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This week in #FDroid (TWIF):

- european-alternatives.eu lists software and apps that come from the EU, some of them are regular guests in our TWIF
- we found a YouTube video about apps that are NOT on a centralized app store
- aTox and UniPatcher were updated again after a long hiatus
- Kodi fixed many bugs
- OsmAnd~ has a lot of new features
- Status, VLC and Zulip were also updated (and 111 more apps)
- MRT Buddy is new and helps you commute in Dhaka

Read more at https://f-droid.org/2024/11/21/twif.html

This week in #FDroid (TWIF):

- Inter Profile Sharing was added, so that you can share data between user profiles
- Headwind MDM Agent was updated, offering a FOSS mobile device management solution
- Minetest was renamed to Lunati
- OSM Dashboard (Offline) for OpenTracks is now reproducible, which means you have to re-install it to get this and future updates
- we archived the apps from Simple Mobile Tools (use the Fossify apps instead)

Read the details and more at https://f-droid.org/2024/11/14/twif.html

Hello dear K-9 users!

You probably got a suggested updated for K-9 to "Thunderbird Beta for Testers".

This is just a metadata issue, which displays a wrong name and icon. The update itself is K-9 in version 8.0. You don't get automatically switched over to Thunderbird.

This will probably be fixed in the next index update.

In other news: Thunderbird for Android is available now on #FDroid ;)

@organicmaps yes, our communication about this change was not ideal.

We tried to cover it in https://f-droid.org/2024/07/25/twif.html and https://f-droid.org/2024/04/04/twif.html, but apparently it wasn't read by everybody (surprise, surprise 🙈).

Unfortunately, we didn't find any good technical solution to enable the new Anti-Feature automatically (but only for those, who didn't change their AFs manually).

Moreover, this new AF was designed to clearly differentiate, that apps like OM are NOT NonFreeNet, but only TetheredNet.

We've signed an open letter to the European Commission in support for @EC_NGI

Their funding has enabled us and many other FLOSS projects to develop and maintain great software, from which everybody benefits.

However, their own funding is probably cut next year, which would have a big negative impact to FLOSS projects.

Read more at:
https://f-droid.org/2024/07/23/ngi-funding-open-letter.html

@pixelfed Hi there! :fdroid: :heart_pride: :pixelfed:

At its core, the #FreeSoftware movement is all about establishing basic user rights to use, study, share and improve software for any purpose. This is a fundamental core value of #FDroid.

While we think our work is very important, it's no substitute for vigilantly demanding basic #HumanRights. That's why we want to support the #lgbtqiaPlus community by participating in #PrideMonth. Stay strong. Stay proud. :heart_pride:

Friendly reminder if you're an open source developer in the mobile ecosystem:

You still have time until 1st of June to apply for a #mobifree grant.

https://nlnet.nl/mobifree/

This week in F-Droid (TWIF) was published again. We have some short sentences about:

- The new app AndroidIDE: no NDK support and F-Droid client does not build (yet)
- NewPipe updates still not reproducible
- SimpleX Chat update also for arm64
- Smoke and SmokeStack with new icon and older Android versions

On top of that, we updated 75 more apps.

https://f-droid.org/2024/01/11/twif.html

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