I think F-Droid were acting in the right up to that point; and then the latest update (regex newlines) is 0day? Has there been a response from F-Droid about the updates?
> Instead of adopting the fixes we proposed, F-Droid wrote and merged their own patch [10], ignoring repeated warnings it had significant flaws (including an incorrect implementation of v1 signature verification and making it impossible to have APKs with rotated keys in a repository).
This concerns me more than the vulnerabilities themselves. It's a pretty serious failure in leadership and shows that F-Droid is still driven by egos, not sound software engineering practices and a genuine interest in doing right for the community.
F-Droid has numerous issues:
* glacially slow to release updates even when security patches are released
* not enforcing 2FA for developer accounts
* no automatic vulnerability or malware scanning
...and more problems: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/