeDictionaryApp was updated to 1.7.3 Fucks Given was updated to 1.0.6 Gadgetbridge was updated to 0.83.1 Geological Time Scale was updated to 0.7.0 Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.1b2 GPSLogger was updated to 133 GPSTest was updated to 3.10.5 Graded - Grade tracker was updated to 2.7.2 Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated to 3.7.0 Gugal was updated to 0.8.3 HACS was updated to 2.20.1 Harmony Music was updated to 1.10.4 Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.14 HexViewer was updated to 1.56 Home Medkit was updated to 1.6.2 HyperRogue was updated to 13.0v i2pd was updated to 2.55.0 Ichaival was updated to 1.9.3 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.1.2 Imagepipe was updated to 0.72 Ion Launcher was updated to y24-v14 IYPS was updated to 1.5.3 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.18.3 Karbon was updated to 2.9.1 Keep it up was updated to 1.6.0 Kepler-App was updated to 2.9.0 Key Mapper was updated to 2.7.2 Keysh was updated to 0.1.8 KitchenOwl was updated to 0.6.8 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.5 Kwik EFIS was updated to 7.00 LibreSudoku was updated to 2.0.1 LibreTrack was updated to 1.7.0 LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.0.1 Linux Command Library was updated to 3.2.7 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.3 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.2.0 Local NLP Backend was updated to 1.2.13 Logger was updated to 2.7.5 Markor was updated to 2.14.0 Material Notes was updated to 1.10.1 MedTimer was updated to 1.14.0 Memo Game (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.1.1 mensen was updated to 1.4.0 Meshenger was updated to 4.4.2 Meshtastic was updated to 2.5.15 Mill was updated to 5.8.4 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.12.31 monocles chat was updated to 2.0.3+free MusicSearch was updated to 1.13.0 Musify was updated to 9.0.3 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.3 NetGuard was updated to 2.332 neutriNote CE was updated to 4.5.4a News Reader was updated to 1.0.8 Next Player was updated to 0.13.0-rc05 Nextcloud Deck was updated to 1.24.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20250103 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 6.3.0 Notesnook - Private notes app was updated to 3.0.26 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.3.2 OpenWrt Manager was updated to 1.36.0 Orgro was updated to 1.50.3 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.33 OSM Dashboard (Offline) was updated to 5.1.0 OSM Dashboard for OpenTracks was updated to 5.1.0 Pachli for Mastodon was updated to 2.9.1 Pagan was updated to 1.6.7 Party UP! was updated to 1.7.0 Password Monitor was updated to 1.0.2 Peristyle was updated to v6.3.0 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.6.0 Petals was updated to 3.31.4 Phocid was updated to 20241228 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.10 PIN Mnemonic (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 2.0.4 Planetario was updated to 3.2 Planisphere was updated to 1.13.0 plees-tracker was updated to 24.8.2 Plexus was updated to 2.0.8 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 7.2.0 pOT-Droid was updated to 5.5.2 Power Ampache 2 was updated to 1.00-71-fdroid Prayer Book was updated to 0.7.0 Privacy Browser was updated to 3.19 QRAlarm was updated to 2.3.1 Quicksy was updated to 2.17.7+free Quote Unquote was updated to 4.48.0-fdroid Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to 1.13.7 Rank-My-Favs was updated to 0.6.3 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 124123651-github Reckoning Skills (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.1.1 Recurring Expense Tracker was updated to 0.12.6 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.5 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.65.1 RootlessJamesDSP was updated to 1.6.13 Ruler (Privacy Friendly) was updated to 1.1.2 Rush was updated to 2.4.2 RustDesk was updated to 1.3.6 Safe Space was updated to 2.1.0 SCEE was updated to 60.0 SchildiChat was updated to 1.6.26.sc84 SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.7.6.sc19 Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated to 2.11.3 Simlar - secure calls was updated to 2.12.0 (alwaysOnline) Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.24 Simple Search was updated to 2.1 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.2.3 SimpMusic was updated to 0.2.5 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.18 SnapSaver was updated to 0.7.0 SolitaireCG was updated to 4.0 Solon was updated to 2.3.0 SpamBlocker (Call & SMS) was updated to 4.0 Squeezer was updated to 2.3.8 Standard Notes was updated to 3.195.15 Stocks Widget was updated to 3.9.835 Stroke Input Method (筆畫輸入法) was updated to 1.4.1 Super Productivity was updated to 11.0.3 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.2.9 Table Habit was updated to 1.14.4 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.14.2 TermuC was updated to 0.1.6 Text Tools was updated to 2.0.2 The One App was updated to 3.0.2 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.12 Tickmate was updated to 1.4.14 Tilde Friends was updated to 0.0.26 Traditional T9 was updated to 42.0 Transito was updated to 0.9.1.8 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.242 Trigger was updated to 4.0.1 Trime was updated to 3.3.2 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.5 Tuner was updated to 7.1.0 Tusky was updated to 27.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 259.241220.0 Unciv was updated to 4.14.19 Unexpected Keyboard was updated to 1.30.3 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.41.3 Untracker was updated to 1.0.6 UP-Example was updated to 2.0.3 Valentin’s PowerTools #016 - Tomato Potato Clock was updated to 1.0.3 Vector Pinball was updated to 1.14.0 Vespucci was updated to 20.2.2.0 Voice Notify was updated to 1.4.1 VRChat Android Assistant was updated to 2.3.6 Waistline was updated to 3.9.2 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.6.6 WiFi Widget was updated to 1.6.3 WikiReader was updated to 1.9.0 Wuxia Learn - Learn Chinese was updated to 1.2.4 wX was updated to 55925 Xray was updated to 8.4.0 Xtra was updated to 2.40.5 YAACC was updated to 4.3.0 YAM Launcher was updated to 1.7 yetCalc was updated to 2.0.5 You Have Mail was updated to 0.18.2 Your local weather was updated to 6.0.5 zSMTH was updated to 24.12.27 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.19 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Happy new alpha! (2025/01/02 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 02 Jan 2025, Week 1 F-Droid core We wish you a Happy New Year! and we bring the new F-Droid and F-Droid Basic 1.22.0-alpha0, which marks the start of another dev testing cycle. What’s new? More polishing, bug fixing and pain points addressed: use “gentle update” API so apps don’t get killed while in use experimental support for un-archiving apps on Android 15 separate share link and share file actions in app details (so you can share the link to the app page or the installed APK) clean internal caches more often to free up space (Thanks DerGenaue!) don’t update repos if they already have been updated in last 15sec re-order donation badges to match website (Thanks Leo!) show toast when APK has more permissions than expected (if your Android distro injects extra permissions, you’ll know) add settings toggle to prefer foreign mirrors verify hash of downloaded image resources and reject invalid ones don’t show apps with “bad” anti-features in category view don’t show error dialog for (un)installs when user actively aborted don’t update repos twice on fresh/clean app start auto fallback to other installer if priv-ext doesn’t have permissions reduce DB size by checkpointing more frequently (Thanks DerGenaue!) fix a crash when a repo removed As usual we ask brave users to test this release and offer feedback as soon as possible. For example, “use ‘gentle update’ API so apps don’t get killed while in use” needs some attention, keep an eye on interactions with apps that keep a foreground service active, say like your email client or your messaging app, do they autoupdate as expected? How