Delta chat and end-to-end encryption

TWIF generated on Thursday, 30 Nov 2023, Week 48

F-Droid Core

There is a new release of F-Droid. It is still in alpha at version 1.19.0-alpha2 and it has the following improvements:

• New settings to give user control over IPFS HTTP Gateways
• Enable per-app language selection (@licaon-kter)
• Material Design 2 updates (@proletarius101)
• Fix bug when adding new repo via unofficial mirror

Community News

We want to let you know that the CoC team resigned, two important members left F-Droid two weeks ago and a third one went for an indefinite break. See their announcement for more details. We thank them for all their great contributions that made F-Droid better while they were around.

@linsui comments:

Delta Chat introduces guaranteed end-to-end encryption in 1.42. In previous versions the E2EE was not verified to prevent MitM attacks from the e-mail providers. Now it can be guaranteed by scanning another user’s “QR Invite code”.

More details can be found in the developer blog post.

Removed Apps

2 apps were removed

Ana was archived because it’s no longer maintained and won’t work any more (!14083).

HU Berlin Wi-Fi Installer is not needed as the University is now using another system, “eduroam” (#3135).

Newly Added Apps

2 apps were newly added

ESUP-NFC-TAG-DROID works as a client for an ESUP-NFC-TAG server.

Fruity Game is a casual fruit combination game.

