Flatpak 0.9.3 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Released with Many Builder Changes

Alex Larsson from the Flatpak team announces the release and immediate availability of the third maintenance update to the Flatpak 0.9 series of the open-source Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework.

Flatpak 0.9.3 comes about 20 days after the release of Flatpak 0.9.2, and adds a great number of changes to flatpak-builder, among which we can mention the ability for the "flatpak-builder --run" command to grant D-Bus access to the app, and support for "bootstrap.sh" to be recognized as an autogen.sh alternative.

To be able to pre-seed downloaded sources, Flatpak gained support for the "--extra-sources=" argument, along with support for "--bundle-sou... (read more)

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