The intersection of the new #Google Developer Verification Policy and the #EU #DMA needs to be pondered. Article 6.4? Yes, in need of an update, sooner rather than later. #FDroid keeps showing the way forward:
Google Developer Verification Policy and the DMA | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is β€œthe EU’s law to make the markets in the digital sector fairer and more contestable”. F-Droid strongly align...
PSA: If you haven't updated #K9Mail to 12.0, please don't update it. It will crash on start if you use the unified inbox. The bug has been fixed in 12.1 and will be available in the next #FDroid update. #Thunderbird is not affected, kind reminder to consider switching as K-9 will go away in the future anyway. Workaround for now: Make a widget for a single mailbox, then you can open K-9, you can change accounts and disable unified inbox.
#FDroid website does not load? Yay, certificates rotation failed.πŸ™„ We're on to it, will keep you posted... /LE: Tracking it in:
GitLab
Site certificates expired "Your connection isn't private" (#883) Β· Issues Β· F-Droid / Website Β· GitLab
I got error when access f-droid.org on Edge and Chrome
If you feel that #FDroid downloads are slow, just press ❎ to cancel the download then press Install/Update again so it picks up some other mirror. There's no unified "F-Droid server" but several and a dozen or more mirrors. Each time you try again it will use a different one. Hopefully the next one will have better bandwidth. /PS: We've seen the reports, we will look into it.
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is happening: * Hardware upgrades can't come quicker * #Syncthing Lite is back * #Taler hits one point zero * #ShatteredPixel needs Android 5 * #WebLibreBrowser wraps #Gecko in #Flutter * More stats panels * #Debian Trixie is here! * #Wikipedia fights #OnlineSafetyAct * #Rethink hits some bugs + 12 new apps & 160 more updates - 8 apps archived #ItsFriday Friday Friday:
Party like it
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 14 Aug 2025, Week 33 F-Droid core After the last TWIF we pushed the latest version of F-Droid Client...
Back in April we asked you for a helping hand regarding legal matters. We got plenty of people willing to help or at least to guide us towards other like-minded projects that might have the experience we were looking for. Our of those discussions #FDroid will publish a series of posts that go through all the lessons learned and we hope these will be useful to all #FLOSS #FOSS contributors, maintainers, and developers out there. Take a 10 minute break for the intro:
Strengthening F-Droid
In April, we published a piece outlining some of the work underway to help strengthen the F-Droid project against unjust intrusion, interception an...
The #EU #DMA compliance workshops exist to regulate gatekeepers powers, yet both #Apple and #Google treat them like "product launches" where non-engineers show slides and can never answer questions. The Android play-field, instead of taking steps to respect the DMA, Google shrinks what Android even is. If Apple can own its closed iOS, Google figured they can privatize Android? Maybe it being #FOSS for 17 years was just a glitch and now Android is out of the famous Google betas? 1/2
The last index update triggered a bug in the official F-Droid client, and Basic: you'll see a toast with "not nullable: icon" and the index won't update. We have reverted the related change and working on fixing the bug. The fix will take about two build cycles to be deployed, so about one week. You can get the latest index now by cleaning app data or reinstalling the client, but you'd have to setup your 3-rd party repos and their priorities. We are tracking this in:
GitLab
1.23.0 - `not nullable: icon` on index update (#3054) Β· Issues Β· F-Droid / Client Β· GitLab
Trying to update index This is on Stable, Debug or Basic Debug. F-Droid index is NOT up to date. nightly index at...
While we don't promote non-#FOSS apps, we can salute #Brave for setting up their own #FDroid repository for #BraveBrowser. @npub1t4gt...ml9t how about a fully FOSS browser in f-droid.org next? πŸ˜‰ How to add? Follow:
Brave
Official Brave F-Droid repository now available | Brave
Our new officially-supported repository allows users of the F-Droid client to install the browser and receive automatic updates without requiring G...
This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live: * Bimba test version out too soon * "Co" stands for "community" in #CoMaps * A better #DolphinEmulator * Get your #FediPlan companion * #FennecFDroid steady improvements * Unified experiences in #Godot Editor * New #Luanti is out #MineTest * #MonoclesChat read if you use Tor * #StatusIM blogs a lot * #UnifiedPush in #Forkgram + 7 new apps + 179 updates & more Plan your next update:
Planned posts and planned games | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 12 Jun 2025, Week 24 Community News Bimba was updated to 3.10.0-alpha but this was an unstable versi...