Notices by F-Droid (fdroidorg@floss.social)

After Black Friday and Cyber Monday, there is still Giving Tuesday left.

But instead of shopping stuff you probably don't even need, please think about, if you want to give something instead.

Let it be a donation [1] or a contribution [2], every bit brings us forward (all together).

We wrote a bit about possible reasons to give:
https://f-droid.org/2024/12/03/giving-tuesday.html

[1] https://f-droid.org/donate/
[2] https://f-droid.org/contribute/

We have a new This week in #FDroid (TWIF) post.

Thanks to the EU's DMA, 3rd party stores will get more love and treated more equally than before.

Tailscale is doing a redesign, until that's done we've released the crash fix update.

Conversations and Quicksy have their 10th anniversary and celebrate with a design update.

Last but not least, we had 10 new and 160 updated apps this week.

https://f-droid.org/2024/04/18/twif.html

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was just published.

We have new mirrors and some news about Simple Mobile Tools.
Also, we wrote about DiskUsage, Sithakuru and Karma Firewall.

https://f-droid.org/en/2023/12/07/twif.html

#FDroid

Another #AndroidAppRain yesterday, bringing you 57 updated apps and 3 new ones:

* Geto: modify your device settings and apply them to a specific user app
* eXch.: automatic cryptocurrency swaps
* Sithakuru: a Sinhala keyboard

Enjoy your #free and #FOSS #Android #apps with #FDroid :awesome:

Unlike Google, F-Droid does not force developers to publicize their name or address information.

We understand that people have many reasons to develop under another name than their legal one and to keep their personal information private. And that what matters is the trust between user and developer, not private details of their lives.

For more information on how we designed F-Droid to protect your privacy, see https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html.

We regret to inform you that Mastodon has decided to leave the F-Droid Reproducible Builds project.

Going forward, Mastodon updates on F-Droid will be maintained by the F-Droid team and signed with an unique per-app key generated by F-Droid.

If you installed Mastodon through F-Droid, please uninstall and reinstall it to keep receiving updates.

#WireGuard becomes the first VPN app on #FDroid to be built reproducibly! This means that WireGuard on F-Droid is now guaranteed to be 100% (bit-by-bit) equal to the WireGuard the developer builds.

If you're using WireGuard from F-Droid, please export your tunnels and re-install to switch to the developer's signature and continue receiving updates.

More details in the official WireGuard announcement: https://lists.zx2c4.com/pipermail/wireguard/2023-April/008045.html

New to reproducible builds? Check out https://f-droid.org/en/2023/01/15/towards-a-reproducible-fdroid.html

F-Droid 1.16.3 is out! We recommend all users to update to this release. It fixes a serious issue rending F-Droid unusable after Android version upgrade (for example, Android 12 to 13).

We identified a serious bug with F-Droid 1.16 through 1.16.2 when doing an Android version upgrade (e.g.: Android 12 to 13), causing F-Droid to end up in a broken state with no apps available and update checking not working.

We are preparing the release of F-Droid 1.16.3 which prevents this bug from happening. It will be out soon.

Please refrain from updating your Android version until you have updated to F-Droid 1.16.3.

More information and workarounds on https://forum.f-droid.org/t/important-f-droid-broken-after-android-version-upgrade/21902.

We transferred a total of 178,930 GBytes* running f-droid.org last month. It's all paid for with your donations. Want to help #FDroid keep up an running? Consider giving: https://f-droid.org/donate

(* Numbers don't include traffic handled by community mirrors.)

We are very grateful to @ashfurrow for hosting the official #FDroid #Mastodon account for four and a half years. We will miss https://mastodon.technology because it was a great home for us. Many thanks. We've moved to https://floss.social in the hopes we'll have a good time here!