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Flatpak 1.2 Released For This Widely-Used Linux App Sandboxing & Distribution Tech

Written by Michael Larabel in GNOME on 28 January 2019 at 09:41 AM EST. 33 Comments

Red Hat developer and lead Flatpak (formerly XDG-App) developer Alexander Larsson has announced the stable Flatpak 1.2.0 release.

Flatpak 1.2 features a number of command-line improvements to enhance the user experience, install/uninstall improvements, handling for newer versions of fontconfig, and other changes.

The brief 1.2.0 release post goes over the prominent changes for this new Flatpak stable release.

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