to install this new alpha? In F-Droid Client, on its own page, either scroll down, expand Versions and install the latest, or in the upper right menu choose “Allow Beta updates”. Community News @codedoctor is a bit late here but wanted us to know that Linwood Butterfly 2.2.3 was released. It sounds like a small release but it’s one of the biggest quality of life updates. Highlights: 🎨 More interface customization 💾 Save button indicator for autosave 🖊️ Laser tool improvements 📝 Template dialog improvements 🎨 Color wheel 🖼️ Render resolution Full blog entry here. Tailscale was updated to 1.78.1-t8903926f7-gfdc1e9ca4 after more than 2 months, as version 1.72.0 had some issues that we mentioned in TWIF 2024 week 43. Another good news is that the app might be swichable to build reproducible soon, if upstream agrees. Newly Added Apps 3 apps were newly added Al-Azkar: Imam Al-Hafiz Yahya bin Sharafah Al-Din Al-Nawawi Flip 2 DND: Toggle Do Not Disturb mode by flipping your phone face down SimbaDroid: A simple SMB file server (needs root) Updated Apps 94 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 2048 Open Fun Game was updated to 1.15.1 Amber was updated to 3.0.5 AntennaPod was updated to 3.6.0 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.50.5 Audio Share was updated to 0.3.1 Aves Libre was updated to 1.12.0 BusTO was updated to 2.3.1 Caffeinate was updated to 2.1.0 Camera Date Folders was updated to 1.4 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 21.2 Chance was updated to 1.4.1 Cirrus was updated to 3.7 Ciyue was updated to 0.15.1 Clauncher was updated to v5.1.2 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.8.5 Dog sports diary was updated to 1.0.11 DPC was updated to 1.6.2 EinkBro was updated to 14.2.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.6 Ente Auth was updated to 4.2.0 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.72 FaFa Runner was updated to 1.0.5 FairEmail was updated to 1.2252 Feeder was updated to 2.7.4 Find my IP was updated to v1.2.0 Flexify was updated to 1.1.95 Gauguin was updated to 0.33.0 GPTMobile was updated to 0.6.2 Green: Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 4.1.1 Human Benchmark was updated to 1.0.8 Ichaival was updated to 1.9.2 Jami was updated to 20241216-01 Journal was updated to 11.3 KitchenOwl was updated to 0.6.7 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.4 Kwik EFIS was updated to 6.25 LibreOffice Viewer was updated to 24.8.4.2 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.3-rc.2 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.1.26 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.23.1 Meshenger was updated to 4.4.1 Mill was updated to 5.8.3 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.12.19 MusicSearch was updated to 1.10.0 NewsBlur - News reader was updated to 13.3.3 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241222 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.37 Odin was updated to 3.4.4 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.76 OnePlus Flash Control was updated to 1.0.9 OpenBible was updated to 1.5.0 OpenTracks was updated to v4.17.0 Orgro was updated to 1.50.2 Orgzly Revived was updated to 1.8.32 OsmAnd~ was updated to 4.9.10 Pagan was updated to 1.6.4 Peristyle was updated to v6.2.0 Phocid was updated to 20241221 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.9 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.16.4 Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to 1.28.5 PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to 3.3.0 QRAlarm was updated to 2.3 Quillpad was updated to 1.4.21 Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to 1.13.4 Ricochlime was updated to 1.11.4 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.65 Rosarium was updated to Josue RSSAid was updated to 3.0.4 Satunes was updated to 2.5.2 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.3.3-rc0 Share Paste O2 was updated to 2024.12.20 Shiori was updated to 1.50.20 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.23 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.16 Stendhal