Nominations are now open for this year’s appointments to the F-Droid Board of Directors! We are looking to select up to four volunteer directors to serve for two years each. You may nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission). Please send nominations by email to board-nominations@f-droid.org (one email per...

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requirement for building and distributing Android applications worldwide. Android, currently an open platform where anyone can develop and distribute applications freely, is to become a locked-down platform,...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 20 Feb 2026, Week 8 F-Droid core During our talks with F-Droid users at FOSDEM26 we were baffled to learn most were relieved that Google has canceled their plans to lock-down Android. Why baffled? Because no such thing actually happened, the plans...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Monday, 09 Feb 2026, Week 7 F-Droid core On 31 January & 1 February 2026 in Brussels, Belgium, part of the F-Droid Team and Board were at FOSDEM 2026. We had a booth to present our project but also had flyers, stickers, camera...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Thursday, 29 Jan 2026, Week 5 F-Droid core F-Droid Basic was updated to 2.0-alpha1 fixing little things: Show issue for apps we had installed with different signer Manual repo update icon now is ‘Sync’ Fix some changelog logic, pick better Don’t show issues...

Over the past year, we have been busy to modernize our app. The work supported by the NGI Mobifree has progressed nicely and we are now at a point where we are releasing the first alpha version and ask the community for feedback and testing. Note that for now this...

This Week in F-Droid TWIF curated on Friday, 23 Jan 2026, Week 4 F-Droid core Back in March 2024 we announced our switch to Debian version 12 (named Bookworm) and today we are announcing our upgrade to version 13 nicknamed Debian Trixie. We have been testing this internally for months...

2025 was a big year for F-Droid. Not only did we celebrate 15 years of securely distributing FOSS apps to users around the world, we onboarded new maintainers, board members and project collaborators, invested in infrastructure upgrades, and played an active role in independent app store and FOSS developer advocacy....