Fedora 38 will provide access to the unfiltered Flathub software center by default

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

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

Since version 35, released in 2021, Fedora users have been able to use the app store Flathub configure via the first Gnome selection screen they see upon installation. However, that software center is filtered by an allow list. 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 more than 2000 apps, but users had to reconfigure Flathub themselves via the command line. Starting with Fedora 38, this is no longer necessary. The developers do not write why the rules are being rolled back. In Fedora 35 the allowlist was added to maintain more control about the apps in the store.