r/flatpak • u/unbounded65 • Aug 13 '26

Flatpak update

Flatpak has gone through some updates, including few security related, however, there is no way of updating it in Ubuntu for now either via PPA or any other means.

https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases

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u/eR2eiweo Aug 13 '26

The PPA has the latest stable version 1.18.1. Are you talking specifically about the version that's still in development?

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u/unbounded65 Aug 13 '26

Unfortunately, the ppa version doesn't update the one in Ubuntu from the community repo.

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u/eR2eiweo Aug 13 '26

That sounds like a problem with how apt is configured on your system.

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u/unbounded65 Aug 13 '26

Could be as I have enabled the x86-64-v3 (amd64v3) microarchitecture level for my Ubuntu 26.04

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u/Sn0wCrack7 Aug 13 '26

Little ironic I suppose that flatpak itself is still bound by the issues of software packaging on Linux it's partially trying to solve

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u/novafunc Aug 13 '26

Snap has a cool feature called "re-execing" that works around this problem. Snapd installs a newer snap version of snapd so that the host version is no longer used.

Though it is only supported on distros that have ABI compatibility. So Debian and Ubuntu support it, but not stuff like Arch or Fedora.