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 2023 feature request for having a /dev/kfd specific device permission. This pull request merged recently added the support.
Flatpak 1.18 details and downloads via GitHub .