Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech.

Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also been enhanced. Another nice addition is the improved start-up time when running under the Fish shell. Plus there are several small bug fixes.

Most notable with Flatpak 1.18 is adding support for AMD's /dev/kfd device exposed by the AMDKFD kernel compute driver. The DRI device permission is added so applications can request /dev/kfd access now without having to use an override for opening up access to all devices.

This AMD ROCm /dev/kfd integration thus can allow for nice AMD ROCm/OpenCL compute support by sandboxed apps without needing to open up their access to all devices.

This stems from a [1]2023 feature request for having a /dev/kfd specific device permission. [2]This pull request merged recently added the support.

Flatpak 1.18 details and downloads via [3]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/5383

[2] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/pull/6648

[3] https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/releases/tag/1.18.0