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Unattended updates for everyone, 1.19 is here

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Michael G

Author: linsui
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TWIF generated on Thursday, 01 Feb 2024, Week 5

F-Droid core šŸŽ‰

We announced last year that client work is underway to bring it up to the target that future Android users and devs want. In the mean time we kept teasing at every opportunity the coming of F-Droid client version 1.19.0, releasing alpha after alpha and polishing the experience each time.

Hence here we are, F-Droid and F-Droid Basic 1.19.0 have been live for a couple of days already, but in good ā€œF-Droid is slowā€ spirit, it’s not yet the suggested version. Meaning that brave users need to install this manually for now (enable Beta updates for the app or expand Versions and hit upgrade). As users update and there’s a feeling of a good release, 1.19.0 will become suggested soon enough.

What’s new? The Changelog has the gritty details, but we can highlight two of the user facing changes:

  • ā€œUse Session Installer on both F-Droid and F-Droid Basic, including support for automatic background updatesā€ – yes, this is the big one, the one that everybody wanted since forever. On Android 12 or later, apps will be autoupdated after the first install or first update, no root, no unlocking, no PrivExt needed. Older apps that can’t be updated will feature a banner explaining why.
  • ā€œCompletely overhauled adding repositories and mirrors, both the user experience and the codeā€ – while mirrors and repositories were either a daily used feature or a never seen before feature for our users, they have kept a simple way to interact until now, Add and Remove were enough. Over the years this proved a little underwhelming so a new workflow was conceived and coded. In short, paste repo link or use QR code, see list of apps before adding it, see apps from a single repo, all new features that make repositories a joy to use. Mirrors like to keep things chill and in the background, but they are expanding and getting easier to control, as plain servers, Tor .onion hosted or via IPFS gateways.

Thanks to everyone that contributed, be it reporting issues, fixing their pet peeves, adding new features, submitting ACRA crash reports or just being around helping in any capacity!

Note: Xiaomi users should keep an eye on issue #2659.

Community News

FOSDEM is tomorrow, so get your updates for FOSDEM 2024 Schedule and FOSDEM Companion today. For your next quest, try to find at least one F-Droid contributor on the floor. Go!

@linsui blocks some calls šŸ“µ to tell us about:

Aard 2 was downgraded from 0.56 to 0.55 pending an app rebuild, the new version will be available again soon.

Carrion was included recently trying to help in the fight against spam calls and robocalls. Do read the README to find out the needed requirements and how to set it up.

drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking was updated to 1.2311.14 after more than an year lapse.

ClashMetaForAndroid was declared gone 3 months ago after some mysterious events, yet it made a comeback at version 2.10.0 this week and we hope it stays in the long run.

And still in proxy news, Xray, Xray GUI Client, was added too.

@Licaon_Kter waves the green flag:

Fossify Contacts and Fossify SMS Messenger are now here, making your launcher seem monochromatic.

SimpleX Chat arm64 was updated to 5.5, while the armv7 version will come in the next build cycle.

Spring Cleaning ā˜”

  • Calendula was downgraded from 2.4.1 to 2.3.3. (upstream issue)
  • Car Cast got archived as it crashes at least on Android 6 and 13, while development has stopped
  • Lawnchair included code of dubious origin, disassembled from somewhere, without a license, so now it is archived (more info)
  • Libre Memory Game was added recently but its recipe needs a rewrite from scratch, so it was pulled out for now (discussion)
  • Minutes Checker for Virgin Mobile was failing to do its work, given the API used is long gone it is now archived
  • Plant Sense had all its versions removed as they were affected by a long standing Flutter issue actually (upstream issue)
  • TalkBack (deprecated) was archived as newer builds use a different appID: TalkBack
  • Who Has My Stuff? was downgraded from 1.1.0 to 1.0.38 (upstream issue)
  • Wifi Camera was archived as it was built such a long time ago that Android 6 or later refused to even install it

Newly Added Apps

11 more apps were newly added
  • Circles – Secure social sharing for friends and families (Matrix client)
  • Closet-Archive – Organize clothes, log events, track laundry, and recall last week’s outfit
  • FoCal – Create your personal photo calendar
  • Het Saldo – A cross-platform De Lijn ā€œsmartā€ ticket saldo checking application
  • Hisn Elmoslem – You favourite app to azkar
  • Jass board – Very flexible Jass board to write points at the Schieber, Coiffeur, Molotov
  • Micro REPL – MicroPython IDE in your pocket
  • OpenTapasReader – Read Tapas.io comics (with offline support)
  • Openlib – Download and read books from shadow library (Anna’s Archive)
  • Peristyle – Simple wallpaper manager app for Android
  • Same – Two colors, nine fields. Make them all the same.

