Flatpak 0.6.12 Linux Application Sandboxing Makes Kernel Keyring Non-Containable

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Alex Larsson from the Flatpak project, an open source initiative sponsored by Red Hat in an attempt to make cross-platform app deployment easier, announced on October 6, 2016, the release of Flatpak 0.6.12.

It’s been two weeks since Flatpak 0.6.11 got out with various improvements and bug fixes, and now the new maintenance release, Flatpak 0.6.12, is here to add even more goodies for application developers who want to package their apps as Flatpaks for cross-distro distribution.

New features in Flatpak 0.6.12 include support for the “–device=kvm” option to be able to access /dev/kvm, support for the “–allow=multiarch” parameter allow running of 32-bit (i686) code in a 64-bit (x86_64) application, better error messages, robustness fixes for the build-commit-from command, and partial revert in application ID rules…. (read more)

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