You may have seen the “Verified” badge on apps from Flathub which shows that the developer has proven ownership of their app, e.g. via their website or code host.
With great adoption (nearly 1,000 verified apps!), we’re trying something out to help with transparency:
⚠️ Unverified
If you see this, it flags that the app has not been verified by its developer—it’s effectively a community-maintained package.
This provides a bit of clarity around the source of apps while helping increase trust for the growing number of verified apps. While we don’t require apps be verified or submitted by upstream developers, we highly encourage it.
Let us know what you think!
As a reminder, we’ve always human-reviewed every app submission on Flathub before it reaches users. Read about our other moderation improvements e.g. when permissions or an app’s name changes: https://docs.flathub.org/blog/improved-build-validation
🎉 Evolution 3.52 is out! It includes dozens of changes, but probably the most highlighted feature of this release is the support for #Microsoft365 via Graph API.
It's already available in the #Flathub beta channel and we're now pushing it through the pipeline to the stable channel.
Friends of energy efficiency - the Light Video 0.1.0 #Flathub update is out, build with #gtk4 4.14 and #GStreamer 1.24.1.
This should be the first app targeting the #linux / FDO desktop enabling Wayland video offloading (think zero-copy playback) by default. In many cases (actually more than I expected) this can improve battery lifetime - and on low-end devices even playback performance - significantly.
A new Fretboard update is on its way to Flathub! This one is mainly to keep it up-to-date with the latest and greatest platform improvements. In fact,the rest of its updates during the 46 cycle might end up only being translation updates (unless I decide to go down the merciless enshittification route, that is 😈)
A top-10 ISV has asked if Flathub can provide how many installs of their app are coming from Steam Deck users.
Today, we can’t—we’d need a change in Flatpak itself to add the OS name/version to the user-agent sent along with install/update transactions. The best we may be able to do today is see the exact versions of OSTree and Flatpak that are included in SteamOS, check if those are relatively unique, and provide a rough estimate based on that.
Steam Deck users, can you share the OSTree and Flatpak version numbers from your Steam Decks? I don’t have one for reference, but the gist should be to load Desktop Mode, open a terminal, and type ostree --version and flatpak --version then paste the versions output. :)
Ah, and if someone is adventurous/generous and wanted to contribute adding OS info to the user-agent of Flatpak itself, see this issue¹ and this area in the codebase²; this would be great, and could really help our conversations with app developers and ISVs.
What? A comprehensive platform for the design of electronic circuits / printed circuit boards.
◉Tools for editing electrical / PCB diagrams
◉View designs in 3D for better understanding
◉Extensive library of electronic components
◉Facilitates the generation of Gerber files for manufacturing
Stumbled across Shortwave in Flathub today. Lovely piece of software! Simple and does exactly what it says on the tin: "Shortwave is an internet radio player that provides access to a station database with over 30,000 stations."
By using our External Data Checker, you can automatically propose (and optionally merge) updates to your app’s manifest when you make a new release or tag on your source repository; no manual fiddling with JSON or Yaml required.
After it’s merged, your update will automatically be built and submitted to Flathub.
Looking through the @flathub apps that are passing the MetaInfo Quality Guidelines, it’s largely ones built for GNOME. That’s not a bad thing, necessarily, but KDE and cross-platform apps, let’s get you represented as well!
Devs: log into the Flathub Developer Portal then view your app listing to see where it’s passing or failing. And if you need any help or suggestions, just give me a shout; I’m happy to help!
As a reminder, these quality guidelines are going to become a lot more important and visible soon: they’re what enable your apps to show up prominently in places like the upcoming new Flathub homepage!
Let’s get your apps in shape to be shown in the best light, elevating the whole Linux app ecosystem at the same time.
Also, users of open source apps: you can help, too! If your favorite open source app doesn’t follow the new guidelines, filing an issue (or better, a merge/pull request!) to fix it could be the push a developer needs to get their app featured.
Just remember, be polite and respect the developers’ time and conventions when filing anything. :)