This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 08 May 2026, Week 19 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha9, but that’s old news by now. Go update and test! We also fixed our website generation, as build cycles added apps updates, new apps and posts, yet...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 30 Apr 2026, Week 18 F-Droid core F-Droid and Basic alpha testing is working great, we’ve seen a pattern of issues that we’ve fixed and we’ve refined the UI with more user feedback and experiences. If you’re free in the next few...

I am pleased to be able to announce this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We received a record number of nominations, and it was difficult to make a selection between so many excellent candidates. Thank you to everyone who spent the time to make a nomination, and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 24 Apr 2026, Week 17 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha8. We are hard at work fixing the crashes you submit and also lending an ear to our user studies on how to polish the experience beyond us...

If you have ever tried explaining the concept of free software to someone who is locked into a proprietary software ecosystem, you were probably met with some degree of confusion. The first question, “But if it’s free, how do the people that create it get paid?” And while it is...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 16 Apr 2026, Week 16 F-Droid core F-Droid and F-Droid Basic were updated to 2.0-alpha7 as we start testing the Full client. Hopefully more can now join in testing so we get the ‘full’ picture of our ecosystem, and we can catch...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 09 Apr 2026, Week 15 F-Droid core Mirrors are an integral part of F-Droid, as a vector for decentralization and user freedom. Besides our main servers, we had about 16 mirrors spread between Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, France, Sweden, Taiwan, Singapore and...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 03 Apr 2026, Week 14 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha6, and we’ve announced it already in a, we hoped, humorous toot back on April first. That ending flew over some heads or maybe people want to hear more good...