snapd

Features added:

• snappy now allows opening local files using xdg-open

Features removed:

• snappy no longer ships the legacy snapd.refresh.timer and .service units

Bugs fixed:

• snappy no longer reports snaps as broken when updating
• snappy no longer blocks ModemManager from communicating with logind
• snappy no longer crashes when polkit dialog is dismissed
• snappy now correctly grants access to NetworkingStatus DBus interface
• snappy now correctly grants access to ScreenSaver DBus interface
• snappy now correctly generates .timer services that span 24 hour wrap
• snappy now correctly starts services in snaps with before/after ordering

Known issues:

• snappy incorrectly handles ssh configuration on core devices
• snappy doesn't work with nvidia graphics cards on Ubuntu 18.04

Fixes in 2.29.4:

• snap-confine: fix snap-confine under lxd
• tests: disable classic-ubuntu-core-transition on i386 temporarly
• many: reject bad plugs/slots
• interfaces,tests: skip unknown plug/slot interfaces
• store: enable "base" field from the store
• packaging/fedora: Merge changes from Fedora Dist-Git

The new snapd 2.29.3 release.

New bugfix release:

- snap-confine: cleanup broken nvidia udev tags
- cmd/snap-confine: update valid security tag regexp
- overlord/ifacestate: refresh udev backend on startup
- dbus: ensure io.snapcraft.Launcher.service is created on re-
  exec
- snap-confine: add support for handling /dev/nvidia-modeset
- interfaces/network-control: remove incorrect rules for tun

This release contains two potential issues in the 2.28 major release:

- interfaces/opengl: don't udev tag nvidia devices and use snap-
  confine instead
- debian: fix replaces/breaks for snap-xdg-open (thanks to apw!)

This release fixes the following issue:

• interfaces/lxd: lxd slot implementation can also be an app snap, see here for details.

A new major release of snapd. The highlights can be found here: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/released-snapd-2-28/2421

This release contains the following fixes:

• snap-confine: update apparmor rules for fedora based basesnaps
• snapstate: rename refresh hook to post-refresh for consistency

Fixes the following issues:

• typo in the network-control udev interface: <a href="https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/4018>details
• improve distro checks to take ID_LIKE from os-release into account: details.

Two fixes for potential regressions with snaps that use the interfaces below:
- interfaces: add udev netlink support to hardware-observe
- interfaces/network-{control,observe}: allow receiving
kobject_uevent() messages

New bugfix release:

• interfaces: fix network-manager plug regression
• hooks: do not error when hook handler is not registered
• interfaces/alsa,pulseaudio: allow read on udev data for sound
• interfaces/optical-drive: read access to udev data for /dev/scd*
• interfaces/browser-support: read on /proc/vmstat and misc udev data

As before a source/binary build for Arch is provided as well.

Tiny bugfix release:
- snap-seccomp: add secondary arch for unrestricted snaps as well

As before you can find Arch packages (source and x86_64 binary) below. We are working with Arch to resolve the situation and update the Community repository.

Tiny bugfix release that removes the Nice=-5 from the snapd.service file. This breaks in lxd containers: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1709536
2.27.3

You can also download the binary release for Arch x86_64 that is made as an exception while the downstream package maintainer responds. The source Arch package is also added for reference.

• 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

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

Maintenance release of the 2.26 series.

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