snapd

Bugfix release:

• overlord/snapstate: make sure configuration defaults are applied only once

Bugfix release for 2.42:

• interfaces/lxd-support: Fix on core18
• interfaces: allow access to ovs bridge sockets
• tests/main/system-usernames: Amazon Linux 2 comes with libseccom 2.4.1 now
• snap-seccomp: add missing clock_getres_time64
• cmd/snap-seccomp/syscalls: update the list of known syscalls
• sandbox/seccomp: accept build ID generated by Go toolchain

Bugfix release for 2.42:
- interfaces: de-duplicate emitted update-ns profiles
- packaging: tweak handling of usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine
- interfaces: allow introspecting network-manager on core
- tests/main/interfaces-contacts-service: disable on openSUSE Tumbleweed
- tests/lib/lxd-snapfuse: restore mount changes introduced by LXD
- snap: fix default-provider in seed validation
- tests: update system-usernames test now that opensuse-15.1 works
- overlord: set fake sertial in TestRemodelSwitchToDifferentKernel
- gadget: rename "boot{select,img}" -> system-boot-{select,image}
- tests: listing test, make accepted snapd/core versions consistent

This is a new major release of snapd

Some hightlights:

• little-kernel bootloader support
• Improve performance in lxd when snapfuse is used

This is the new snapd 2.41 major release.

Some of the major new features:

• Daemon user support (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/10624)
• Gadget asset updates (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/490)
• Remodel: transition to a new store (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/10477)
• Remodel: re-registration (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/10477)
• Health checks phase 1(https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/10605)

See also https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/the-snapd-roadmap/1973

New 2.40 major release.

This is a small bugfix release. It improves the SELinux policy and fixes a potential core refresh race on very slow hardware.

Small bugfix release:
- debian: rework how we run autopkgtests
- interfaces/docker-support: add overlayfs accesses for ubuntu core
- data/selinux: permit init_t to remount snappy_snap_t
- strutil/shlex: fix ineffassign
- packaging: fix build-depends on powerpc

The most important change the the selinux fix for fedora.

New bugfix release

This is a new upstream release.

We are happy to release the new 2.38 snapd release

Small bugfix release to fix bugs/regressions found during the 2.37 cycle:

• squashfs: unset SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH in the TestBuildDate test
• overlord/ifacestate: fix migration of connections on upgrade from
  ubuntu-core
• tests: fix upgrade-from-2.15 with kernel 4.15
• interfaces/seccomp: increase filter precision
• tests: remove snapweb from tests

Enjoy the release :)

New bugfix release:
- interfaces/seccomp: generate global seccomp profile
- overlord/snapstate: add some randomness to the catalog refresh
- tests: add upgrade test from 2.15.2ubuntu1 -> current snapd
- snap-confine: fix fallback to ubuntu-core
- packaging: avoid race in snapd.postinst
- overlord/snapstate: discard mount namespace when undoing 1st link
snap
- cmd/snap-confine: allow writes to /var/lib/** again
- tests: stop catalog-update/apt-hooks test until the catlog refresh
is randomized
- debian: ensure leftover usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine is gone

A bugfix release for the 2.37 series:

• cmd/snap, overlord/snapstate: ignore classic flag when a
  snap is strictly confined and warn only instead of erroring
• snap-confine: remove special handling of /var/lib/jenkins
• cmd/snap-confine: handle death of helper process gracefully
• snap-confine: fix classic snaps for users with /var/lib/* homedirs
  like jenkins/postgres
• packaging: disable systemd environment generator on 18.04
• tests: update smoke/sandbox test for armhf
• cmd/snap-confine: refactor and cleanup of seccomp loading
• snap-confine: increase locking timeout to 30s
• snap-confine: fix incorrect "sanity timeout 3s" message
• snap: fix hook autodiscovery for parallel installed snaps
• tests: iterate getting journal logs to support delay on boards on
  daemon-notify test
• interfaces: add u2f-devices interface

A new bugfix release for 2.37 - the most important fix a regression for people using snaps from the jenkins user

We are happy to release the new 2.37 snapd release

This is a new bugfix release for snapd.

The highlights:

• Fixes for seeding issues affecting core18 systems
• Fixes for syntax errors in SELinux policy
• Snapd now detects when the apparmor profile for snap-confine cannot be loaded
• Snapd now detects when apparmor_parser is too old, disabling the apparmor security backend if required (for openSUSE Leap 42.3)
• Snapd now retries some operations that failed on temporary DNS error
• Snapd no longer writes the system key if security setup fails
• The snap run command now supports --trace-exec argument

This is a new bugfix release for snapd.

The highlights:

• daemon, vendor: bump github.com/coreos/go-systemd/activation, handle API changes
• snapstate: update fontconfig caches on install
• overlord,daemon: mock security backends for testing
• sanity, spread, tests: add CentOS
• Revert "cmd/snap, tests/main/snap-info: highlight the current channel"
• cmd/snap: add nanosleep to blacklisted syscalls when running with --strace
• tests: add regression test for LP #1803535
• snap-update-ns: fix trailing slash bug on trespassing error
• interfaces/builtin/opengl: allow reading /etc/OpenCL/vendors
• cmd/snap-confine: nvidia: pick up libnvidia-opencl.so
• interfaces/opengl: add additional accesses for cuda

This release will help performance problems with some snap/host combinations when the fontconfig caches are not matching.

Bugfixes for 2.36

We are proud to release a new 2.36 release of snapd. It contains a lot of new features.

Some highlights:
✅ Warnings pipeline infrastructure
✅ Go into socket activtion mode no snaps are installed
✅ Much improved snap help output
✅ Support core config proxy on classic
✅ Support rate-limit of background refreshes via core.refresh.rate-limit core config option
✅ Honor core config proxy.http{,s} settings on classic as well
✅ Warn when prerequisites to run snapd (like minimal kernel version) are not meet