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#WireGuard becomes the first VPN app on #FDroid to be built reproducibly! It is now guaranteed to be 100% equal to the WireGuard the developer builds.
If you're using WireGuard from F-Droid, please export your tunnels and re-install to continue receiving updates. (1/2)
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F-Droid 1.16.3 is out! We recommend all users to update to this release. It fixes a serious issue rending F-Droid unusable after Android version upgrade (for example, Android 12 to 13).
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We are preparing the release of F-Droid 1.16.3 which prevents this bug from happening. It will be out soon.
Please refrain from updating your Android version until you have updated to F-Droid 1.16.3.
More information and workarounds on forum.f-droid.org/t/important-f-.
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We identified a serious bug with F-Droid 1.16 through 1.16.2 when doing an Android version upgrade (e.g.: Android 12 to 13), causing F-Droid to end up in a broken state with no apps available and update checking not working.
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The F-droid app is undergoing major changes: Faster and smaller updates thanks to a new repository format.
For this, we needed to change the entire app database. To ensure that there are no regression we need your help: Please install the latest alpha version of F-Droid (1/2)
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Have you heard about #ReproducibleBuilds? This is one of the biggest #security benefits of #FOSS. On #Android, this technique ensures that the #FDroid version of an app exactly matches the developer's version.
Read our article below for more details and to see how easy it (1/2)
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in those can contain trackers or worse and may also omit setting appropriate anti-feature warnings. (2/2)
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@fdroidorg@floss.social This only applies to apps from F-Droids official f-droid.org repository. On 3rd party repositories all bets are off! (Basically all F-Droid compatible repositories other than the one provided by our team on f-droid.org) Apps (1/2)
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be removed, or they would prevent and app from being published. FOSS trackers are allowed, but will be tagged with the tracking anti-feature warning. However, those seem to be rather rare. (2/2)
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@fdroidorg@floss.social To be a little more specific. Non-free (aka proprietary, aka the opposite of free and open source) software is not allowed on the official f-droid.org reposiory. Most trackers are non-free. That's why they violate our policies and have to (1/2)
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On Google Play many FOSS apps contain non-free trackers. That often enough prevents apps from getting into the official f-droid.org repo. So may apps provide a build flavor without non-free dependencies for F-Droid.
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Did you know that #FDroid isn't only informing you about #tracking with anti-feature warnings, but also removes trackers from apps? #FDroidUserSurvey
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The test-results of our latest security audit are in.
f-droid.org/en/2022/12/22/
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Why curation and #decentralization is better than millions of #apps.
f-droid.org/2022/11/23/why
#AppStore #GooglePlay #iOS #Android
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@fdroidorg@floss.social What could make you keep your phones longer? Do you have any tips on improving your phones lifespan?
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How long is your current phone in service?
#FDroidUserSurvey
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We transferred a total of 178,930 GBytes* running f-droid.org last month. It's all paid for with your donations. Want to help #FDroid keep up an running? Consider giving: f-droid.org/donate
(* Numbers don't include traffic handled by community mirrors.)
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Our servers ship app builds/updates pretty much on daily basis now. See f-droid.org/2022/09/20/slo for more info on what other improvements we have planned. 🚀
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Do you use the #android VPN feature? (eg. for your #AdBlocker, or to route internet traffic over #Tor or a #VPN)
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We are very grateful to 🐘ashfurrow@mastodon.technology for hosting the official #FDroid #Mastodon account for four and a half years. We will miss mastodon.technology because it was a great home for us. Many thanks.…
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We're excited to announce that we've finish a major update of our build server infrastructure. We increased the bus factor of our admin team, automated the systems deployment, updated the hardware and also finally upgraded to #Debian bullseye.
We'd like to thank (1/2)
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Digital Restriction Management (or short #DRM) is preventing us from harnessing the true potential of digital media. It enforces artificial scarcity for the sake of upholding outdated business-models. A better world is possible. Lets build it together. Let's abandon (1/2)
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Help our team to spend more time on F-Droid. Please consider donating: f-droid.org/donate
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metadata, which made troubleshooting extra hard. We've added additional tests to catch this type of error before they get a chance to interrupt our services. We're also working on improving web-server architecture. (2/2)
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