Game was updated to 1.48 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.2.8 Taler Wallet was updated to 0.14.1 taz was updated to 1.10.1 The One App was updated to 3.0.1 Thor was updated to 1.7.1 Todo List (PFA) was updated to 3.0.0 Tournant was updated to 2.9.1 Tower Collector was updated to 2.15.6 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.3 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.41.2 UP-Example was updated to 2.0.0 Valv was updated to 2.1.1 Vespucci was updated to 20.2.1.0 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.22.0 WhatSave was updated to 1.4.3 Xray was updated to 8.3.0 Xtra was updated to 2.40.4 Yivi was updated to 7.5.7 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Calls and call for a meet up (2024/12/26 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 26 Dec 2024, Week 52 Community News Will you be at the 38-th Chaos Communication Congress in Hamburg between 27–30 Dec 2024? If so, did you install the 38C3 Schedule and the c3nav Indoor navigation apps yet? @thore proposed an F-Droid meetup at 38C3, so if you fancy a real human talk, add the FOSS Android App and F-Droid Community Meetup to your Day 2 TODO schedule! Conversations and Quicksy were updated to 2.17.6+free polishing more of the UX about bubbles, avatars and reactions. While Audio and Video calls have been available since April 2020, recently the apps also got “Android calls integration” too. This makes an XMPP call behave like a normal phone call yielding useful features like: better Bluetooth integration and busy answer when you get called during an ongoing call. Not all Android versions support this, but newer ones do, so it all should be fine and dandy, right? Well, not quite. The integration was part of a larger code refactoring and the initial feedback was from plenty of devices, from many manufacturers, that… they stopped being able to call. Apparently this feature had a lot of bugs depending on the device and Android version, eg. tablets that advertised to have call integration or phones that did yet nothing worked. The developer started adding devices to an exception list with each new release making this an unwieldy endeavor. Latest version adds a toggle that allows users to just turn it off in case they’re unlucky and their device is one of the broken ones. Forks like Cheogram and monocles chat should follow suit soon. Not all news is fun to type. We’ve been advertising the good work that the Divest project does, not only on the custom Android distro that helps old devices still be up-to-date but also about their apps in F-Droid. December marks 10 years of DivestOS, and this December will be the end of the project unfortunately. We wish Tavi all the best and thank them for all the work done during all this time! Mull and Fennec we’re updated at the same time, so we hope there’s a way forward for Mull too and we’re tracking this in this issue. The rest of the apps might function by themselves or by having someone else host updated databases, we are tracking them in this issue. @shuvashish76 fills the board: LibreSudoku was updated to 2.0.0, with lots of changes. Major features include : Killer Sudoku, Backup & Restore. Newly Added Apps 5 apps were newly added (I)improvised (E)xplosive (D)evices: Imagine Minesweeper ... but in 3D Calorimeter: Track your calories! Cifras o letras: A simplified version of Countdown UK game-show FaFa Runner: Enjoy smooth gameplay, stunning graphics, and endless fun OnePlus Flash Control: OnePlus Flash Brightness control app Updated Apps 104 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 2048 Open Fun Game was updated to 1.15.0 AndBible: Bible Study was updated to 5.0.834 Andor’s Trail was updated to 0.8.12.1 AndStatus was updated to 62.03 ArcaneChat was updated to 1.50.4 baresip was updated to 63.0.0 baresip+ was updated to 50.0.0 Bitcoin Wallet was updated to 10.21 Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to 10.21 blichess was updated to 8.0.0+ble1.0.4 Bookaccio Book Tracker was updated to 0.0.7 Brume Wallet was updated to 0.6.535 Cheogram was updated to 2.17.2-3+free Ciyue was updated to 0.15.0 Clipious was updated to 1.22.5 Code Word was updated to 1.4.4 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.10.2 croc was updated to 1.11.3 Delta Chat was updated to 1.50.3 Discreet Launcher was updated to v7.7.0 droidVNC-NG was updated to 2.8.0 Easy Notes was updated to 1.4 Emotic was updated to 0.1.3 Exfilac was updated to 1.1.4 FairEmail was updated to 1.2251 Feeder was updated to 2.7.2 Flexify was updated to 1.1.94 Frigoligo was updated to 2.1.2 Geo Share was updated to 2.0.