Thanks for all your patience, @fdroidorg users! Thunderbird for Android is now available on F-Droid - download away!

#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdforAndroid #fdroid #OpenSource

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.thunderbird.android

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is a lot to read, and also we missed the toot about last week.

In short:
- F-Droid client 1.21 was released, but you should wait for 1.21.1 before you update
- there were some bugs in DAVx⁵, Nextcloud and Tailscale, so be careful in updating these too
- we're working together with @Codeberg to get our builds from apps hosted there working again
- any much more

Read the full details at
https://f-droid.org/2024/10/24/twif.html and https://f-droid.org/de/2024/10/17/twif.html

That's great!

But where I can find a guide to self-host a #FDroid repository?

@fdroidorg @grote

#FDroid (and Basic) 1.20 is here! 🥳
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fdroid.fdroid/
You gotta update manually for now.

You can now select your preferred repository for each app (see screenshot). Thanks to the @fdroidorg team especially @grote for the new release.

Now, can somebody please implement an option to share the link to an installed app instead of directly sharing the full APK? 😬

#FreeSoftware #Android

Three years ago, #FDroid had a similar kind of attempt as the #xz #backdoor. A new contributor submitted a merge request to improve the search, which was oft requested but the maintainers hadn't found time to work on. There was also pressure from other random accounts to merge it. In the end, it became clear that it added a #SQLinjection #vuln. In this case, we managed to catch it before it was merged. Since similar tactics were used, I think its relevant now

https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/merge_requests/889

Search improvements: Sort based on keyword matching and removed alphabetic sort (!889) · Merge requests · F-Droid / Client · GitLab

The search results are pretty unusable currently. So I've changed it to show apps in this order: App name matches keyword, summary matches keyword, description matches keyword. Also,...

^GitLab

We have a new blog post .

@uniqx wrote about how we handle our servers to protect your privacy: https://f-droid.org/2024/03/08/privacy-design-of-fdroid.org-webservers.html #FDroid