Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements | Linux Today

Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements

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Marius Nestor
May 23, 2025

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.

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Marius Nestor

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