August 2007 |
Alexander Larsson releases Glick, his first app bundling framework |
November 2011 |
Glick 2 is released, a modernized version of the first Glick framework |
July 2012 |
“GNOME OS” session held at GUADEC, includes initial planning for a new app bundling format |
September 2012 |
Alexander Larsson releases experimental “bundler” framework |
January 2013 |
“Linux Apps” proposal discussed at the GNOME Developer Experience hackfest, Brussels |
December 2014 |
Work begins on xdg-app, which later becomes Flatpak |
March 2015 |
xdg-app 0.1 released, the very first version of Flatpak |
December 2015 |
GNOME’s “Software” gains the ability to install xdg-app applications |
May 2016 |
xdg-app renamed to Flatpak, 0.6.0 released; accompanying press release included endorsements by Red Hat, Endless Computers and Collabora |
June 2016 |
Work on desktop portals security framework begins |
July 2016 |
GTK+ 3.21.4 released with initial support for the portals framework |
August 2016 |
Endless OS 3.0 released, the first publicly available OS to use Flatpak by default. Adoption of Flatpak by Apertis IVI also becomes public knowledge. |
Noveber 2016 |
ClearLinux announces their adoption of Flatpak |
December 2016 |
Flatpak 0.8.0 released, the start of the first stable series with long-term support |
May 2017 |
Initial soft launch of Flathub hosting service |
May 2017 |
KDE Plasma 5.10 released with initial support for portals |
October 2017 |
Flatpak 0.10.0 released, marking the start of the second supported stable release series |
October 2017 |
KDE Plasma 5.11 released, “Discover” gains the ability to install Flatpak apps |
November 2017 |
Linux Mint 18.3 released, includes out of the box Flatpak integration |
August 2018 |
Flatpak 1.0 released, the first release in a new stable series, with major new features; Flathub beta period ends; Freedesktop runtime 18.08 released with new support period policy |
December 2019 |
elementary OS 5.1 Hera released, includes out of the box Flatpak integration |