Flatpak 0.9.4 Adds Extra Layer of Performance Improvements When Installing Apps

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Alex Larsson announced earlier today the availability of yet another monthly maintenance release of the Flatpak (formerly XDG-App) open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework.

Coming approximately one month after the previous update, Flatpak 0.9.4 is now the latest release in the 0.9 series of the project, adding a large number of improvements to its wide range of commands, as well as fixing some of those nasty issues reported by users lately.

Requiring ostree 2017.6 and bubblewrap 0.1.8 components, Flatpak 0.9.4 offers better progress reporting in both the command-line and user interface, improves the output of various commands, including list, info, remotes, and remote-ls, and implements a “flatpak repo” command to view information about local repositories.

The “flatpak build” command was updated to kill all the processes in the sandbox when it exits, the “flatpak update –subpath=…” was also improved to update the app event when there’… (read more)

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