Flatpak 0.8.0 Linux App Sandboxing Supports Dependencies When Installing Bundles

Coming three weeks after the release of Flatpak 0.6.14, the new 0.8 stable series of the open-source and cross-distro Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly XDG-App) has landed today, December 21, 2016.

Announced by Alex Larsson on the project’s GitHub page, Flatpak 0.8.0 appears that the new version is only a bugfix release laying the groundwork for the next major series, 0.9.x, which will sport a bunch of exciting new features. It requires OSTree 2016.14, but it’s recommended to use OSTree 2016.15.

“This is the first release in a new series of stable releases called 0.8.x. New features will be added to 0.9.x, and only bugfixes will be backported to 0.8.x. The featureset of this release is a good base to target if you’re creating flatpaks that should be widely usable,” reads the release announcement.

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