After a difficult period, the Flatpak project regains stability and focus under new maintainers with the 1.17 pre-release, the first update in six months.

Red Hat’s Sebastian Wick has shared some interesting insights into Flatpak’s development following the 1.17 pre-release, an unstable version (the current stable is 1.16.1), marking the first update in six months and a strong return for this popular Linux sandboxing framework.