Post #1677429

2025-12-27 13:53 UTC

Starting with v7.68.5-1, we&#39;ve unified Molly and Molly-FOSS into a single fully FOSS app, with no proprietary dependencies. We replaced the proprietary Play Services SDK previously used by Molly with our own open-source implementation, so FCM push notifications are now supported for all users. If you have either Molly or Molly-FOSS installed, just update like usual. No migration needed. Molly v7.68.5-1 is already available on GitHub and F-Droid. Accrescent coming soon.

Replies (9)

@iguana09863@mastodon.social 2025-12-27 14:04

@mollyim@fosstodon.org I have a question. Does Molly not use anything from Google, unlike Signal? I'm referring to com.android.vending (Play Services) and other Google stuff. Since I uninstalled almost everything from Google, including Play Services, from my smartphone, I'm just wondering if it can be used without anything from Google.

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@ploum@mamot.fr 2025-12-27 14:47

@mollyim@fosstodon.org : this is a very sensible move. I’m not sure that non-FOSS Molly provided much of value while Molly-FOSS is a lifesaver for Ungoogled smartphone. Thanks for the work!

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@ploum@mamot.fr 2025-12-27 14:49

@mollyim@fosstodon.org : F-Droid users may need to go on the Molly page in F-Droid, check the versions at the bottom and manually update to v7.68.5-1. In my case, this update was not proposed automatically as v7.66.5-1 was still "suggested"

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@Tourma@tech.lgbt 2025-12-27 15:20

@mollyim@fosstodon.org Gee golly

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@mrak@solarsystem.social 2025-12-27 16:38

@mollyim@fosstodon.org Is unified push on the roadmap?

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@suomynona1405@mastodon.social 2025-12-27 17:10

@mollyim@fosstodon.org does anyone else has delayed notifications with unified push on @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social since a few weeks?

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@soaproot@sfba.social 2025-12-27 21:08

@mollyim@fosstodon.org Ooh nice, I had forgotten about the non-free version shortly after I chose the free one. Glad to hear it was possible to eliminate the feature gap.

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@rsn@framapiaf.org 2025-12-27 21:35

Donate to @mollyim@fosstodon.org

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@Bubu@chaos.social 2026-01-07 18:57

@mollyim@fosstodon.org your website does not yet reflect this unification?

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