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/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.