Updated Apps

201 more apps were updated
  • 37C3 Schedule was updated from 1.62.0 to 1.63.0
  • Accordion was updated from 1.21 to 1.22
  • Ad-silence was updated from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1-prod
  • AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously was updated from 1.1.16 to 1.1.17
  • AndBible: Bible Study was updated from 5.0.793 to 5.0.794
  • AndroidIDE was updated from v2.7.0-beta to v2.7.1-beta
  • AniHyou – AniList client was updated from 1.2.3-1 to 1.2.4-1
  • Arcticons was updated from 8.3.1 to 8.6.7
  • Arcticons Black was updated from 8.3.1 to 8.6.7
  • Audio Share was updated from 0.0.15 to 0.0.17
  • AusweisApp was updated from 2.0.2 to 2.0.3
  • Auxio was updated from 3.3.1 to 3.3.3
  • BLE Radar was updated from 0.21.6-beta to 0.22.6-beta
  • Blazed Cloud was updated from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3
  • Box, Box! was updated from 0.6.5 to 0.7.0
  • Boxcars was updated from 1.2.5 to 1.2.7
  • Bubble was updated from 2.6 to 2.7
  • BusTO was updated from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
  • CIFS Documents Provider was updated from 2.0.2 to 2.1.0
  • CTU Menza was updated from 1.2.7 to 1.3.2
  • Cache Cleaner was updated from 1.9.9 to 1.10.5
  • Canta was updated from 1.2.0 to 1.2.1
  • Casio G-Shock Smart Sync was updated from 11.7 to 11.9
  • Classical Music Tagger was updated from 1.9.4 to 1.9.5
  • Compass was updated from 1.13.0 to 1.13.1
  • Copy SMS Code – OTP Helper was updated from 1.12.0 to 1.13.0
  • Cuppa – Tea Timer was updated from 2.4.0 to 2.5.0
  • Cuscon was updated from 3.0.3.5 to 4.0.0.3
  • Dagger: Dota 2 Stats was updated from 1.3.5 to 1.3.6
  • DankChat was updated from 3.9.7 to 3.9.9
  • Dart Checker was updated from 0.7.3 to 0.7.4
  • Deku SMS was updated from 0.36.0 to 0.37.0
  • DetoxDroid: Digital Detoxing as Your New Default was updated from 2.0.4 to 2.0.5
  • DuckDuckGo Privacy Browser was updated from 5.181.1 to 5.185.2
  • DumpSeeker was updated from 1.3 to 1.4
  • EasySync was updated from 1.4 to 1.5
  • EinkBro was updated from 11.0.0 to 11.3.1
  • Emerald Dialer was updated from 1.0.14 to 1.0.15
  • Escapepod – Podcast Player was updated from 1.5.0 to 1.5.1
  • Etar – OpenSource Calendar was updated from 1.0.39 to 1.0.41
  • F-Droid Build Status was updated from 5.0.5 to 5.0.6
  • FREE Browser was updated from 2.3 to 2.5
  • FairEmail was updated from 1.2149 to 1.2152
  • FastLyrics was updated from 0.4.0 to 0.5.1
  • Fedilab was updated from 3.26.0 to 3.27.1
  • Feeder was updated from 2.6.14 to 2.6.15
  • Fennec F-Droid was updated from 121.1.0 to 122.0.0
  • Flashy was updated from 1.6 to 2.0
  • FluffyChat was updated from 1.17.1 to 1.17.2
  • Forkgram was updated from 10.5.0.0 to 10.6.1.0
  • Fulguris Web Browser was updated from 1.9.17 to 1.9.22
  • Gadgetbridge was updated from 0.77.0 to 0.78.0
  • Gallery for PhotoPrism was updated from 1.22.0 to 1.23.0
  • Gauguin was updated from 0.18.0 to 0.19.1
  • Geto was updated from 1.8 to 1.13
  • Giggity was updated from 2.1.2 to 2.1.3
  • Groestlcoin Wallet was updated from 10.07 to 10.07.1
  • Groestlcoin Wallet TestNet was updated from 10.07 to 10.07.1
  • GuessIron was updated from 2.0 to 3.0
  • HACS was updated from 2.12.0 to 2.13.2
  • Hammer [ALPHA] was updated from 1.5.4 to 1.6.0
  • Home Assistant was updated from 2023.12.4-minimal to 2024.1.2-minimal
  • Iconeration was updated from 1.2.1 to 1.3.0
  • Immich was updated from 1.92.1 to 1.93.2
  • Inflation Calculator was updated from 2.16 to 2.17
  • Infomaniak kDrive was updated from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2
