elementary OS Loki Users Get August's App Improvements and Security Updates

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Daniel Foré, founder of the elementary OS project, an open-source initiative to provide a general use computer operating system based on the popular Ubuntu Linux distro, announced August’s security and stability updates for Loki users.

If you’re using the latest elementary OS 0.4 Loki release on your personal computer, you’ll be happy to learn that there’s an update bringing better title and description to AppCenter’s payment dialog, along with better suppor for opening appstream:// URLs and a blacklist that’ll list all upstream core components and tools which aren’t compatible with elementary OS.

“In the interest of cleaning up the kinds of things that get shown in AppCenter, we now ship a blacklist,” said Daniel Foré in a blog post. “This blacklist includes things like system components and utilities inherited from Ubuntu, but don’t work on elementary OS. You can see the current ve… (read more)

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