It is almost a year since the switch to Vorarbeiter for building and publishing apps. We've made several improvements since then, and it's time to brag about them. tl;dr: Flathub has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for de…
It is almost a year since the switch to Vorarbeiter for building and publishing apps. We've made several improvements since then, and it's time to brag about them. In the initial announcement, I mentioned we were using RunsOn, a just-in-tim…
tl;dr: Flathub has improved tooling to make license compliance easier for developers. Distros should rebuild OS images with updated runtimes from Flathub; app developers should ensure they're using up-to-date runtimes and verify that licens…
We have replaced Buildbot with a custom service, and we hope you haven't noticed. Vorarbeiter is a German word for "foreman" and a living proof of my school-related trauma. The new service is a middleman between GitHub and GitHub Actions. I…
With thousands of apps and billions of downloads, Flathub has a responsibility to help ensure the safety of our millions of active users. We take this responsibility very seriously with a layered, in-depth approach including sandboxing, per…
With apps made for different form factors, it can be hard to find what works for your specific device. For example, we know it can be a bit difficult to find great apps that are actually designed to be used on a mobile phone or tablet. To h…
There is a storm coming and we are re-architecting our build infrastructure. Buildbot has never been designed to do what Flathub needs: taking arbitrary inputs like application IDs and dynamically creating new pipelines. However, there's no…
It's been a busy year, and our platform and developer community-building efforts are paying off. Let's take a look at what we've been up to over the last six months, and measure its effect. At the beginning of the year we announced an incre…
Starting next week, June 17th, the linter will no longer allow enabling automatic merge for pull requests created by flatpak-external-data-checker, unless the app uses an extra-data source or has been added to the exceptions list. The verif…
We're gearing up to launch curated banners on the Flathub home page! However, before we can do that there's one more blocker: Banners need a background color for each app, and many apps don't provide this metadata yet. This is why today we'…
Flathub's automatic build validation is more thorough now, and includes checks for issues we previously would have only flagged manually. There is a chance that if your app has been passing the continuous integration checks previously, it w…
The goal of these requirements is to ensure that the applications hosted Runtimes supply the essential dependencies required by applications, and App submissions are extremely welcome and the process is straightforward. This is a guide on h…