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.6 GLPI Agent was updated to 1.6.1 GraphHopper Maps was updated to 2.2.0 Healthy Battery Charging was updated to 2.0.9 Home Medkit was updated to 1.6.0 IETF 121 was updated to 0.1.70 Image Toolbox was updated to 3.1.1 Imagepipe was updated to 0.71 Immich was updated to 1.123.0 Infomaniak kDrive was updated to 5.2.7 Infomaniak Mail was updated to 1.6.9 Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated to Build101.0.0 jtx Board journals|notes|tasks was updated to 2.09.04.ose Just (Video) Player was updated to 0.180 Karbon was updated to 2.9.0 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.14 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.2 Ladefuchs was updated to 3.1.8 LinkDroid for Linkwarden was updated to 2.0.0 Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to 2.2.3-rc.1 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.1.22 Magisk was updated to 28.1 Mattermost Beta was updated to 2.23.0 Mill was updated to 5.8.2 MoeMemos was updated to 0.8.3 MusicSearch was updated to 1.9.0-beta.6 My Expenses was updated to 3.9.2 NanoLedger was updated to 1.0.0 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.4.2 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241218 NoNonsense Notes was updated to 7.2.0 Offi was updated to 13.0.8 Open Food Facts was updated to 4.17.1 OpenBible was updated to 1.4.2 openScale was updated to 2.5.3 Orion Viewer - Pdf & Djvu was updated to 0.95.3 Pagan was updated to 1.6.3 Password Generator was updated to 1.8.3 Password Master was updated to 1.4.1 Phocid was updated to 20241217 PicGuard was updated to 1.0.8 Pie Launcher was updated to 1.22.0 PiliPala was updated to 1.0.25 PipePipe was updated to 4.0.2 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.15.11 PPSSPP was updated to 1.18.1 ProseReader was updated to 1.0.1 ProtonVPN - Secure and Free VPN was updated to 5.8.15.0 Qalculate! was updated to 0.1.2 RailTrip was updated to 1.5.5 Retro Music was updated to 6.2.1 RootlessJamesDSP was updated to 1.6.12 Sapio was updated to 1.6.2 SchildiChat Next was updated to 0.7.5.sc18 Session was updated to 1.20.8 Simple Keyboard was updated to 5.22 SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.2.1 Solon was updated to 2.2 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.2.6 Symphony was updated to 2024.12.115 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.28.1.1 Terminal Emulator was updated to 5.3.0/X Timed Shutdown [No Root] was updated to v2.85 Todo Agenda was updated to 4.10.2 TourCount was updated to 3.6.0 TrackerControl was updated to 2024.12.15-fdroid TransektCount was updated to 4.2.0 Tuta Mail was updated to 259.241217.0 Unciv was updated to 4.14.16 Unstoppable Crypto Wallet was updated to 0.41.1 Valentin’s PowerTools #016 - Tomato Potato Clock was updated to 1.0.2 Voyager for Lemmy was updated to 2.21.0 XiVPN was updated to 1.1.2 Xray was updated to 8.2.0 Xtra was updated to 2.40.2 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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Message in a tunnel (2024/12/19 00:00)
