F-Droid Client 1.19 alpha and KDE Connect

TWIF generated on Thursday, 19 Oct 2023, Week 42

F-Droid core

F-Droid Client 1.19

F-Droid Client 1.19.0-alpha is almost here. You aren’t ready for this release; please prepare 🙂
Some of the updates in this client release include:

• Completely overhauled adding repositories and mirrors, both the user experience and the code
• Preview repo contents before adding new repos
• Include integrated QR scanner for adding new repos and mirrors
• Use Session Installer on both F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, including support for
  automatic background updates
• On Android 14, mark apps with unsupported Target SDK Version as incompatible #2692
• Long click to copy Links, Permissions and Versions on App Details screen (@Tobias_Groza)
• Incompatible apps are no longer shown anywhere when they are disabled #41 (@pigpig)
• Include lysator7eknrfl47rlyxvgeamrv7ucefgrrlhk7rouv3sna25asetwid.onion as default mirror
• Fix Litecoin button linking to Bitcoin address #2683 (@Tobias_Groza)

Community News

Google removes KDE Connect app installed via F-Droid

This past week, Google Play Protect removed KDE Connect from many users devices because it was installed via F-Droid. The developer tried for days to reach out to the support team at Google to get the issue fixed. You can follow their struggle here.

To learn more about this. please check out this article (in German, links to Reddit discussion in English).

Removed Apps

3 apps were removed

It is sad to report that Dash Electrum and Retroshare are no longer in the official F-Droid Repository.
But they’ll be the F-Droid Archive Repository for the foreseeable future.
The reason for this is that they are not maintained anymore and are affected by the libwebcp CVE vulnerability as we reported in last week’s TWIF.

Private Location was also removed as was no longer functioning and development has stopped years ago, as reported in #3096.

Newly Added Apps

2 apps were newly added

• Canta
• Cosmic IDE

Updated Apps

86 apps were updated

• Acode editor – Android code editor was updated from 1.8.7 to 1.8.7
• AddisMapTransit was updated from 0.3.0 to 1.0.2
• Alovoa was updated from 1.5.0 to 1.6.1
• Android 2 Linux Notifications was updated from 1.2.8 to 1.3.1
• Arcticons Dark was updated from 7.2.6 to 7.3.7
• Arcticons Light was updated from 7.2.6 to 7.3.7
• Arcticons You was updated from 7.2.6 to 7.3.7
• Aria2Android was updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.8
• Aria2App was updated from 5.9.14 to 5.9.16
• Aurora Store was updated from 4.3.2 to 4.3.3
• Blitzortung Lightning Monitor was updated from 2.1.12 to 2.1.14
• Blood pressure monitor was updated from 1.5.3 to 1.5.5
• Ceno Browser: Share the Web was updated from 2.0.3 to 2.0.6
• Clima was updated from 3.1.3 to 3.2.0
• Copy SMS Code – OTP Helper was updated from 1.2.0 to 1.3.0
• DAVx⁵ was updated from 4.3.7-ose to 4.3.8-ose
• Databag was updated from 1.0 to 1.0
• Drinkable was updated from 1.38.0 to 1.39.0
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated from 5.171.1 to 5.172.2
• Editor was updated from 1.88 to 1.89
• F-Droid was updated from 1.18.0-alpha0 to 1.18.0
• F-Droid Basic was updated from 1.18.0-alpha0 to 1.18.0
• FairEmail was updated from 1.2107 to 1.2108
• Feeder was updated from 2.6.5 to 2.6.6
• Finamp was updated from 0.6.17 to 0.6.18
• Fulguris Web Browser was updated from 1.9.15 to 1.9.17
• Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated from 1.19.0 to 1.20.0
• Gotify was updated from 2.7.0 to 2.7.1
• Guileless Bopomofo Keyboard was updated from 1.9.36 to 1.9.42
• HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated from 3.5.0 to 3.6.0
• Home Assistant was updated from 2023.9.2-minimal to 2023.10.2-minimal
• Husky was updated from 1.4.5 to 1.4.6
• Infomaniak kDrive was updated from 4.2.26 to 4.2.30
• Infomaniak kSync was updated from 4.3.7 to 4.3.8
• Insigno was updated from 1.3.1 to 1.4.0
• Jerboa for Lemmy was updated from 0.0.48 to 0.0.49
• JustChess was updated from 2.0 to 2.4
• Kodi was updated from 20.0-ALPHA3 to 20.2
• Ladefuchs was updated from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7
• Loud Bang was updated from 0.47 to 0.48
• MOROway App was updated from 8.1.6 to 8.1.8
• Markor was updated from 2.10.9 to 2.11.1
• Material Files was updated from 1.6.1 to 1.6.2
• Mattermost Beta was updated from 2.8.1 to 2.8.2
• Mull was updated from 118.1.0 to 118.2.0
• Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated from 2023.6 to 2023.7
• MusicBrainz was updated from 6.1.1 to 7.0.0
• Neo Backup was updated from 8.3.3 to 8.3.4
• Nextcloud Dev was updated from 20231008 to 20231012
• Olauncher was updated from v4.1.4 to v4.1.5
• OneTwo was updated from 1.1.9 to 1.2.0
• Open Stable Diffusion was updated from 1.6 to 1.7
• OpenLauncher was updated from 0.7.4 to 1.0.0
• OpenTracks was updated from v4.9.0 to v4.9.1
• Overload was updated from 0.11.0 to 0.11.1
• Pachli was updated from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
• PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10
• ReLaunchX was updated from 2.1.5 to 2.1.6
• Reader for Selfoss was updated from 123061811-github to 123102852-github
• Really Basic Vocab was updated from 3.3.2 to 3.3.3
• Rtl-sdr driver was updated from 3.14 to 3.15
• SMS Import / Export was updated from 2.1.0 to 2.2.0
• Screenshot Tile (NoRoot) was updated from 2.3.5 to 2.3.7
• SelfPrivacy was updated from 0.9.0 to 0.9.1
• Session F-Droid was updated from 1.17.1 to 1.17.3
• SimpMusic was updated from 0.1.3-beta to 0.1.4-beta
• Simple Gallery Pro was updated from 6.28.0 to 6.28.1
• SimpleX Chat was updated from 5.3.1 to 5.3.2
• SshDaemon was updated from 2.1.9 to 2.1.10
• TTL Changer was updated from 1.1.1 to 1.2.0
• Taler Wallet was updated from 0.9.3+p7 to 0.9.3+p8
• Tournant was updated from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3
• Tuner was updated from 1.52 to 1.53
• URLCheck was updated from 2.12 to 2.13
• Unlauncher was updated from 2.0.0-beta.5 to 2.0.0
• VCMI was updated from 1.4 to 1.3.2
• Vinyl Music Player was updated from 1.5.2 to 1.5.3
• WG Tunnel was updated from 3.0.3 to 3.1.0
• Wikipedia was updated from r/2.7.50452-r-2023-09-06 to r/2.7.50454-r-2023-10-10
• YAACC was updated from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2
• Zulip was updated from 27.214 to 27.216
• ente – encrypted photo storage was updated from 0.7.93 to 0.7.100
• ente Authenticator was updated from 2.0.6 to 2.0.8
• gptAssist was updated from 1.9 to 1.10
• monocles chat was updated from 1.7.4 to 1.7.5
• neutriNote CE was updated from 4.4.6a to 4.4.7

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