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Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements
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.
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Flatpak 1.16.1 Arrives with Parental Control Enhancements
Flatpak, the widely used, distro-agnostic Linux packaging system, has released version 1.16.1, the first bugfix release in the 1.16 series.
One significant improvement is centered around parental controls. Now, child accounts can update existing applications by default, allowing critical security patches and bug fixes to be installed without delays. System administrators still retain control, with the ability to override this default behavior through specific polkit policy rules.
Flatpak 1.16.1 also simplifies system management by adjusting how it identifies application instances within systemd. Previously matched by top-level process IDs, systemd scopes now utilize Flatpak instance IDs, significantly easing the identification and management of app instances.