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Release Sat, Oct 17, 2026 2 min read

Obtainium 1.7.0

Original release notes

What's Changed

  • Fix Material You surface colors by @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3323
  • By @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3380:
  • Let users choose the Shizuku or Dhizuku installer backend (#2844)
  • Keep read access on the export directory after restarts (#3227)
  • Bring back app icons in the TV app list (#3328)
  • Add invert toggles for release title and note filters (#3337)
  • Support release-date pseudo-versions on Forgejo/Codeberg sources (#3339)
  • Rename the APK regex filter label to link-based wording (#3341)
  • Offer to add apps without checking when checks fail (#3345)
  • Keep the TV add-app button visible as a pinned footer (#3351)
  • Prefer primary-volume cache so external installers can read downloads (#3356)
  • Aggregate background update errors into one notification (#3362)
  • Extract release dates from HTML sources (#3364)
  • Bound non-stock install waits so batch updates can't hang (#3369)
  • Let background guards limit checks as well as installs (#3370)
  • Extract redirected ZIP downloads instead of rejecting them (#3372)
  • Support excluding categories from update checks (#3375)
  • Allow disabling apps without removing them (#3375)
  • Persist global add-app defaults for new apps (#3377, #3346)
  • Reduce APKMirror request volume with batched API checks and scoped scraping
  • Fix Uptodown metadata parsing by @skrimix in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3327
  • Translation: Update hu.json by @summoner001 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3329
  • Add Bengali (bn) localization bn.json by @TanvirSdq in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3363
  • Correcting english strings untranslated in French by @Kevinr99089 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3379
  • Update nl.json by @ojppe in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3326
  • i18n: update pl.json by @krvstek in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3324
  • Update bs.json by @Errudar in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3350
  • Keep downloads alive when the app is sent to the background (#2894) by @Rodrigorm33 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3334
  • Support regional Galaxy Store downloads and store metadata by @HotKids in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3344
  • Bugfixes by @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3384, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3385, https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3387
  • Translation: update hu.json by @summoner001 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3386
  • TV related improvements by @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3388
  • By @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3389
  • Filter F-Droid APKs by device architecture using page nativecode (#2529, #779)
  • Add "Update Health" section to flag possibly stale app configs (#1753)
  • Disable swipe actions by default (#3039) by @ImranR98 in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3391

New Contributors

  • @TanvirSdq made their first contribution in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3363
  • @Rodrigorm33 made their first contribution in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3334
  • @HotKids made their first contribution in https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/pull/3344

Full Changelog: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/compare/v1.6.17...v1.7.0