Ntfy - stable or beta release?

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Hi all,

I am new in this Forum; but I am using apps from F-Froid since I am using smartphones (my very first phone was a Fairphone 1, purchased in June 2013).

I am a bit confused by the fact that F-Droid released a new version of ntfy on 20 Sep 2025 (version 1.17.0 (33)). whereas on github this version is not available. But a pre-release (v1.17.8) for testing was released on the same day on github.

How can I see if a new version is beta or a stable version in the F-Droid-client? (I am using Drod-ify.)

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There are stable or beta as upstream decides.

For ntfy they pushed a crashing beta as stable or something, see: ntfy 1.17.0 broken - Unpublish / mark broken? (#3646) · Issues · F-Droid / Data · GitLab

In Website or Client, stable are named “suggested”

Github is a proprietary software, there’s no git info for “pre-release” or whatever they added on top.

This could have easily been avoided by setting up the F-Droid recipe to skip certain tags, eg. Name betas as… -beta

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Thanks for your explanations. :slight_smile:

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In the meantime can you please pull ntfy 1.17.0 from fdroid, it’s completely broken, crashes whenever it’s started, see F-Droid released 1.17.0 which crashes on startup when reading the internal database · Issue #127 · binwiederhier/ntfy-android · GitHub

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:person_shrugging: There's no dummy cycle | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

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Then it’s not just ntfy that’s broken, it’s not ok to knowingly push obviously broken updates as “Suggested“. There should be a way to blacklist an app/version. What would happen if one of the upstream repos are compromised. Fdroid would push it as “Suggested“ for a month or so until some background job kicks in?

EDIT: What’s stopping you from just running: unlink io.heckel.ntfy_33.apk

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1.17.8 is live for the last hour or so: F-Droid repository updates: "⟳ f-droid.org from Sat, 20 Sep 2025 13:04:16 GMT …" - Mastodon so update now :wink:

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Thank you, it explains why ntfy crashed all the time.