I saw that #NewPipe announced 20.10 on F-droid (maybe from the newpipe repo) but that #fdroid would only show me 20.1. I had to uninstall and then fdroid would show two new versions as available. Is it typical to need to re-install apps when moving from the official to a 3rd party repo?

@cryptoxic may be this can answer you https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/