Blog Posts

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    2024

    Cassidy James Blaede: 2 Billion Downloads & Other Milestones from 2024 So Far August 2024

    2022

    Hubert Figuière: RTKit, portals, and Pipewire August 2022

    Will Thompson: How many Flathub apps reuse other package formats? June 2022

    Jakub Steiner: Flatpak Brand Refresh June 2022

    Martín Abente Lahaye: Flatseal 1.8.0 May 2022

    Will Thompson: Evince, Flatpak, and GTK print previews May 2022

    TheEvilSkeleton: Response to "Flatpak Is Not the Future" May 2022

    Jan Grulich: How to use Libportal/libportal-qt February 2022

    2021

    Phaedrus Leeds: A Quick PSA on Writing Portal-friendly Application Code December 2021

    Will Thompson: On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication November 2021

    Martín Abente Lahaye: Flatseal 1.7.5 November 2021

    Peter Hutterer: Flatpak portals - how do they work? September 2021

    Lionir Deadman: Flathub, runtimes and stats June 2021

    Martín Abente Lahaye: Flatseal 1.7.0 April 2021

    TheEvilSkeleton: Response to flatkill.org February 2021

    Phaedrus Leeds: Cleaning Up Unused Flatpak Runtimes January 2021

    2020

    Alexander Larsson: Scaling Flathub 100x November 2020

    Alexander Larsson: Compatibility in a sandboxed world August 2020

    Martín Abente Lahaye: Flatseal 1.6.0 June 2020

    Hubert Figuière: Getting a stack trace with debug symbols out of a flatpak June 2020

    Alexander Larsson: Putting container updates on a diet May 2020

    2019

    Matthias Clasen: More on Flatpak Updates December 2019

    TingPing: Hardening Flatpak Permissions Over Time October 2019

    Matthias Clasen: Some Flatpak Updates October 2019

    Robert McQueen: Flathub, brought to you by... August 2019

    Matthias Clasen: Settings, in a Sandbox World July 2019

    Christian Hergert: Flatpaking Terminals April 2019

    Alexander Larsson: Introducing flat-manager March 2019

    Alexander Larsson: Changes in Flathub land February 2019

    Matthias Clasen: What's New in Flatpak 1.2 January 2019

    2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak Commandline Design December 2018

    Matthias Clasen: An Update on Flatpak Updates November 2018

    Robert McQueen: Flatpak, sandboxes and security October 2018

    Alexander Larsson: Moving away from the 1.6 freedesktop runtime October 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak, After 1.0 October 2018

    Alexander Larsson: Flatpak on windows September 2018

    Matthias Clasen: On Flatpak Dependencies September 2018

    Matthias Clasen: About Flatpak Installations August 2018

    TingPing: Using host Nvidia driver with Flatpak August 2018

    Alexander Larsson: Kick-starting the revolution 1.0 August 2018

    TingPing: Easier Flatpak manifest editing with VSCode August 2018

    Alexander Larsson: The birth of a new runtime August 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak Portal Experiments August 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak - A Look Behind the Portal July 2018

    Matthias Clasen: The Flatpak BoF at GUADEC July 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak, Making Contribution Easy July 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak in Detail, Part 3 July 2018

    Alexander Larsson: Flatpak - a history June 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak in Detail, Part 2 June 2018

    Matthias Clasen: Flatpak in Detail June 2018

    Alexander Larsson: Flatpak inception April 2018

    TingPing: Flatpaking application plugins March 2018

    PointestStick: Flatpak support in Discover January 2018

    2017

    TingPing: Status of emulators Flatpak'd October 2017

    Alexander Larsson: On application sizes and bloat in flatpak October 2017

    Simon McVittie: DebConf 17: Flatpak and Debian August 2017

    Robert McQueen: Welcome, Flathub! July 2017

    TingPing: Flatpak now supports themes May 2017

    Simon McVittie: GTK hackfest 2017: D-Bus communication with containers March 2017

    Matthias Clasen: Debugging a Flatpak Application January 2017

    2016

    Simon McVittie: Flatpak in Debian June 2016

    Simon McVittie: GNOME Developer Experience hackfest: xdg-app + Debian January 2016