We are excited to announce that F-Droid has been awarded a grant from #OpenTechFund designed to support FOSS projects in addressing long-term sustainability challenges. More details:
F-Droid Awarded Open Technology Fund’s FOSS Sustainability Grant | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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 specifi...
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: - F-Droid Client & Basic 1.22.0 are out (dare to update!) - #webxdc is spreading its tentacles - #dolphinemulator has a huge update - #newpipe brings one fix, one still missing - Catshare unifies device-to-device sharing All these and news about 154 more apps at
Refresh your home-screen | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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 ye...
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is all about Federation: - Element (Matrix) user? Important changes ahead, don't skip this post - Emacs on Android, soon Android on Emacs πŸ˜‰ - #FOSDEM apps are ready for next week - #Peertube app officially live - #Pixelix is on the wave - WriteOn key change - KDE Connect, Podcini, VPN Hotspot and more than 238 other apps Read more at
Federated services made easier | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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, ye...
fdroidserver v2.3.5 was released to fix issues with `AllowedAPKSigningKeys` when used in specific configurations. More details in the changelog:
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CHANGELOG.md Β· 2.3.5 Β· F-Droid / fdroidserver Β· GitLab
Tools for managing builds, indexes, updates, and deployments for F-Droid repositories.
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This week in #FDroid (TWIF): - Fennec (our Firefox fork) was updated to version 134. Mull however won't get this update, so it's time to switch browsers - Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered was re-engineered - RetroArch is now easier to onboard - Syncthing was finally archived, but Syncthing-Fork got an update - WG Tunnel is now reproducible, which unfortunately means a re-installation on your side - Some more news about Wikipedia, Element and NClientV2 Read more at
Stop mulling, get Fennec | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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 sti...
This week in #FDroid (TWIF): - We will remove the "gentle update" from F-Droid 1.22.0-alpha, as it is not stable enough. Thank you for testing (and finding bugs)! - there is a new article on how to replace most common apps with open source versions - Fossify Paint was added - we recommend to switch from Mull to Fennec (as Mull has stopped development) - OpenTracks is now available as reproducible and non-reproducible variant - Exclave, a SagerNet fork was added
Gentle updates postponed | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
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...
We want to re-establish our Community Council to enforce our Code of Conduct. For this, we call for nominations for these roles. Read more at:
Call for Community Council Nominations | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Hello, The F-Droid Board’s first effort to start an F-Droid Community Council – an important step toward ensuring a safe, constructive, and emp...
 Note: the deadline for nominations was extended to 29.12. (
More time to submit Community Council nominations | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Dear members of the F-Droid community, Due to an error on the part of the Board of Directors, the call for nominations to the F-Droid Community Cou...
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We're starting a sprint to look at all the issues preventing #ReproducibleBuilds in all the apps we ship. Most of the issues are simple fixes in the upstream code, like unsorted outputs or timestamps included in the build. You can help make the #FreeSoftware #Android ecosystem be more reproducible! See the failures here and help us report them upstream:
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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:
Giving Tuesday - December 3rd, 2024 | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Are you tired of Black Friday sales encouraging you to buy more things you don’t need? How about Cyber Monday advertisements asking you to sign u...
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Donations | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid is the FOSS app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store to explore the world of free...
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Contribute | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
F-Droid is the FOSS app distribution ecosystem for Android where your user freedom comes first. Discover our app store to explore the world of free...
This week in #FDroid (TWIF): - european-alternatives.eu lists software and apps that come from the EU, some of them are regular guests in our TWIF - we found a YouTube video about apps that are NOT on a centralized app store - aTox and UniPatcher were updated again after a long hiatus - Kodi fixed many bugs - OsmAnd~ has a lot of new features - Status, VLC and Zulip were also updated (and 111 more apps) - MRT Buddy is new and helps you commute in Dhaka Read more at
Find your way around apps | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 21 Nov 2024, Week 47 Community News Ever wanted to find European alternatives for digital service an...