[pserwylo]

We are aware that it is not to everyone's liking, but we've done our best to modernise and appeal to a wider audience, all the while conducting UX tests and responding to feedback.

One thing we'd really love is for there to be an "F-Droid Light" which forks the previous stable release, strips it down, and offers the essentially app store experience with no bells and whistles on the widest range of devices [0]. Alas we are a small volunteer team and this would add a maintinence burden we can't seem to muster at this point.

[0] - https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues/48

[hiq]

Is anything bad going to happen if we stick to a previous version, assuming that there is no security vulnerability in those? I plan to do that, because of the new design. If there's no changes in protocol it should be OK I guess.

[pserwylo]

We added a new metadata format for this release to deal with translatable metadata, feature graphics, screenshots, etc. The server tools output the old and new metadata to the repository webroot though, so the old version will still be supported for some time. I'm not aware of any plans to completely deprecate and remove it.