Repeating what has been said before, Geany is a volunteer project, so unless someone contributes code/scripts to support a process that the available resources of Geany can accommodate then it won't happen. The only distribution packages the project makes are for Windows and Macos because those platforms do not have a history of distribution of open source code and because two individuals are willing to do the work to make them each release. If nobody does it then those will not be made either.

Until one or more individuals contribute the effort to make flatpacks, appimages, snaps, debs, RPMs, Nix etc each release, the project will not be making any of them.

As for your expectations, Firefox is supported by Mozilla, Libreoffice by the document foundation (with over 1MEuro income 2022), digiKam by KDE so you should expect commercial quality standards and security for those.

For a totally volunteer project where everyone is contributing in their own time like Geany, you probably should only expect "some reasonable endeavours". And in the end remember the license (for almost all open source software including those above) says "This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.".

But in particular on security, remember Geany is an IDE, as part of its normal operation it can run arbitrary programs, usually programming language tools, but in theory anything, and then it runs the most dangerous code of all, that in development by the user, especially mine 😁, so security is a moot point.

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