Fedora 38 will provide default access to unfiltered Flathub software center

The developers behind Fedora are going to enable full access to Flathub. Currently, users can use a limited amount of Flathub apps, but from version 38 they will have access to an unfiltered list.

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has given final approval on that change. That will happen starting with Fedora 38, which will be released on April 18. In that version, users get access to an allow list that no longer imposes restrictions on the apps that are offered in the software center.

Since version 35, which came out in 2021, Fedora users can app store Flathub configure through the first Gnome selection screen they see upon installation. However, that software center is filtered by an allowlist. As a result, only a limited number of apps are available.

It was always possible to use the unfiltered version of Flathub to get the 2,000+ apps, but users had to reconfigure Flathub themselves via the command line. This is no longer necessary from Fedora 38. The developers don’t write why the rules are being rolled back. In Fedora 35 the allowlist was added to keep more control about the apps in the store.