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This Week in F-Droid
TWIF curated on Thursday, 07 Nov 2024, Week 45
Community News
Fennec F-Droid and Mull were updated to 132.0.0, after a two months hiatus where everyone was holding their breath, while we didn’t have time to catch our breath. Lost dependencies, home movements, angry forum posts, rebuilt dependencies, angry toots, added NDKs, stopped cycles (twice!), changed built dependencies, explainer toots, timeouts, closed forum threads, it was a non-stop roller coaster, yet compressed in a slit of time and only for two apps.
In other news, Fennec has Translations activated by default. This enables users to read any (supported) language text without leaving the current page.
While we didn’t expect any drama, Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox, A 100% open source, privacy focused email app, (yes the one of Desktop fame!), and its companion Thunderbird Beta for Testers were newly included. They are based on K-9 Mail, also updated to 8.0, but with some cosmetic and branding differences. A little bit of backstory, back in 2022 it was announced that K-9 Mail joins the Thunderbird family, so it was just a matter of time for it to become the new app.
And the time has come, the app is ready, albeit most K-9 users got notified about this launch because of a Mozilla source code repo mistake, as the metadata (icon, pics, text) of K-9 were mixed up with Thunderbird and F-Droid said it will update Thunderbird Beta for Testers instead of K-9. Fediverse and our Forum users got up in arms at this bit of info, only visible in F-Droid, that felt like an app takeover, and unfortunately many jumped to conclusions and uninstalled K-9 instead of looking in their launchers to see that there’s no new app and K-9 is still fine. All is well now, and many took this opportunity to switch to Thunderbird following the import steps.
What about K-9’s future? Well, Mozilla says they “plan to continue maintaining and releasing K-9 Mail for approximately one year after the release of Thunderbird for Android”.
Ghost Commander was updated to 1.64.1b1 and we took the opportunity to note that on newer Android versions SFTP connections that use Kerberos authentication might not work as a dependency is missing.
Removed Apps
3 apps were removed
- MTA Fare Buster: Calculate NYC MTA metrocard prices
- Offline Puzzle Solver: Solves various kinds of puzzle (Sudoku, N-Queens)
- pretixdroid: Validates tickets generated by pretix (Superseded by pretixSCAN which was also updated to
2.10.0)
Newly Added Apps
8 more apps were newly added
- BabbyPaint: Simple little paint application for kids
- FOSS4G 2024 Schedule: Conference program app for the FOSS4G 2024 conference in Belém, Brazil
- Journal: Keep track of substance usage to gain insights on consumption patterns
- LabLog: A digital lab notebook with automatic timestamping
- Lissen: Audiobookshelf client: Clean Audiobookshelf Player
- Muzei Pixiv Source: Fetch illustration from Pixiv and provides them as a wallpaper source for muzei
- NotallyX | Minimalistic note taking app: A simple and minimalistic open source notes app
- WikiReader: Read Wikipedia pages distraction-free
Updated Apps
106 more apps were updated
(expand for the full list)
- addy.io was updated to
v5.4.0 - Aer – Fork of Anemo was updated to
2024.10.31 - AnkiDroid: Flashcards was updated to
2.19.1 - ANOTHERpass was updated to
2.0.2 - APM was updated to
3.0.1 - Audio Recorder was updated to
3.5.22 - Aves Libre was updated to
1.11.17 - Bangle.js Gadgetbridge was updated to
0.82.0-banglejs - baresip was updated to
61.1.0 - baresip+ was updated to
48.1.0 - BILIBILIAS was updated to
2.0.46 - Bitcoin Wallet was updated to
