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**Flathub** @flathub · Mar 28, 2024 *

Mar 28, 2024 *

You may have seen the “Verified” badge on apps from Flathub which shows that the developer has proven ownership of their app, e.g. via their website or code host.

With great adoption (nearly 1,000 verified apps!), we’re trying something out to help with transparency:

Unverified

If you see this, it flags that the app has not been verified by its developer—it’s effectively a community-maintained package.

Krita's app listing with a verified badge next to the "KDE" developer name.

Audacity’s app listing with an “Unverified” badge below the “Muse Group” developer name

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This provides a bit of clarity around the source of apps while helping increase trust for the growing number of verified apps. While we don’t require apps be verified or submitted by upstream developers, we highly encourage it.

Let us know what you think!

As a reminder, we’ve always human-reviewed every app submission on Flathub before it reaches users. Read about our other moderation improvements e.g. when permissions or an app’s name changes: https://docs.flathub.org/blog/improved-build-validation

docs.flathub.org · Feb 21, 2024Improved build validation, increased moderation, and the long-awaited switch to libappstream | Flathub DocumentationFlathub's automatic build validation is more thorough now, and includes checks for issues we previously would have only flagged manually. There is a chance that if your app has been passing the continuous integration checks previously, it will fail now; here's why, and what to do about it.

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Mar 28, 2024, 10:55 PM·

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