New snapd release 2.26

Hello everyone,

The Snappy team is happy to announce the availability of snapd 2.25!

Some of the highlights:

• support tab-completion in snaps, i.e a snap can ship a bash completion script and it will get exported to the users shell, details here1
• new snap whoami command
• new snap refresh --time option that displays information about refresh settings
• new snap tasks --last={refresh,install,remove,connect,disconnect,configure,try} option
• improve snap info output
• improve tab completion for interfaces
• mediate netlink sockets via seccomp
• go 1.8 fixes
• interface API improvements
• new interfaces: random, network-status, online-account-service, storage-framework
• interface improvements: browser-support, locale-control, dbus

New snapd release 2.25

Hello everyone,

The Snappy team is happy to announce the availability of snapd 2.25!

Some of the highlights:

• improved aliases implementation, details in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/improving-the-aliases-implementation/18
• improved channels support (tracks), see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/channels-2-0-implementation/156)
• per revision snapshots of the snap configuration
• refresh schedule support, see https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/refresh-schedule-via-core-config/434
• cross distro improvements (Xauthority handling, debian spread tests run automatically now)
• test improvements (more spread tests)
• more fine-grained seccomp support for ioctl and quotactl
• download robustness improvements (auto retry on hashsum and RST issues)
• add built-using header to the deb packages to make tracking revisions easier
• new snap tasks command
• speedup for device key generation on pi2,pi3
• run snap-confine from the core if snapd also runs from the core
• new interfaces: media-hub, kubernetes-support
• interface improvements

New snapd release 2.24

The Snappy team is happy to announce the availability of snapd 2.24!
After some maintenance releases during the 2.23 series we focused in 2.24 on new features again.

Some of the highlights:

• fix potential transition issue from ubuntu-core to core
• work towards improved aliases
• (many) cross distro improvements
• fixes to work better with gnome-software
• improve internal interfaces code
• detect devmode by inspecting the apparmor support in the kernel
• test improvements
• allow chroot in base template
• fix pi-config.* core settings and add some more
• interface updates: browser-support,unity7,framebuffer,location-observe,location-control,browser-support,mir,opengl,unity8
• new interfaces: joystick,maliit,autopilot

New bugfix release

A bugfix release to improve the robustness around the configuration hook:

• tests: fix interfaces-cups-control for zesty
• configstate,hookstate: timeout the configure hook after 5 mins, report failures
• packaging: rename the file shipping snap-confine AA profile to workaround dpkg bug #858004
• many: ignore configure hook failures on core refresh to ensure upgrades are always possible
• snapstate: restart as needed if we undid unlinking aka relinked core or kernel snap

Bugfix release 2.23.5

tagging package snapd version 2.23.5

2.23.1

Bugfix release for 2.23.1:

• packaging, tests: use "systemctl list-unit-files --full"
  everywhere
  - interfaces: fix default content attribute value
  - tests: do not nuke the entire snapd.conf.d dir when changing
  store settings
  - hookstate: run the right "snap" command in the hookmanager
  - snapstate: revert PR#2958, run configure ho

2.23

Release 2.23

2.21

Hi,

The snappy team is proud to announce the release of snapd 2.21. After
a refreshing holiday season we are back in action and have built some
interesting new features! The focus was improving classic confinement
and aliases support.

Here are just some of the highlights:

• improve alias handling (auto-alias improvements, new snap aliases
  command to list them and their status)
• fix install of classic confined snaps from the store
• improve output of snap find when nothing is found
• switch to a pure go based gettext
• fixes in the snap info output (fix remote sizes, fix tracked
  channel output)
• allow using new snapd from the core snap
• new interfaces:
  • physical-memory-*, io-ports-control
  • interface improvements:
  • upower-observer
  • allow getsockopt by default everyhwere

This release is uploaded to the Ubuntu 14.04/16.04/16.10 proposed
pocket. It will also be available in 17.04 and in the candidate
channel for the core and ubuntu-core snaps. Other distros will
follow shortly. The stable channel continues to have the 2.20
version. If you would like to test out this new snapd version on your
Ubuntu Core device you can use the command:

$ snap refresh --candidate core

On the classic distribution you can help testing by enabling -proposed and then installing snapd.

Hope you enjoy the new release, if there are any questions, please let
us know!

Cheers,
Michael (on behalf of the snappy team)

2.16

tagging package snapd version 2.16

2.15.2

Small bugfix release:

• asserts: define a bit less terse Ref.String
• interfaces: disable auto-connect in libvirt interface
• asserts: check that validation assertions are signed by the publisher of the gating snap