Flatpak 1.18 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released

Posted by hanuca on Jun 9, 2026 12:34 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Flatpak, the popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, has been updated today to version 1.18, a major release that comes with new features and improvements.

Coming one year and five months after Flatpak 1.16, the Flatpak 1.18 release introduces support for the AMD vendor-specific compute interface (/dev/kfd) via the DRI device permission, improved output of the flatpak update command, and improved startup time for fish shell integration.

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