I recently noticed, that the Home Assistant app on F-Droid has been stuck on 2025.11.4 since, well, November 2025.
I tried some searches, but couldn't find any info on why this is, does anyone here know?
The official releases include the minimal APK for all recent versions.
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infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 219d
2025.11.4 is the previous stable release, all the others since that are marked as pre-release. 2025.11.4 was released on gh on 11-23, the fdroid build was finished on 11-27, 4 days later.
The new release was tagged on 01-25, the new build should be done in the following days.
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 219d
Ok yup, I completely missed that all releases in between were pre releases, I thought it was just a few. Thanks for the hint.
I do wonder now, why 2025.12 was never stable...
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 219d
You mean 2025.11.4, right? I panicked a bit and looked at my calendar :D
Edit:
Here it is 01-26 I hope?
EarMaster@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
You need to start counting from 0…
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
My perception of time is flawed. 1 year error is acceptable for me. But fixed it for you.
I'm on my phone so github only writes "a week ago", I guessed the date from the commits' date. But on planet earth there are always at least 2 days at the same time, and sometimes 3, since Kiribati changed its time zone
Im_old@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 219d
On Obtanium I have 2026.1.6 🙂
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 219d
Obtainium just downloads it from gh. Fdroid rebuilds the apks from source
Im_old@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
I know https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 219d
What this article has to do with this topic?
Obtainium is a different platform with a different goal, I have both installed, but I get homeassistant from aurora, as I need the full version, location reporting works there well with microg/unifiednlp, I don't have play services
Squizzy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
What phone and os havw you?
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
Official Lineage os on Xiaomi Mi Mix 3. That's an old phone, but still works perfectly fine.
Successful_Try543@feddit.org · 3 pts · 219d
As far as I can see, the most recent version that isn't tagged as "pre-release" is 2026.1.6 dating from last week. In my experience, it does sometimes take two weeks until someone from the F-Droid team builds and upoloads the recent version.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 219d
Fdroid update builds are automatic. A bot adds a commit about new releases to this repo: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata
E.g. this was the previous release: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/14b7e1f5733778ef3a78aba4347191f795ec9e63
Then you can watch the build status here: https://fdroidstatus.org/builds/build
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 219d
Sometimes the build pipeline is a little bit behind and a new release may take 1 to 14 days until it is available in fdroid. At least that's my experience from recent years with fdroid
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 219d
Fantastic, I've always wondered where I can get more insights into the F-Droid build process. Thanks!
LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 218d
Just FYI, there is some issue in the fdroid build process: https://github.com/home-assistant/android/issues/6366
Foni@piefed.zip · 2 pts · 219d
I just checked it and in the play store if android the same thing happens last update 22/Nov/25.
eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 219d
That's odd, on Aurora store that's also what I see. On the official Play Store page, it shows last updated January 29th though.
infeeeee@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
The aurora ui sometimes lags, but you can just download manually the new version by typing the new number. Aurora doesn't have a separate repo, it's just a frontend to play store