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Flathub

Ever wonder how we help keep millions of users safe while delivering thousands of apps and their updates?

We’ve written up a bit about the journey an app takes behind the scenes from its source code all the way to running on your device—with all of the safety nets along the way. 🔒

docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safe

docs.flathub.org · Flathub Safety: A Layered Approach from Source to User | Flathub DocumentationWith thousands of apps and billions of downloads, Flathub has a responsibility to help ensure the safety of our millions of active users. We take this responsibility very seriously with a layered, in-depth approach including sandboxing, permissions, transparency, policy, human review, automation, reproducibility, auditability, verification, and user interface.
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Feb 21, 2025, 10:24 AM·Public·Moshidon
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Cassidy James :eos: :gg: :fh:

@BrodieOnLinux I would be happy to come back on your channel some time and chat @flathub now that I'm much more involved there!

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Leaflet

@flathub

One thing I would like to see is a policy of how to handle apps using EOL runtimes.

I think apps using a sufficiently old EOL runtime should be hidden from view and require special installation instructions.

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Matthew Miller

@flathub

This is really good and directly addresses a lot of my concerns. Thank you for the good explanation.

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Andrew Wedlake

@flathub @cassidy A very informative explanation. Well timed. Someone stayed up late to write this. ;-)

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