Flatpak Linux App Sandboxing Tool Now Works Out of the Box with OpenGL Drivers

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Alex Larsson announced earlier the availability of a new stable update to the Flatpak 0.8 series of the open-source application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux-based operating systems.

Flatpak 0.8.3 is here about 19 days after the release of the second maintenance update to the series, and adds a small number of improvements, including better handling of extra-data errors, improvements to buildsystem=cmake builds, as well as the implementation of updated OpenGL support that would enable Flatpak to work with OpenGL drivers out of the box.

“In addition to the regular list of bugfixes, this stable release include backports of the updated OpenGL support from master. This, in combination with the work in the runtime, allows flatpak to work out of the box with out-of-tree OpenGL drivers, including the nvidia driver,” said Alex Larsson in the release notes.

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