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2026

Sebastian Wick: Improving the Flatpak Graphics Drivers Situation January 2026

2025

Georges Stavracas: Flatpak 1.16 is out! January 2025

Sebastian Wick: Testing with Portals 2025

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

Alexander Larsson: Kick-starting the revolution 1.0 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

2016

Simon McVittie: Flatpak in Debian June 2016

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