Flatpak 1.0 Linux Application Sandboxing & Distribution Framework Is Almost Here

Flatpak, the Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework formerly known as XDG-App, is closer than ever to get its first ever stable, production-ready release.

While it's becoming very popular among Linux users as it is more and more adopted by Linux OS vendors, Flatpak is still considered an "under development" technology, and so it's not yet promoted on a mass scale as its rival Snap is by Ubuntu's mother company Canonical.

However, Flatpak as it is right now, it's very usable, but it is yet to achieve the 1.0 version milestone, which usually marks a project as mature and ready for mass deployment. And it's now more closer than ever as the development team announced today the availability of the first Flatpak 1.0 pre-release version.

Developer Alexander Larsson released today Flatpak 0.99.1, the first pre-release version before Flatpak 1.0, which is considered feature-complete, sayi...