Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.28 Snap Creator Tool with over 50 Improvements

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Snapcraft 2.28 released

 

Canonical released today Snapcraft 2.28, a new maintenance update to the tool application developers can use to package their apps as Snaps for Ubuntu Linux and other distros that support the Snappy technologies.

 

Snapcraft 2.28 is here one and a half months after the release of Snapcraft 2.27, and it appears to have already landed in the stable repositories of Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus), which we're currently using on our PCs at the moment of writing. According to the changelog attached below, a total of 55 changes are included in this update.

 

Prominent new features include support for packaging Snapcraft itself as a Snap, updated python, kernel, godeps, plainbox-provider, and catkin plugins with various improvements or bug fixes, implementation of an optional "source-checksum" property, as well as the enablement of delta uploads by default for the store.

 

Coming soon to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10

The store got a lot of attention during the Snapcraft 2.28 development cycle, and it now features retries for store calls, the ability to set User-Agent header in store requests, and adds track support to commands. A lot of tests and repo enhancements are also present in this new maintenance release of the Snap creator tool.

 

Among some of the noteworthy ones, we can mention support for versioned stage-packages, implementation of version support for build-packages, support for passing the autopkgtest secret to the container, support for Bazaar branches and snap directory in external tests, and the ability to manually test the kernel snaps.

 

Last but not least, Snapcraft 2.28 adds ROS (Robot Operating System) content sharing demo and makes the ROS demos support exiting after success, updates the FTP source for integration tests, makes the kernel unit tests to be independent of a hardware architecture, and removes the tomcat demo snap.

 

Snapcraft 2.28 also promises to allow developers to run individual autopkgtest suites, and it should be coming soon to both Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), so make sure that you update your installations on a regular basis to receive the newest software versions.

 

Snapcraft 2.28 Changelog

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[ Sergio Schvezov ]
* python plugin: use stage headers if applicable. (#1156)
* docs: use correct target to generate docs. (#1159)
* packaging: snapcraft as a snap (#1158)
* tour: make it work when its a snap. (#1217)
* cleanbuild: don't copy cache into container. (#1216)
* kernel plugin: fix modprobe output parsing. (#1208)
* kernel plugin: use default per arch targets. (#1209)
* python plugin: support pbr/setup.cfg projects. (#1202)
* cleanbuild: packaging independent detection. (#1199)
* tests: remove repo.Ubuntu patch for plugins. (#1194)
* store: enable delta uploads by default. (#1196)
* repo: refactor into a package. (#1192)
* core: resolve ld link first. (#1189)
* store: enable retries for store calls. (#1184)
* New upstream release 2.28 (LP: #1675391)

 

[ Joe Talbott ]
* store: set User-Agent header in store requests. (#1188)
* store: Add track support to commands. (#1161)
* state: asset tracking - store versions of stage-packages. (#1142)
* store: remove 'Series' from channel map output (#1151)
* repo: support versioned stage-packages. (#1157)
* parser: use the project loader code to find the origin's snapcraft.yaml (#1141)
* cli: rename `history` to 'list-revisions' with `revisions` alias. (#1160)
* repo: add version support for build-packages (#1185)
* project: use a more likely to be found global build-package (#1218)

 

[ Paolo Pisati ]
* demos:  add the minimal config changes to boot a dragonboard410c (#1147)
* kernel plugin: if no dtb target is set when the arch is arm.* build them all. (#1148)
* kernel plugin: rework MAKEFLAGS from the environment (#1150)

 

[ Kyle Fazzari ]
* contribution guide: add commit message template (#1153)
* demos: make ROS demos support exiting after success. (#1201)
* catkin plugin: support building with an underlay. (#1140)
* demos: add ROS content sharing demo. (#1186)
* repo: fixup with python, not sed (#1181)
* repo: ignore symlinks to libc. (#1174)
* sources: update documentation for source-subdir (#1177)

 

[ Olivier Tilloy ]
* project: expose parallel_build_count to scriptlets. (#1154)

 

[ Leo Arias ]
* docs: build and push the API docs to github pages. (#1126)
* tests: pass the autopkgtest secret to the container (#1162)
* tests: update the ftp source for integration test (#1169)
* ci: install wget in the container that triggers the beta tests. (#1167)
* demos: add a message to exit the mosquitto subscriber. (#1173)
* demos: add the mount-observe plug to be able to run godd. (#1172)
* tests: support bzr branches for external tests. (#1128)
* docs: update the directory where the API pages are generated (#1163)
* demos: remove the tomcat demo snap. (#1176)
* tests: make the kernel unit tests architecture independent. (#1178)
* tests: support snap directory in external tests (#1180)
* tests: run the master tests against the staging server (#1164)
* tests: take into account the new current link. (#1187)
* ci: run the CLA check in a docker container. (#1191)
* tests: add manual tests for the kernel snaps (#1198)
* ci: allow to run individual autopkgtest suites (#1200)
* tests: expect failures for the tests that can't be run in arm64. (#1145)

 

[ Jonathan Cave ]
* plainbox-provider plugin: run validate (#1095)

 

[ Michael Hudson-Doyle ]
* core: fix symlink resolution in get_core_dynamic_linker. (#1170)

 

[ pachulo ]
* sources: add optional "source-checksum" property (#980)

 

[ Colin Watson ]
* godeps plugin: add git to build-packages. (#1179)

 

 

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