Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements

Flatpak 1.16.1 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series. Flatpak 1.16.1 brings various enhancements like the ability to allow a child account to update existing apps by default when using parental controls to ensure that security and bugfix updates can be installed. This change can be overridden by setting polkit policy rules for the org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls-update action. This release also speeds up the flatpak prune --dry-run command by no longer calculating the potential freed space and avoiding operations that would need to hold a lock, adds /dev/udmabuf to --device=dri, improves the error message for an invalid parameter to flatpak-spawn --sandbox-a11y-own-name, and speeds up the flatpak permission-reset command by only writing entries that have actually changed. In addition, Flatpak 1.16.1 makes systemd scopes easier to match to Flatpak app instances by using the instance ID instead of the top-level process ID in the scope name, adds support for looking for TLS certificates on /etc/containers/certs.d when interacting with OCI registries, and improves the documentation. Various bugs were addressed in this release, including a memory leak when installing extra-data, intermittent flatpak-portal crashes by avoiding unnecessary multi-threading, building with -Ddefault_library=static, incorrect error reporting, showing a fatal transaction errors twice, and including all options in shell completion for flatpak search. Flatpak 1.16.1 is now available for download from the project’s GitHub page. However, Flatpak being a component in your GNU/Linux distribution, it is highly recommended that you update it from the software repositories. The Flatpak devs recommend users and distributions update to this version as soon as possible. Image credits: Logo courtesy of the Flatpak project (edited by Marius Nestor) The post Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements appeared first on 9to5Linux - do not reproduce this article without permission. This RSS feed is intended for readers, not scrapers.

May 11, 2025 - 07:20

Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements

Flatpak 1.16.1 was released today as the latest stable version of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework and the first maintenance update to the Flatpak 1.16 series.

Flatpak 1.16.1 brings various enhancements like the ability to allow a child account to update existing apps by default when using parental controls to ensure that security and bugfix updates can be installed. This change can be overridden by setting polkit policy rules for the org.freedesktop.Flatpak.override-parental-controls-update action.

This release also speeds up the flatpak prune --dry-run command by no longer calculating the potential freed space and avoiding operations that would need to hold a lock, adds /dev/udmabuf to --device=dri, improves the error message for an invalid parameter to flatpak-spawn --sandbox-a11y-own-name, and speeds up the flatpak permission-reset command by only writing entries that have actually changed.

In addition, Flatpak 1.16.1 makes systemd scopes easier to match to Flatpak app instances by using the instance ID instead of the top-level process ID in the scope name, adds support for looking for TLS certificates on /etc/containers/certs.d when interacting with OCI registries, and improves the documentation.

Various bugs were addressed in this release, including a memory leak when installing extra-data, intermittent flatpak-portal crashes by avoiding unnecessary multi-threading, building with -Ddefault_library=static, incorrect error reporting, showing a fatal transaction errors twice, and including all options in shell completion for flatpak search.

Flatpak 1.16.1 is now available for download from the project’s GitHub page. However, Flatpak being a component in your GNU/Linux distribution, it is highly recommended that you update it from the software repositories. The Flatpak devs recommend users and distributions update to this version as soon as possible.

Image credits: Logo courtesy of the Flatpak project (edited by Marius Nestor)

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