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Security Bugfix Announcement: Distribution maintainers please update your packages!Today Simon McVittie released updates fixing security...

Security Bugfix Announcement: Distribution maintainers please update your packages!

Today Simon McVittie released updates fixing security issues on the supported Flatpak stable branches 1.14.4, 1.12.8, and 1.10.8.

One issue (CVE-2023-28101) involves maliciously crafted metadata hiding permissions using special characters and the other (CVE-2023-28100) involves an ioctl system call allowing copy/paste on virtual terminals (tty1, tty2, etc.)

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.14.4

Episode 501 of the Linux Unplugged podcast features an insightful interview with @ramcq on Flatpak and the exciting plans for Flathub in...

Episode 501 of the Linux Unplugged podcast features an insightful interview with @ramcq on Flatpak and the exciting plans for Flathub in 2023! Check it out on your podcast app.

Here are some of the @matrixdotorg channels you can join for Flatpak discussion:- Flatpak: https://matrix.to/#/#flatpak:matrix.org- Portals:...

Here are some of the @matrixdotorg channels you can join for Flatpak discussion:
- Flatpak: https://matrix.to/#/#flatpak:matrix.org
- Portals: https://matrix.to/#/#xdg-desktop-portal:matrix.org
- Flathub: https://matrix.to/#/#flathub:matrix.org
- Freedesktop-sdk: https://matrix.to/#/#freedesktop-sdk:matrix.org

It's a great day for folks who love the Meson build system since Simon McVittie just released Flatpak 1.15.0 (an unstable development...

It's a great day for folks who love the Meson build system since Simon McVittie just released Flatpak 1.15.0 (an unstable development release) with support for building Flatpak using Meson!

The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out! Check out the release notes...

The culmination of several months of work by dozens of people, Flatpak 1.14.0 is now out! Check out the release notes here:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.14.0

There will be a Flatpak BoF session tomorrow at noon CDT (UTC-5) in Guadalajara, Mexico and online as part of GUADEC! Please join if...

There will be a Flatpak BoF session tomorrow at noon CDT (UTC-5) in Guadalajara, Mexico and online as part of GUADEC! Please join if you'd like to collaborate on Flatpak, Flathub, or portals. See https://guadec.org for how to join

The "--unused" option of the "flatpak uninstall" command is also worth checking out if you want to reclaim disk space,...

The "--unused" option of the "flatpak uninstall" command is also worth checking out if you want to reclaim disk space, at the cost of potentially having to re-download runtimes later if they become needed again.

You can also remove your user data (and reclaim some disk space) during an app uninstall by including "--delete-data" on your...

You can also remove your user data (and reclaim some disk space) during an app uninstall by including "--delete-data" on your "flatpak uninstall $APP" command line.

A little-known (and destructive!) feature of Flatpak: you can remove the data leftover from all apps that have been uninstalled with the...

A little-known (and destructive!) feature of Flatpak: you can remove the data leftover from all apps that have been uninstalled with the command "flatpak uninstall --delete-data". By default, your user data is left untouched when you uninstall an app.

Specifically this removes data stored by the app in ~/.var/app/$APP_ID (the default writable location for per-app data) and also resets any overridden permissions.

"How many Flathub apps reuse other package formats?" by Will...

"How many Flathub apps reuse other package formats?" by
Will Thompson

https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2022/06/14/how-many-flathub-apps-reuse-other-package-formats/

If you write a blog post or give a presentation on something Flatpak related, and it seems fit for http://flatpak.org, please submit a PR to...

If you write a blog post or give a presentation on something Flatpak related, and it seems fit for http://flatpak.org, please submit a PR to add it to one of these pages:
- https://flatpak.org/blog-posts/
- https://flatpak.org/presentations/

Here's the relevant repo on GitHub:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak.github.io

Shout-out to @jimmac for designing snazzy new branding for Flatpak!

Shout-out to @jimmac for designing snazzy new branding for Flatpak!

There are two Flathub talks to look forward to on Friday at LAS: "Flathub: now and next" by Jorge Castro and Rob McQueen, and...

There are two Flathub talks to look forward to on Friday at LAS: "Flathub: now and next" by Jorge Castro and Rob McQueen, and "Status of Flathub payments/donations support" by Daniel Silverstone

Linux App Summit can be attended either remotely or in Italy; check out https://linuxappsummit.org/

There will be two BoF sessions at LAS this weekend that are Flatpak related: one for Flatpak and one for XDG Portals. Please join and bring...

There will be two BoF sessions at LAS this weekend that are Flatpak related: one for Flatpak and one for XDG Portals. Please join and bring constructive ideas!

A BoF is a space where people with a common interest can collaborate, it stands for Birds of a Feather.

See https://linuxappsummit.org/

Stable releases of Flatpak 1.12.3 and 1.10.6 were just released, and they fix important security issues including a CVE as well as a number...

Stable releases of Flatpak 1.12.3 and 1.10.6 were just released, and they fix important security issues including a CVE as well as a number of other bugs, so please update as soon as your distribution provides them!

The GNOME Foundation is seeking contractors to work on improving Flathub! Details here:...

The GNOME Foundation is seeking contractors to work on improving Flathub! Details here: https://discourse.flathub.org/t/seeking-contractors-for-work-on-flathub/1889