Flatpak-Builder Is Now a Standalone Tool for Building Flatpaks from Sources

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Flatpak developer and maintainer Alexander Larsson released earlier today Flatpak 0.9.10, the latest version for the 0.9.x series of the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly XDG-App).

While Flatpak 0.9.10 is a hotfix release that addresses a regression from version 0.9.9 in the D-Bus proxy, which made various apps to no longer function properly, Flatpak 0.9.9 (full changelog attached below) was published this past weekend with more enhancements, including the split of the flatpak-builder command into a separate tool that application developers can use to package their apps as Flatpaks.

Therefore, Flatpak-builder is now an open-source, standalone utility that can be downloaded from its own GitHub page, and it’s designed as a wrapper around the flatpak build command to be used for building Flatpaks from sources. This is a smart move from the Flatpak team as it should boost the adopt… (read more)

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