Updated Apps

104 more apps were updated

• Acode editor – Android code editor was updated from 1.8.7 to 1.8.7
• AndBible: Bible Study was updated from 5.0.762 to 5.0.771
• Arcticons was updated from 8.0.6 to 8.2.0
• Arcticons Black was updated from 8.0.6 to 8.2.0
• Audile was updated from 1.1.4 to 1.1.5
• Automation was updated from 1.7.17 to 1.7.19
• BetterCounter was updated from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0
• Binary Eye was updated from 1.61.1 to 1.61.2
• BitBanana was updated from 0.6.8 to 0.7.0
• CameraAlign was updated from 3.1 to 3.2
• Clipious was updated from 1.17.1 to 1.17.3
• Copy SMS Code – OTP Helper was updated from 1.7.1 to 1.8.0
• Cryptographic ID was updated from 0.4.4 to 0.4.5
• Deku SMS was updated from 0.26.0 to 0.29.0
• DetoxDroid: Digital Detoxing as Your New Default was updated from 1.2.2 to 2.0.2
• Drinkable was updated from 1.43.0 to 1.44.0
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated from 5.177.1 to 5.178.0
• EinkBro was updated from 10.16.1 to 10.17.0
• Encointerwallet was updated from 1.11.1 to 1.11.2
• FFUpdater was updated from 78.3.0 to 78.4.0
• FOSS Warn was updated from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1
• FairEmail was updated from 1.2127 to 1.2130
• Fennec F-Droid was updated from 119.1.0 to 120.0.0
• Funktrainer was updated from 1.3.1.4 to 1.3.1.5
• Gauguin was updated from 0.12.1 to 0.13.1
• Glider for Hacker News was updated from 2.3.0 to 2.4.0
• Goodtime – Minimalist Pomodoro Timer was updated from 2.5.8 to 2.6.1
• Graded – Grade tracker was updated from 2.5.0 to 2.5.1
• Grocy: Self-hosted Grocery Management was updated from 3.3.2 to 3.4.1
• HK Transport was updated from 1.0.3 to 1.0.4
• HTTP Request Shortcuts was updated from 3.7.0 to 3.8.0
• Hacki for Hacker News was updated from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2
• Hail was updated from 1.6.0 to 1.7.0
• Husky was updated from 1.5.0 to 1.5.2
• IYPS was updated from 1.4.3 to 1.4.6
• Image Toolbox (Resizer) was updated from 2.4.3-alpha03 to 2.4.3-beta01
• Infomaniak kDrive was updated from 4.2.31 to 4.3.0
• Infomaniak kMeet was updated from 2.5 to 2.6
• Inner Breeze was updated from 1.0.10 to 1.0.11
• JS-Dict was updated from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1
• Jami was updated from 20231103-01 to 20231123-01
• Joplin was updated from 2.13.7 to 2.13.8
• Just (Video) Player was updated from 0.149 to 0.154
• Kakugo was updated from 1.36.4 to 1.36.5
• Keep Screen On was updated from 1.13.1 to 1.14.0
• KitchenOwl was updated from 0.4.16 to 0.4.17
• Kotatsu was updated from 6.3.0 to 6.4
• LibreOffice Viewer was updated from 7.6.2.1/56f768401134/F-Droid-editing to 7.6.3.2-android/8c4c8a83119e/F-Droid
• Linwood Butterfly was updated from 2.0.0-beta.15 to 2.0.0-beta.16
• LogFox was updated from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
• Massive was updated from 2.6 to 2.7
• Mastodon was updated from 2.2.2 to 2.2.4
• Mines3D was updated from 1.4.2 to 1.4.3
• Mull was updated from 119.1.0 to 120.0.0
• Mullvad VPN: privacy is a universal right was updated from 2023.7 to 2023.8-beta1
• My Expenses was updated from 3.6.7.2 to 3.6.8.1
• Next Actualités informatiques was updated from 2.6.9 to 2.7.0
• NextDNS Manager was updated from 4.8 to 4.8.2
• Nextcloud Dev was updated from 20231121 to 20231125
• Nix-on-Droid was updated from 0.118.0_v0.3.3_nix to 0.118.0_v0.3.4_nix
• Noor-Ul-Huda نور الهدى was updated from v1.02 to v1.03
• Notesnook – Private notes app was updated from 2.6.10 to 2.6.12
• OpenVK Legacy was updated from 1.1.213-f to 1.1.214-f
• Orgro was updated from 1.33.3 to 1.34.2
• Oscilloscope was updated from 1.37 to 1.38
• Pachli was updated from 1.4.0 to 2.0.0
• Phonograph Plus was updated from 1.4.0 to 1.4.1
• PipePipe was updated from 3.1.7 to 3.1.8
• PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from 1.2.11 to 1.2.12
• Podverse was updated from 4.14.3 to 4.15.0
• ProtonVPN – Secure and Free VPN was updated from 4.8.38.0 to 4.8.70.0
• Rocket.Chat was updated from 4.42.0 to 4.43.0
• RootlessJamesDSP was updated from 1.6.6 to 1.6.8
• Saber was updated from 0.17.1 to 0.18.0
• SerialPipe was updated from v0.0.2 to v0.0.3
• SerialTest was updated from V0.3.2 to V0.3.3
• Shitter was updated from 3.4.6 to 3.5
• Signal Generator was updated from 1.35 to 1.36
• SilverDict was updated from 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
• Simple Counter was updated from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
• SimpleX Chat was updated from 5.3.2 to 5.4
• SpotiFlyer was updated from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4
• SshDaemon was updated from 2.1.13 to 2.1.14
• Table Habit was updated from 1.9.2 to 1.10.0
• Tabletop Tools was updated from 1.24 to 1.25
• The Light was updated from 3.72 to 3.73
• Trail Sense was updated from 5.4.0 to 5.5.1
• Tusky was updated from 23.0 to 24.0 beta 1
• Unciv was updated from 4.9.0 to 4.9.2-patch2
• Vinyl Music Player was updated from 1.5.6 to 1.6.0
• Voyager for Lemmy was updated from 1.24.2 to 1.26.0
• WG Tunnel was updated from 3.2.1 to 3.2.2
• Wikipedia was updated from r/2.7.50458-r-2023-11-09 to r/2.7.50460-r-2023-11-21
• Xeonjia: Ice Adventures was updated from 2.5.0 to 3.0.0
• ZipXtract was updated from 4.0 to 4.0.1
• Zulip was updated from 27.219 to 27.220
• aTalk was updated from 3.2.2 to 3.2.3
• baresip was updated from 59.1.0 to 59.2.0
• baresip+ was updated from 46.2.0 to 46.3.0
• ente – encrypted photo storage was updated from 0.8.0 to 0.8.1
• ente Authenticator was updated from 2.0.22 to 2.0.25
• monocles chat was updated from 1.7.7.3 to 1.7.7.4
• openHAB Beta was updated from 3.7.8-beta to 3.7.9-beta
• wX was updated from 55836 to 55853

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