Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home

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Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home

23 January 2020, 09:20 AM

Phoronix: Flatpak 1.6.1 Released Due To Security Issue - Special Case Of Getting Access Outside Home

Flatpak 1.6 was an exciting update for this Linux application sandboxing/distribution tech in that it started laying the foundation to support a paid app store but elsewhere in the code-base a security issue came about...

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23 January 2020, 09:58 AM

Lol, I literally wanted to enable Flatpak in our workstation playbook right now Hopefully the Ubuntu PPA gets the update soon.

Apparently there are some other goodies as well, of course.

Warning: org.freedesktop.Platform.openh264 not installed (#886) · Issues · freedesktop-sdk / freedesktop-sdk · GitLab

https://gitlab.com/freedesktop-sdk/freedesktop-sdk/issues/886

Context I just tried running flatpak update with Flatpak 1.4.2. Description

Last edited by anarki2; 23 January 2020, 11:07 AM.
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