Flathub will ban new AI-coded apps and automated submissions, including manifests, metadata, build scripts and pull requests, under a revised store policy. 🛠️
Existing AI-coded apps and mature projects are exempt, with exceptions judged by maintenance, community engagement and release activity signals. 📂

@FlatpakApps

🔗 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/flathub-bans-ai-coded-apps

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Flathub bans AI-coded apps and automated submissions - OMG! Ubuntu

You'll have to sift through fewer vibe-coded apps on Flathub in future, as the store has announced a policy change on software made using AI tools.

OMG! Ubuntu

I’ve finally gotten #JSignPdf onto #FlatHub. 🎉
It’s the most comprehensive digital signing tool for #Linux, and I’m glad it will now be available to more users.

During the process, I managed to convince upstream to adopt modern standards for Linux desktop applications, such as AppStream metadata and XDG portals, so it improved the application for Linux users, too.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.intoolswetrust.JSignPdf

Install JSignPdf on Linux | Flathub

Add digital signatures to PDF documents

Flathub just banned AI-generated and AI-assisted submissions, the whole pipeline, down to the pull request itself. The slop problem is real, I've audited enough of it. But they aimed at the wrong thing. The line was never AI or no-AI, it's whether the person shipping the code can read it and stand behind it. So I stood up my own Flatpak repo and shipped Tempest 2.8.6 through it the same week. Self-hosting isn't a tantrum, it's a gate I control.

https://jcrenshaw.dev/posts/flathub-banned-the-wrong-thing

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Flathub Banned the Wrong Thing · John Crenshaw

Flathub had a real slop problem and aimed at the wrong target. The line was never AI or no-AI. It's whether the person shipping the code can read it and stand behind it.

John Crenshaw

Ephraims Wochenrückblick: KW 23, 2026

In Woche 23 war in der FOSS-Welt einiges los! Von Blender über die Servo-Engine und das KDE-Projekt bis zu einigen kleineren Meldungen.

#Wochenrückblick #Blender #Servo #kde #Flathub #IBM #COSMIC_Desktop #Linux

https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-kw-23-2026

Ephraims Wochenrückblick: KW 23, 2026

In Woche 23 war in der FOSS-Welt einiges los! Von Blender über die Servo-Engine und das KDE-Projekt bis zu einigen kleineren Meldungen.

GNU/Linux.ch

We've release #Livi 0.5.0, our light video player for mobile 📼 . It now shows a proper status page when processing a URL (by @tpikonen ) and can (optionally) avoid display notches in landscape mode when the #Wayland compositor sends the necessary information (e.g. #phoc does). It's already updated in #Debian and on #flathub.

#Phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk

(more Linux news in original post)

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.27-Released
(Why the heck does GitHub require me to log in to access the release notes? Are the release notes private? 🤔)

Shelly 2.3.2.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves CachyOS Support:
https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-3-2-2-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-now-improves-cachyos-support

Flathub bans AI-coded apps – with some exceptions:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/flathub-bans-ai-coded-apps
(Didn't even notice that Amberol is AI coded, it's actually the best music player I found for mobile. Hopefully they won't make their policy even stricter and start to ban existing apps too)
(But the frustration with random low quality vibe coded apps is understandable of course)

This Credit Card-Sized Linux Box Has a Keyboard, Camera, and AI Capability:
https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17352012/cardputerzero-crowdfunding

Wine 11.10: VKD3D 2.0, reimplemented XPath without libxml2 & better VBScript compatibility:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/6/wine-11-10-vkd3d-2-0-reimplemented-xpath-without-libxml2-and-better-vbscript-compatibility/

Proton Experimental gets fixes for Forza Horizon 6, Homeworld 2, SHOGUN: Total War and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/proton-experimental-gets-fixes-for-forza-horizon-6-homeworld-2-shogun-total-war-and-more/

systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261-rc3

X.Org Security Advisory released for 9 new vulnerabilities in X.Org X server and Xwayland:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/x-org-security-advisory-released-for-9-new-vulnerabilities-in-x-org-x-server-and-xwayland/

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux:
https://worldofsoftware.org/intel-npu-driver-1-30-released-for-linux/

Mesa 26.1.2 released with some bug fixes and minor changes:
https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/26.1.2.html

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Mir #Shelly #Flathub #Wine #Proton #ProtonExperimental #Systemd #XOrg #IntelNPU #Mesa #WindowManager #WM #FosseryTech

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm.

no Git, no GitHub. CI was only for huge projects that could afford and maintain it.

hopefully a distro volunteer packages your stuff and users would get it in a couple months. there were so few testers because you’d have to compile from source with shitty tools.

the notion of “arrogant #Flathub reviewers gatekeeping” is laughable. the bar is so low now and still catches your feet because ChatGPT dreams up manifest permissions. skill issue sorry not sorry. :p

honestly the hardest part of the app icon design process is picking the light variant of the brand background colour.

it always looks kind of meh and most of the time the icons are displayed on a dark background (except in social media previews).

I hope #Flathub/#GNOME would just drop it. :)

Vaya, vaya... La tienda de aplicaciones de Linux #Flathub ha prohibido aplicaciones que tengan código o documentación asistida por IA. 🤔

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Has a #club , a #exhibition venue or an institution in #saxes , time and space,
Acrylic paintings of me to be displayed in an exhibition, of promoting the #Flathub store for #Linux?

#Exhibitions

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