Add Hydra

[probonopd]

Repository: https://github.com/ja7ad/hydra

A fast, resilient, multi-source file retriever and download engine

• Stars: 733
• Latest release: v1.0.2-rc (2026-09-27T09:22:40Z)
• AppImage asset: Hydra-1.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
• License: GPL-3.0

Found by .github/workflows/discover-apps.yml, which looks for GitHub
repositories that publish AppImages but are not in the catalog yet. This
entry was not tested by a human; please review it before merging.

[github-actions]

❌ Test failure

@ja7ad: this pull request adds the AppImage from your GitHub repository to the AppImage catalog; the test reports the following. Could you have a look?

Compatibility: not self-contained: uses the C library of the system; references glibc 2.35

• The application quit or crashed right after starting. The error below usually shows why.

First error in the log:

ERROR: The application exited within 11 seconds instead of showing a window

Commit 48ca0ad. Full log

[ja7ad]

Repository: https://github.com/ja7ad/hydra

A fast, resilient, multi-source file retriever and download engine

• Stars: 733
• Latest release: v1.0.2-rc (2026-09-27T09:22:40Z)
• AppImage asset: Hydra-1.0.1-x86_64.AppImage
• License: GPL-3.0

Found by .github/workflows/discover-apps.yml, which looks for GitHub repositories that publish AppImages but are not in the catalog yet. This entry was not tested by a human; please review it before merging.

Thank you for add to app image hub, Latest release is v1.0.1.

[probonopd]

Hi @ja7ad can you build on an older system please, so that it will run on older target systems? Thanks.

[ja7ad]

Hi @ja7ad can you build on an older system please, so that it will run on older target systems? Thanks.

Thanks, will do. The current release is built on Ubuntu 22.04, so it needs glibc 2.35. I'm moving the AppImage build to an older base to lower that.

The test failure here was actually something else. The test machine is 22.04 too, and the app panicked because it couldn't load libxkbcommon-x11.so. The image doesn't bundle it, and that box doesn't have it installed. I'll bundle libxkbcommon and libxkbcommon-x11 in the same change and ping here once a release with both is out.

[ja7ad]

@probonopd I release v1.1.0 and fixed issue: https://github.com/ja7ad/hydra/releases/tag/v1.1.0

[probonopd]

/retest

[github-actions]

❌ Test failure

Tested:

• Hydra-1.1.0-x86_64.AppImage from release v1.1.0

Compatibility: not self-contained: uses the C library of the system; references glibc 2.30

• The application quit or crashed right after starting; the error below usually shows why. Note that the test runs the application without network access, on purpose, and that this is a requirement for the catalog: an AppImage must start without network (users are offline too). If the application needs a server, a login or an update check to start, please make it show its window (or at least a message) first and connect afterwards, and handle a failed connection instead of exiting.

First error in the log:

ERROR: The application exited within 11 seconds instead of showing a window

What next: once the AppImage is fixed (e.g. in a new release), comment /retest here to test it again. If it should not be in the catalog after all, close this pull request; an app that is already in the catalog can be removed by a maintainer with /remove.

Commit 48ca0ad. Full log