Flatpak 1.16.1 has been released as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework. This version serves as the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.
One of the major improvements in Flatpak 1.16.1 is the ability to allow child accounts to update existing applications by default when using parental controls. This ensures that critical security and bugfix updates can be installed, but users can override this feature by setting polkit policy rules for the action org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls-update.
Other enhancements include a speed boost for the flatpak prune --dry-run command, as it no longer calculates potential freed space, significantly reducing the number of operations that require a lock. Additionally, it now adds /dev/udmabuf to --device=dri, improves error messages for invalid parameters in flatpak-spawn, and optimizes the flatpak permission-reset command to only write entries that have changed.
Furthermore, this release simplifies the matching of systemd scopes to Flatpak app instances using their instance ID rather than the top-level process ID, adds support for locating TLS certificates on /etc/containers/certs.d while interacting with OCI registries, and improves documentation.
Bugs addressed in this release include resolving a memory leak during extra-data installation, fixing intermittent crashes caused by the flatpak-portal, and correcting various error reporting issues.
Flatpak 1.16.1 is now available for download from the project’s GitHub page. However, since Flatpak is a component of your GNU/Linux distribution, it is highly recommended to update it through the software repositories. The Flatpak developers encourage all users and distributions to update to this version as soon as possible.
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