The Flatpak (formerly XDG-App) Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework reached a new milestone today as the project announced the general availability of Flatpak 1.2.Flatpak is one of the most used Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework among GNU/Linux distributions, allowing developers and users alike to easily and quickly install the latest versions of applications as soon as they are available upstream.
When Flatpak reached maturity with the 1.0 version announced last year in August, it promised to take the lead and beat Canonical's Snap universal binary format used by the Ubuntu Linux operating systems with innovative features. Now, six months later, Flatpak 1.2 is here with more improvements.
Here's what's new in Flatpak 1.2
With the Flatpak 1.2 release, the development team sponsored by Red Hat, made the universal binary format more robust, stable, and secure. Highlights include removal of root's ability to... (read more)
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