Flatpak 0.9.1 Introduces New, Ninja-Based Build System, Flatpak-Builder Changes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Less than a week since the launch of the fourth maintenance update to the Flatpak 0.8 series of the open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly XGD-App), Alex Larsson announced today Flatpak 0.9.1.

Flatpak 0.9.1 appears to the be the first point release to the major Flatpak 0.9 series, and we say major because this milestone adds numerous improvements compared to the 0.8 branch, especially to the build system. The biggest change appearing to be a new Ninja-based build system called “cmake-ninja”.

“This release mostly has changes to flatpak-builder and the build machinery. All flatpaks built with this version can run on Flatpak 0.8.x, but there has been additions and minor changes in flatpak-builder that may require minor changes to existing builder manifests,” said Alex Larsson in the <a href="h… (read more)

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