New snapd release 2.27.2

• New bugfix release:
  • tests: remove TestInterfacesHelp as it breaks when go-flags
    changes
  • interfaces: don't crash if content slot has no attributes
  • debian: do not build with -buildmode=pie on i386
  • interfaces: backport broadcom-asic-control interface
  • interfaces: allow /usr/bin/xdg-open in unity7
  • store: do not resume a download when we already have the whole
    thing

New snapd 2.27 release

Some highlights:

• updated interfaces: default, mir, optical-observe, system-observe, screen-inhibit-control, unity, network-control
• new interfaces: greengrass-support, password-manager-service
• snapctl work inside the snap context too (outside of hooks)
• forced-devmode information is available via the sysinfo API now
• seccomp argument filtering re-enabled
• add --listswitch to snap abort and snap watch
• add new snap commandline aliass: snap search and snap change
• many test improvements
• many bugfixes
• shellcheck everywhere
• snap list now shows the snap type in the notes (if it is not type: app)
• support "title" via the store/rest-api
• syslogIdentifier is now written to the generated systemd unti files
• make snapd itself a "type=notify" daemon
• opensuse,fedora spec files are part of the git tree now
• auto-import system-user assertion only from ext4,vfat partitions
• show sha3-384 hash in snap info --verbose snapfile
• show snap-id in snap info
• make config defaults from gadget work also at first boot
• add support for android-boot
• implement snap-update-ns
• use /etc/ssl from the core snap
• implement shortcut snap install --unaliased to install a snap without its automatic aliases snapd#33751

New 2.26.14 release

Maintenance release of the 2.26 series.

New snapd release 2.26.8

Some 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 here9
• 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
• go 1.8 fixes
• interface API improvements
• new interfaces: random, network-status, online-account-service, storage-framework
• interface improvements: browser-support, locale-control, dbus
• fix seccomp related core revert bug described in https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapd-2-25-blocked-because-of-revert-race-condition/722/61

New snapd release 2.26.1

Tiny bugfix release for 2.26 with the following changes:

• a bug in the retry code that can trigger a panic (#3303)
• ubuntu-image changed from a regular to a classic snap which causes the tests that create an ubuntu-core image to fail

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