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 19 Dec 2024, Week 51 Community News DEfO ECH Apps, Experimental fork of F-Droid to use TLS ECH with Cloudflare as the default host, was updated to 0.3 after two and a half years. If the buzzwords in the summary tickle your network needs, you can give it a spin, but remember that it’s based on the older client code so it might miss some of the new niceties. Testing helps us to hopefully integrate these features in the main client sooner. ArcaneChat was updated to 1.50.3 and Delta Chat to 1.50.2. Did everyone test the new state-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer networking support introduced in 1.48? No? At least do read about it. Element - Secure Messenger was updated to 1.6.24, but for various reasons only arm64 and x86_64 for now. The next cycles will bring the versions for the older armv7 architecture and the (probably gone by now) x86 architecture. eSpeak, Text-to-speech engine for Android based on the eSpeak engine, was updated to 1.52.0 after a two year pause too. We complained that only RHVoice was updated 3 months ago, as its language support is limited, but looks like eSpeak is back, for arm64 and newer devices too, covering with its robotic voice more languages of the world. Did you want to know more about the transition from K-9 to the Thunderbird app? Now you can, from the latest Heise interview with Philipp Kewisch. Three questions and answers: Technical change – from K-9 to the Thunderbird app is written in German, but Fennec and Mull will offer to translate it for you. What about the apps? Well, K-9 Mail and Thunderbird Beta for Testers were updated to 9.0b3 and Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox was updated to 8.2. SimpleX Chat was updated to 6.2.1, but given its build complexity and time needs only the armv7 version was built in the last cycle. Support for arm64 will come out soon. While you wait, peruse their latest posts, Preset servers operated by Flux, business chats and more and Oppose digital IDs. @shuvashish76 brings us the gossip: another.im, Yet Another Conversations fork but..., was just included yet it’s not a new app but the old Conversations Classic which finally fixed its issues that contributed to its removal in October. Welcome back! DNSNet, Lightweight ad and content blocker, is a fork of DNS66, which appears to have its development stopped. The new app aims to continue the goals of the original with modern Android development practices. Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated to 2024.9 following their latest biennial security audit. A total of six vulnerabilities were discovered during the test by X41, and you can read about those and their fixes, here. Removed Apps 1 app was removed Alexandria: Download and convert EBooks Newly Added Apps 3 more apps were newly added Faraday: Secure messenger for Matrix based on Element oj_helper: An app for looking up OJ information OpenBible: OpenBible provides the Bible as a simple Android App Updated Apps 156 more apps were updated (expand for the full list) 8-Bit Wonders was updated to 0.8.5 AF Weather Widget was updated to 2.8 Amber was updated to 3.0.2 APM was updated to 3.1.0 Arx Libertatis was updated to 1.3.5 aShell was updated to v0.11 Aves Libre was updated to 1.11.20 AVNC was updated to 2.7.0 BabbyPaint was updated to 0.0.6 Bible Notify was updated to 4.9.1 Bibleside was updated to 0.2.0-alpha Breezy Weather was updated to 5.3.1_freenet Capy Reader was updated to 2024.12.1083 Cartes IGN was updated to 3.1.29 Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to 21.1 Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to 2.34.1 Chaka Book Reader was updated to 1.24.9a.11 Chance was updated to 1.4.0 Chip Defense was updated to 1.50 ChordReader 2 was updated to 2.4.0 Cirrus was updated to 3.6 Citrine was updated to 0.5.8 Ciyue was updated to 0.14.0 Clauncher was updated to v5.1.1 Clock was updated to 2.11 ColorBlendr was updated to v1.10.1 Cuppa - Tea Timer was updated to 2.8.4 Currencies: Exchange Rate Calculator was updated to 1.22.5 DataBackup was updated to 2.0.5 DeepL was updated to 8.7 DigiAgriApp was updated to 0.3.0 DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated to 5.221.0 Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 0.7.5 Enhanced Music Controller Lite was updated to 1.34 Ente Auth was updated to 4.1.6 Ente Photos - Open source, end-to-end encrypted al was updated to 0.9.71 EP Mobile was updated to 2.34.1 Fcitx5 (Chewing Plugin) was updated to 0.1.0-0-g78c03d12 Fennec F-Droid was updated to 133.0.3 FFShare was updated to 1.3.3 Finamp was updated to 0.6.25 Fitness