  • Inner Breeze was updated from 1.2.6 to 1.2.8
  • Interval Timer was updated from 1.0.5 to 1.0.7
  • Inure App Manager (Trial) was updated from Build99.0.1 to Build99.0.3
  • Invoice Ninja was updated from 5.0.148 to 5.0.152
  • Jami was updated from 20231228-01 to 20240126-01
  • Keep Alive was updated from 1.0.5 to 1.1.1
  • Keep Screen On was updated from 1.16.1 to 1.16.2
  • Kore was updated from v2.5.3 to v3.1.0
  • Kotatsu was updated from 6.6.3 to 6.6.6
  • KurobaEx was updated from v1.3.29 to v1.3.31
  • Les Pas – Photo Album for Nextcloud was updated from 2.9.6 to 2.9.7
  • Lexica was updated from 3.11.0 to 3.12.0
  • Linphone – open source SIP client was updated from 5.2.1 to 5.2.2
  • Linwood Butterfly was updated from 2.0.1 to 2.0.2-rc.0
  • LocalMonero: buy XMR privately was updated from 1.1.16 to 1.1.17
  • Lyrics Grabbr was updated from 0.3.5 to 1.0.0
  • M.A.L.P. was updated from 1.2.12 to 1.3.0
  • M3U was updated from 1.13.6 to 1.14.0-alpha13
  • MOROway App was updated from 9.0.2 to 9.1.0
  • Melodeon was updated from 1.18 to 1.19
  • Mercurygram was updated from 10.5.0.2 to 10.6.1.1
  • Money Manager Ex was updated from 2024.01.13 to 2024.01.23
  • Mull was updated from 121.1.0 to 122.0.0
  • Mumla was updated from 3.6.5 to 3.6.6
  • Musify was updated from 7.1.2 to 7.4.0
  • My Expenses was updated from 3.7.1.1 to 3.7.2.1
  • National Geographic for Muzei was updated from 2.4.4 to 2.4.5
  • Nekome was updated from 2.2.0 to 2.2.2
  • NextDNS Manager was updated from 4.8.2 to 4.8.3
  • NextPush was updated from 1.8.1 to 1.9.0
  • Nextcloud Dev was updated from 20240113 to 20240127
  • Nextcloud Yaga was updated from 0.40.5 to 0.42.1
  • OI File Manager was updated from 2.2.3 to 2.3.1
  • OONI Probe was updated from 3.8.5.1 to 3.8.6
  • Oinkoin was updated from 1.0.39 to 1.0.43
  • Ojo RTSP IP Camera viewer was updated from 0.1.2 to 0.1.3
  • OpenAthenaā„¢ for Android was updated from 0.19.5 to 0.19.6
  • OpenBike was updated from v1.3 to v1.4
  • OpenComicVine was updated from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2
  • OpenTracks was updated from v4.10.1 to v4.11.0
  • OpenVK Legacy was updated from 1.2.233-f to 1.2.234-f
  • Orgro was updated from 1.36.2 to 1.37.4
  • OsmAnd~ was updated from 4.6.11 to 4.6.12
  • Osram Remote was updated from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4
  • Overload was updated from 0.12.4 to 0.14.0
  • Package Manager was updated from v7.0 to v7.1
  • Pagan Music Sequencer was updated from 1.3.14 to 1.3.15
  • Paperless Mobile was updated from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1
  • PasswdSafe was updated from 6.23.4 to 6.24.0
  • Pedometer (PFA) was updated from 3.0.1 to 3.1.0
  • Phase10Counter was updated from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
  • PhotoChiotte was updated from 1.48 to 1.49
  • Pie Launcher was updated from 1.16.1 to 1.17.5
  • PipePipe was updated from 3.1.10 to 3.2.0
  • PixelDroid was updated from 1.0.beta26 to 1.0.beta27
  • PlainApp: File & Web Access was updated from 1.2.28 to 1.2.35
  • ProtonVPN – Secure and Free VPN was updated from 4.9.29.0 to 4.9.40.5
  • Pulsar was updated from 1.1 to 1.2
  • Pushie was updated from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
  • QR Scanner (PFA) was updated from 4.5.0 to 4.5.9
  • Quadermas was updated from 7.1 to 7.2
  • Reader for Selfoss was updated from 124010032-github to 124010191-github
  • Remote Video Camera was updated from 2.7 to 2.8
  • RiMusic was updated from 0.6.16.1 to 0.6.19
  • Ricochlime was updated from 1.1.2 to 1.1.3
  • Saber was updated from 0.19.0 to 0.19.2
