Flatpak 1.3 Arrives with Support for Linux Systems with Multiple Nvidia Devices

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Flatpak 1.3 Arrives with Support for Linux Systems with Multiple Nvidia Devices 

Flatpak developer and maintainer Alexander Larsson released a new unstable release of the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, targeting the upcoming Flatpak 1.4 stable series.

Flatpak 1.3 is here as the first milestone is a series of unstable releases towards the next major and stable new version of the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, Flatpak 1.4, adding several new features and improvements like support for systems with multiple Nvidia devices.

Furthermore, the Flatpak 1.3 release adds initial support for sandboxed dconf, introduces two new options to the build-update-repo command, namely --no-update-[summary,appstream] and --static-delta-ignore-ref=PATTERN, and improves support for large repositories by making regeneration the appstream branch faster.Better Gentoo Linux support, other changesAmong other noteworthy changes implemented in Flatpak 1.3, we can mention that there's better support for GNU/Linux systems where /var/run is a symlink, such as Gentoo Linux, the size of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) images is no longer limited in the icon validator, and the checks in the update output were made green again.

Once again, Flatpak 1.3 is an unstable release towards the next stable series of the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, Flatpak 1.4, which means that you shouldn't install it on production machines, nor use it for running production software. You should wait for the Flatpak 1.4 to be released in the coming months.

However, power users, application developers/packages, and bleeding-edge users interested in getting an early look at the new features and improvements coming to the Flatpak 1.4 stable series, can now download and compile the Flatpak 1.3.0 sources from the GitHub announcement page, or install the binaries from the software repositories of their favorite GNU/Linux distributions.

 

 

 

 

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