Ideas and material for the 1.0 release press release.

Possible theme - "it's now complete". Then run though the key elements.

• Flatpak introduction

  • Problems that it solves
    • For developers: How do I get my app to users without a ton of different package formats ?
    • For developers: How do I avoid a myriad different dependencies and version across distros ?
    • For users: Where are the apps that work on my distro ?
    • For users: Can I try this app from the internet without risking my system ?
  • Brief history https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/2018/06/20/flatpak-a-history/

• flathub.org

  • What it is. What it does.
  • Stats! https://ahayzen.com/direct/flathub.html
  • Examples of popular apps

• docs.flatpak.org

  • It's been improved and is "complete".
  • Notable content

Whats new in flatpak 1.0, compared to the last stable series (0.10):

• document portal and permission store moved to xdg-desktop-portal
• Many bug and crash fixes
• Improvements to info command: --show-permissions, --file-access, --show-location, --show-runtime, --show-sdk
• "remove" is an alias for "uninstall"
• smarter about system vs user when not specified
• faster installs and updates (less fsync)
• new flatpak portal for creating sandboxes and app restarting
• support for end-of-life markers for apps
• export service files for session services
• improved libflatpak
  • api for remove metadata
  • transaction api for install/update/uninstall
• allow cleaning up unused runtimes and extensions with uninstall --unused
• new command: flatpak repair
• don't require xattr support in filesystem
• require bubblewrap 0.2.1
• require ostree 2018.6
• flatpak install/update/uninstall ask for confirmation of changes
• export host certificates into sandbox using p11-kit-server
• allow granting ssh access to apps
• Include appdata in OCI bundles
• Add new permission-* commands to interact with the permissions store from the portals
• New command create-usb which can be used to prepare an repo for offline updates