  • Safe Space was updated from 1.3.0 to 1.4.1
  • Save Locally: Share2Storage was updated from 0.9.0 to 1.0.1
  • SchildiChat was updated from 1.6.8.sc74 to 1.6.10.sc75
  • ScreenStream was updated from 4.0.30 to 4.0.31
  • SelfPrivacy was updated from 0.9.1 to 0.10.0
  • Shattered Pixel Dungeon was updated from 2.2.1 to 2.3.0
  • SimpMusic was updated from 0.1.7 to 0.1.8
  • Simple Crypto Widget was updated from 8.5.1 to 8.5.3
  • Simple Time Tracker was updated from 1.34 to 1.35
  • Souvenirs was updated from 2.8.3 to 2.8.5
  • Squawker was updated from 3.6.0 to 3.6.4
  • Standard Notes was updated from 3.184.3 to 3.186.1
  • Stocks Widget was updated from 3.9.830 to 3.9.832
  • Super Retro Mega Wars was updated from 0.32.0 to 0.32.1
  • SysLog was updated from 2.4.2 to 2.5.0
  • Tarock Palčka was updated from 0.1.2 to 1.0.1
  • Telegram FOSS was updated from 10.3.2 to 10.6.1
  • The Light was updated from 3.76 to 3.78
  • The Verge wallpapers for Muzei was updated from 1.0.4 to 1.0.5
  • Threema Libre was updated from 5.2.1l to 5.2.2l
  • Thumb-Key was updated from 2.6.6 to 2.6.9
  • TimePlanner was updated from 0.8.1 to 0.9.0
  • TimeR Machine was updated from 7.3.0 to 7.4.0
  • Tinc App was updated from 0.38 to 0.39
  • Trail Sense was updated from 5.6.2 to 5.7.2
  • Transdroid was updated from 2.5.23 to 2.5.24
  • Transdrone was updated from 2.5.19 to 2.5.24
  • Transportr – Public Transit was updated from 2.2.0 to 2.2.1
  • Trekarta was updated from 2023.12 to 2024.01
  • Tremotesf was updated from 2.10.0 to 2.10.1
  • Tuta Mail was updated from 3.120.5 to 3.121.4
  • Twire was updated from 2.10.8 to 2.10.9
  • Unciv was updated from 4.9.18 to 4.10.3-patch1
  • Unstoppable Wallet was updated from 0.37.1 to 0.37.2
  • VCMI was updated from 1.4.2 to 1.4.5
  • Valv was updated from 1.5.1 to 1.5.2
  • Vanilla Music was updated from 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
  • Vespucci was updated from 19.3.2.0 to 19.3.3.0
  • Vibrator was updated from 1.0.1 to 1.0.2
  • Voice Audiobook Player was updated from 8.1.3 to 8.2.0
  • Voyager for Lemmy was updated from 1.35.0 to 1.37.3
  • WG Tunnel was updated from 3.3.3 to 3.3.4-test1
  • Wikipedia was updated from r/2.7.50463-r-2023-12-04 to r/2.7.50466-r-2024-01-09
  • Wulkanowy was updated from 2.3.3 to 2.3.5
  • Xtra was updated from 2.27.1 to 2.27.4
  • ZipXtract was updated from 4.2 to 4.3
  • Zulip was updated from 27.222 to 27.223
  • aTalk was updated from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2
  • addy.io (formerly AnonAddy) was updated from v5.0.0 to v5.0.1
  • baresip was updated from 59.3.0 to 59.4.0
  • baresip+ was updated from 46.4.0 to 46.5.0
  • blocker was updated from 2.0.3511 to 2.0.3607
  • dawdle was updated from 1.3.0.1 to 1.3.1
  • eduVPN was updated from 3.2.0 to 3.2.1
  • ente – encrypted photo storage was updated from 0.8.13 to 0.8.48
  • iTracing2 was updated from 2.5.8 to 2.5.9
  • monocles browser was updated from 1.9 to 1.9.1
  • monocles chat was updated from 1.7.8.6 to 1.7.8.7
  • neutriNote CE was updated from 4.4.9e to 4.4.9f
  • ntodotxt was updated from 0.4.3 to 0.4.4
  • openHAB was updated from 3.8.0 to 3.9.0
  • openHAB Beta was updated from 3.8.6-beta to 3.9.1-beta
  • pOT-Droid was updated from 5.4.0 to 5.4.1
  • personalDNSfilter was updated from 1.50.54.1 to 1.50.55.1
  • pretixSCAN was updated from 2.5.2 to 2.6.1
  • timeto.me was updated from 2023.12.18 to 2024.01.19
  • trale was updated from 0.4.6 to 0.5.0
  • wger Workout Manager was updated from 1.6.3 to 1.6.4
  • ę‹·č“ę¼«ē”» was updated from 2.0.6 to 2.1.1

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