As part of #FDroid announced #OTF funded work, we are doing a little research into #FLOSS #FOSS donations management best practices and preferences and want to hear from you!

If you have time, check out our 5 minute survey: https://framaforms.org/foss-developer-and-project-maintainer-survey-on-donations-campaigns-and-fund-management-1753633511

Thanks

As part of #FDroid announced #OTF funded work, we are doing a little research into #FLOSS #FOSS donations management best practices and preferences and want to hear from you!

If you have time, check out our 5 minute survey: https://framaforms.org/foss-developer-and-project-maintainer-survey-on-donations-campaigns-and-fund-management-1753633511

Thanks

Back in April we asked you for a helping hand regarding legal matters. We got plenty of people willing to help or at least to guide us towards other like-minded projects that might have the experience we were looking for.

Our of those discussions #FDroid will publish a series of posts that go through all the lessons learned and we hope these will be useful to all #FLOSS #FOSS contributors, maintainers, and developers out there.

Take a 10 minute break for the intro: https://f-droid.org/2025/08/04/legal-one.html

Back in April we asked you for a helping hand regarding legal matters. We got plenty of people willing to help or at least to guide us towards other like-minded projects that might have the experience we were looking for.

Our of those discussions #FDroid will publish a series of posts that go through all the lessons learned and we hope these will be useful to all #FLOSS #FOSS contributors, maintainers, and developers out there.

Take a 10 minute break for the intro: https://f-droid.org/2025/08/04/legal-one.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* 1.23.1 has been released, update already!
* Metadata mixups? We're working to fix them!
* #Secuso apps now exclusive to F-Droid
* #SessionMessenger goes Pro
+ 10 new apps
& 104 more updates
- 6 removed apps

Stay up to speed: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/31/twif.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live:

* The cycle decoded part 2
* #Conversations_im & #Quicksy internal refactoring
* #Jami is more accessible
* Get your people on #SimpleX
* Dial #K9Mail & #Thunderbird up to 11
* Main #AnySoftKeyboard app updated too
+ 8 new apps
& 222 more updates

Get comfortable for a long read in: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/24/twif.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live, delayed to catch a fix:

* Index updates are updating indexes again
* Categories backgrounds make a short comeback
* UpstreamNonFree goes away
* #AnySoftKeyboard dominates the lists!
+ 6 new apps
& 96 updates
> 60 ASK apps touched
- 20 apps achived

Touch, don't type: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/17/twif.html

"Hey Google, what is Android?"

* "Android is... quarterly source-code over the wall called AOSP"
* "Android is... not GMS or Play Integrity"
* "Android is... not the device trees or driver binaries of Pixel phones"
* "Android is... not part of the monthly security reports"

And today, we discover, "Android is... not system-images;android-36;default" per https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/432143095

The F in #FDroid stands for "freedom", but there's no "F" in Android... nor any promises.

2/2

The last index update triggered a bug in the official #FDroid client, and Basic: you'll see a toast with "not nullable: icon" and the index won't update. We have reverted the related change and working on fixing the bug. The fix will take about two build cycles to be deployed, so about one week. You can get the latest index now by cleaning app data/reinstalling, but setup your 3-rd party repos and priorities back. Or better remove&re-add only the F-Droid repo.

Tracking: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/3054

The last index update triggered a bug in the official #FDroid client, and Basic: you'll see a toast with "not nullable: icon" and the index won't update. We have reverted the related change and working on fixing the bug. The fix will take about two build cycles to be deployed, so about one week. You can get the latest index now by cleaning app data/reinstalling, but setup your 3-rd party repos and priorities back. Or better remove&re-add only the F-Droid repo.

Tracking: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/-/issues/3054

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is live, but there's nothing to see here, move along:

* A bug fix for Android 16
* Categories overload
* and their backgrounds will go away
* One random app key change
+ 8 new apps
& 73 more updates

Do not click: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/10/twif.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF) has been live since last week, what you've missed:

* More categories and a Client bugfix WiP
* More appid and key changes
* #DAVx5 now with #UnifiedPush support
* #FennecFDroid search engine shenanigans, check your settings now!
* 15 years on #OSMAnd and better navigation
+ 4 new apps
& 131 more updates

Get up to speed: https://f-droid.org/2025/07/03/twif.html

While we don't promote non-#FOSS apps, we can salute #Brave for setting up their own #FDroid repository for #BraveBrowser. @brave how about a fully FOSS browser in f-droid.org next? 😉

How to add? Follow: https://brave.com/blog/f-droid/