Calendar was updated to 2024.12.1 floccus bookmark sync was updated to 5.4.1 Forkgram was updated to 11.5.3.0 Forkyz was updated to 59 Gallery was updated to 3.1.0 Geto was updated to 1.16.5 Godot Editor 3 was updated to 3.6.0.stable Godot Editor 4 was updated to 4.3.0.stable Grit was updated to 1.3.5 gttrpg was updated to 1.2.1 Headwind MDM Agent was updated to 6.13 Human Benchmark was updated to 1.0.7 Husky was updated to 1.6.1 Immich was updated to 1.122.2 Inner Breeze was updated to 1.3.8 Invoice Ninja was updated to 5.0.172 Jami was updated to 20241211-01 Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to 0.18.2 Joplin was updated to 3.2.3 Journal was updated to 9.2 Just (Video) Player was updated to 0.178 Key Mapper was updated to 2.7.1 kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to 1.0.0-alpha.13 Klick’r - Smart AutoClicker was updated to 3.1.1 Kotatsu was updated to 7.7.1 LabNex for GitLab was updated to 2.0.0 Lissen: Audiobookshelf client was updated to 1.1.19 Logger was updated to 2.6.1 Lyrion was updated to 0.8.4 Material Notes was updated to 1.9.1 Meditation was updated to 1.5.0 MedTimer was updated to 1.12.3 Mill was updated to 5.8.1 Money Manager Ex was updated to 2024.12.10 MOROway App was updated to 10.1.2 MRT Buddy was updated to 0.0.22 Mull was updated to 133.0.3 Mumla was updated to 3.6.14 MuPDF mini was updated to 1.25.2a MuPDF viewer was updated to 1.25.2a Muse - Text to Speech was updated to 0.1.1 Musify was updated to 9.0.0 Neo Backup was updated to 8.3.10 NeoStumbler was updated to 1.4.1 News Reader was updated to 1.0.7 Nextcloud Dev was updated to 20241211 NextPush was updated to 2.0.0 NFCGate was updated to 2.4.4 NotallyX - Quick Notes/Tasks was updated to 6.2.2 ntodotxt was updated to 0.12.1 Obtainium was updated to 1.1.36 Odin was updated to 3.4.2 Oinkoin was updated to 1.0.75 Open Sudoku was updated to 4.2.0 OpenContacts was updated to 31.0 OpenMoneyBox was updated to 3.5.1.2 OpenTracks was updated to v4.16.1 Orgro was updated to 1.49.4 Pagan was updated to 1.6.0 Password Generator was updated to 1.8.2 Persian Calendar was updated to 9.5.1 Petals was updated to 3.31.1 Phocid was updated to 20241212 Plant-it was updated to 0.10.0 Play NotePad was updated to 1.3.4 Podcini.R - Podcast instrument was updated to 6.15.4 PTO - Plaintext Organizer was updated to 3.2.2 PySolFC was updated to 3.1.2 QRAlarm was updated to 2.2 Raccoon for Lemmy was updated to 1.13.3 Reader for Selfoss was updated to 124123421-github Retro Music was updated to 6.2.0 RiMusic was updated to 0.6.64 RootlessJamesDSP was updated to 1.6.11 Saber was updated to 0.25.3 Sapio was updated to 1.6.1 Satunes was updated to 2.5.1 SD Maid 2/SE - System Cleaner was updated to 1.3.2-rc0 ShowCase was updated to 2.0 SimpleTextCrypt was updated to 4.6 SiYuan was updated to 3.1.15 SnapSaver was updated to 0.6.0 Solon was updated to 2.1 Spotube was updated to 3.9.0 Squeeze Client was updated to 1.4 SshDaemon was updated to 2.1.21 StreetComplete was updated to 60.0 Swiss Bitcoin Pay was updated to 2.2.4 Syncthing-Fork was updated to 1.28.1.0 Tarnhelm was updated to 1.6.6 taz was updated to 1.10.0 TermuC was updated to 0.1.5 The Life was updated to 1.29.1 The One App was updated to 2.2.1 Thor was updated to 1.7.0 Thumb-Key was updated to 4.0.9 Tournant was updated to 2.9.0-fdroid Tower Collector was updated to 2.15.5 Trail Sense was updated to 6.6.1 Transportr - Public Transit was updated to 2.2.3 TRIfA was updated to 1.0.241 Träwelldroid was updated to 2.17.2 Tusky was updated to 27.0 beta 1 Tuta Calendar was updated to 256.241211.0 Unciv was updated to 4.14.14 Valv was updated to 2.0.1 WG Tunnel was updated to 3.6.4 whoBIRD was updated to 3.7 Wikipedia was updated to r/2.7.50514-r-2024-12-11 WikiReader was updated to 1.8.2 XiVPN was updated to 1.1.1 Xtra was updated to 2.40.1 yetCalc was updated to 2.0.4 Zimly S3 Backup was updated to 1.6.2 µLauncher was updated to j-0.0.18 Thank you for reading this week’s TWIF 🙂 Please subscribe to the RSS feed in your favourite RSS application to be updated of new TWIFs when they come up. 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