Testing of F-Droid main and F-Droid Basic continues. We got a couple of error reports from the 2.0 latest alpha11. We urge you to update your client to the latest release and test it thoroughly. If you see any errors, remember to send them
Fennec F-Droid was updated to 153.0.0 adding tab groups, another annoying instance of the privacy dashboard (So, Mozilla, your telemetry showed everybody disabling that from the Start page so you’ve added it to the Tab page because…? Pfft),…
F-Droid client released 2.0-alpha11. It will be marked as suggested if there is no severe bug found. As usual, please help test it! Hans (@eighthave) traveled to EuroCommons, paid for by your donations. EuroCommons is a series of events org…
Last week we skipped our weekly post as we got busy with more pressing tasks around F-Droid, hence the lists below grew a bit more. What did we do instead? On the client side, we are polishing version 2.0 as we come close to a stable releas…
If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation. Over the past few months, devices around the world have been infected with this novel strain, with as many as 4 bi…
F-Droid, in its 16 years of existence, has often been a study subject as our openness and transparency make it easy for anyone to not only build a random app, but to recheck our hosted apps from today, from 10 years ago or all at once. On o…
Element X - Secure Chat & Call was updated to 26.06.2 and SchildiChat Next to 0.11.4-ex_26_6_2, fixing a security issue, on top of the usual enhancements. Do update asap! FairScan – PDF Scanner was updated to 2.0.0 and now can create search…
F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha10. We tooted a toot that you can read here, and yes, we are like an inch (or 25.4 mm if you’re on metric) close to release, do test it on your device today: You’ve read above and want to h…
AirPlay Server, AirPlay receiver implementation with video and audio support, was just added pairing with Mirror for streaming between devices or straight from other AirPlay compatible devices out there. Bold Bitcoin Wallet has a huge updat…
ArcaneChat was updated to 2.50.0 with many fixes and improvements. Calls are no longer experimental, same for channels, location streaming is better and more. FluffyChat was updated to 2.6.0 with updated translations, design fixes, sync opt…
Some exciting news from 2025, F-Droid was awarded $50,000 in funding from FLOSS fund, an initiative dedicated to supporting critical, impactful, and valuable Free/Libre and Open Source projects globally. This support comes when the project
Exploring user feedback for client version 2.0, we heard users articulating the need to easily find apps. One way to improve this is search, and we’ve made great strides there. Another way is with Categories, which were improved three-fold.…