# F-droid update is not reliable

**URL:** <https://community.blokada.org/t/f-droid-update-is-not-reliable/26701>\
**Category:** Announcements\
**Tags:** help-needed, dns, android\
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 12:21pm UTC](https://community.blokada.org/t/f-droid-update-is-not-reliable/26701 "2022-09-23T12:21:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![balboah](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.blokada.org/balboah/32/38_2.png) [@balboah](https://community.blokada.org/u/balboah)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2022, 8:58am UTC](https://community.blokada.org/t/f-droid-update-is-not-reliable/26701/8 "2022-09-27T08:58:04Z")

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> [@Can Blokada confirm is the suspicious release from F-Droid wasn't dangerous?](https://community.blokada.org/t/can-blokada-confirm-is-the-suspicious-release-from-f-droid-wasnt-dangerous/26702/9):
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> This was a bit unexpected for me as well. Here you can see the change that was made on F-droid: [https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/f325ad20b75ac91174cd996bc2b09c25460ab825](https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/commit/f325ad20b75ac91174cd996bc2b09c25460ab825) It appears nothing malicious was embedded in this release, however it triggered a new kind of bug at start up since it hasn’t been tested by Blokada at all. So it appears that any random guy can submit changes without any kind of approval (including editing the source code and behavior) to any app hosted on F-dr…

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