This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 03 Apr 2025, Week 14 Community News We were sad to announce that the Divest projects were shutting down back in December 2024, so we are glad to see GMaps WV being picked up by the very prolific @woheller69. An update will...

Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! Up to four new directors will be selected to serve for two years. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to [email protected] (one email per nomination) and make...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Mar 2025, Week 13 Community News aFreeRDP was updated to 3.14.0 after almost a year of missed releases. The changelog is huge, filled with bug fixes, new features and some polished ones. Of note, F-Droid patches the build to make it...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 20 Mar 2025, Week 12 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic version 1.22.0 were promoted to suggested so everybody got the update this week. If you want to know what’s new, see the changelog. What’s next? We’re in the bike-shedding stage for...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 13 Mar 2025, Week 11 Community News @OxygenCobalt has shipped a huge 4.0.0 update with a total user interface refresh based on the latest Material Design specs for Auxio and two more patches polishing the experience. The changelog can be read here....

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 06 Mar 2025, Week 10 Community News “Digital Luddites are rising. They want to democratise tech, not destroy it” is a ten minute article about the “luddites” of old and of the present. Money quote: “Proprietary corporate systems have long been challenged...

两年前，几乎就是这一天，我们谈到为何 “VPN 信任需要自由软件”，强调了可重复构建的重要性，特别是涉及你的网络连接安全的时候。那篇文章激起了一些兴趣并带来了 F-Droid 打包可重复构建方式的改进。 去年我们读到专有键盘（仍然）在监控它们的用户，我们深感痛心并建议你找一个更好的 FOSS 键盘应用。键盘可能是设备上最敏感的应用。你写的所有内容都将经过键盘应用，包括密码和隐私信息。为了有一台可信的设备，我们需要知道我们的键盘应用以非常小心地对待我们的秘密。最好不要求互联网权限或以任何其它方式将我们的精确按键发送到它们该去的地方以外的任何地方。 因为我们正在推动应用在打包时实现可重复构建，让我们看看 F-Droid 里目前有什么键盘应用。 我们的 F-Droid 验证服务器不断重新构建应用并和它们的发布版本比较。这使我们可以发现所有应用里不确定性的来源，不管有没有设置为可重复构建。 我们按可重复构建状态对我们的键盘应用分类： 可重复 - 我们在验证它们可重复后托管开发者签名的应用 己验证 - 我们托管我们签名的应用，验证服务器确认它们可重复 将要验证成功 - 我们托管我们签名的应用，验证失败，但我们已经向上游提交了修复，所以 可能 下个版本将验证成功 未验证 - 我们托管我们签名的应用，验证失败或应用太旧了不太可能修好 可重复构建： 拉丁字符：Colemak Mod-DH Keyboard，Fossify Keyboard，HeliBoard 亚洲字符：Fcitx5 + 插件，筷字输入法，Sithakuru 特殊布局：FlickBoard，Thumb-Key，Traditional T9 语音输入： Sayboard 杂项：KryptEY 己验证： 拉丁字符：Brailliac: Braille Keyboard，DroidTR IME，Irregular Expressions，Key Mapper GUI...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 27 Feb 2025, Week 9 F-Droid core Termux:GUI, A plugin for Termux to use the Android GUI from terminal applications, is finally live. Well technically it was live several times in the past but it was not set up properly. How so?...