Flatpak Linux App Sandboxing Now Supports Stateless Systems, Native GTK+ Themes

The Flatpak 0.10 stable branch of the open-source universal binary format for GNU/Linux distributions has been updated recently to first point release.

Flatpak 0.10.1 is now the latest version of the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework (formerly XDG-App), adding new commands to display information about applications in a remote (flatpak remote-info) and to allow you to search the appstream data from the command-line (flatpak search).

New command "flatpak remote-info" shows information about applications in a remote. In particular the --log operation shows the history and can be used in combination with flatpak upate --commit=XYZ to roll back to a previous version," explains Alex Larsson in the GitHub release notes.

To ensure the search works correctly, the "flatpak update" command has been modified to also update the appstream data for all configured remotes. On top of that, Flatpak 0.10.1 updates th... (read more)

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