10.19 - Bitcoin Wallet [testnet3] was updated to
10.19 - Boxcars was updated to
1.4.5 - Caffeinate was updated to
1.6.0 - Candle was updated to
1.7.0 - Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated to
14.3 - Catima — Loyalty Card Wallet was updated to
2.32.1 - Cavity was updated to
1.7.1 - Chance was updated to
1.2.2 - ChatLaunch for WhatsApp was updated to
v0.13.2 - Cirrus was updated to
3.4 - Clock was updated to
2.9 - ColorBlendr was updated to
v1.9 - Compose Stopwatch was updated to
1.8.2 - Delta Icon Pack was updated to
1.9.7 - Doodle: Live Wallpapers was updated to
6.0.0 - Element X – Secure Chat & Call was updated to
0.7.2 - FairEmail was updated to
1.2244 - FetchIt was updated to
1.4 - Find My Device (FMD) was updated to
0.9.0 - Fossify Phone was updated to
1.3.0 - Gadgetbridge was updated to
0.82.0 - Geto was updated to
1.16.1 - GLPI Agent was updated to
1.6.0 - GPTMobile was updated to
0.5.3 - Gramophone was updated to
1.0.15 - Hammer [ALPHA] was updated to
1.9.2 - idTech4A++ was updated to
1.1.0harmattan58natasha - Imagepipe was updated to
0.70 - Immich was updated to
1.119.0 - Infomaniak kDrive was updated to
5.2.1 - Infomaniak Mail was updated to
1.6.3 - Jellyfin for Android TV was updated to
0.17.9 - Keep Screen On was updated to
1.20.3 - kitshn (for Tandoor) was updated to
1.0.0-alpha.10.2 - Ladefuchs was updated to
3.1.4 - LibreOffice & OpenOffice document reader | ODF was updated to
3.32 - LibreOffice Viewer was updated to
24.2.7.2 - Linwood Butterfly Nightly was updated to
2.2.2-rc.0 - Léon – The URL Cleaner was updated to
46 - Mastodon was updated to
2.8.0 - Materialious was updated to
1.6.22 - MedTimer was updated to
1.10.5 - Menu Generator was updated to
2.1.0 - Money Manager Ex was updated to
2024.11.01 - moreDays was updated to
1.0.24 - MusicSearch was updated to
1.8.0-beta.8 - My Expenses was updated to
3.9.0.1 - NanoLedger was updated to
0.6.3 - NewsBlur was updated to
13.3.1 - Nextcloud was updated to
3.30.4 - Nextcloud Dev was updated to
20241101 - Obtainium was updated to
1.1.29 - Offi was updated to
13.0.6 - Open Food Facts was updated to
4.16.0 - openHAB Beta was updated to
3.16.4-beta - Orgro was updated to
1.45.3 - ownCloud was updated to
4.4.1 - Pachli for Mastodon was updated to
2.8.3 - Pagan was updated to
1.5.11 - Peristyle was updated to
v5.0.0 - PinPoi was updated to
1.11.1 - Podcini.R – Podcast instrument was updated to
6.13.2 - Proton Pass: Password Manager was updated to
1.26.2 - PySolFC was updated to
3.1.0 - Quote Unquote was updated to
4.46.1-fdroid - Really Basic Vocab was updated to
3.4.4 - RomanDigital was updated to
1.2.0 - RustDesk was updated to
1.3.2 - SatDump was updated to
1.2.1 - Satunes was updated to
2.4.2 - Seafile was updated to
3.0.5 - Share Paste O2 was updated to
2024.10.29 - Sharing was updated to
v1.5.4-alpha2 - ShowCase was updated to
1.1 - Simple Crypto Widget was updated to
8.6.0 - SimpleTextEditor was updated to
1.26.2 - Sleep Timer was updated to
1.3.1 - Sound Quick Settings was updated to
1.0.6 - StreetComplete was updated to
60.0-alpha1 - Thumb-Key was updated to
4.0.2 - Tilde Friends was updated to
0.0.24 - TonUINO NFC Tools was updated to
1.0.3 - Traditional T9 was updated to
40.0 - Transistor – Simple Radio App was updated to
4.2.2 - Trime was updated to
3.3.1 - Träwelldroid was updated to
2.15.7 - Tuta Calendar was updated to
250.241025.0 - Tuta Mail was updated to
250.241025.0 - Unciv was updated to
4.14.3 - Wikipedia was updated to
r/2.7.50507-r-2024-10-21 - Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was updated to
3.0.4 - Xray was updated to
8.0.0 - Your local weather was updated to
6.0.4 - Yubico Authenticator was updated to
7.1.1
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