Alex Larsson from the Flatpak project announced the release of a new maintenance update to the universal binary package format for Linux kernel-based operating systems.
Flatpak 0.6.9 is now the latest version, and it promises to add many great enhancements, among which we can mention the ability to pass partial references every time a terminal command takes a runtime or application name, as well as a brand new command called build-commit-from.
Application developers who want to package their apps and distribute it in the Flatpak format, can use the above-mentioned command for creating new commits based on the contents of an existing commit, which can be from another local repository or a remote one.
Build improvements, bug fixes
Also new in the Flatpak 0.6.9 release is the implementation of the $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/app/$APPID path for automatic generation of the application directory… (read more)
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