Snapcraft 2.15.1 is the latest stable release of the app

Aug 23, 2016 23:59 GMT  ·  By

We reported earlier on the release of the major Mir 0.24.0 display server for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, and now we would like to inform you about the latest Snapcraft 2.15 tool for packaging apps in the Snap universal binary format.

Snapcraft 2.15 has been released recently, but it already received a first point release, version 2.15.1, and it looks like also landed in the main software repositories of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system (see below to learn how to install the new version or update your Snapcraft installation).

As for the new features, we can tell you that Snapcraft 2.15 adds built tags support to the Go plugin, lets you set fine grain control of parallel building per part, as well as to set constraints when using the Python2 plugin, and permits the in tree snapcraft.yaml file to also refer to external sources.

Other than that, Snapcraft now caches the packages and cache when using stage-packages, adds support for process dependency links to both Python plugins, and lets users manually select artifacts when attempting to use the Make plugin and the respective Makefile doesn't have an install target.

Installing Snapcraft 2.15 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

If you're using the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system on your personal computer and you already have the Snapcraft tool install, you can now upgrade to Snapcraft 2.15.1 as it's already live in the repositories. Use Ubuntu Software or the APT command-line package manager for that. Otherwise, if you're new to Snapcraft, you can use the following set of commands to install the latest release.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapcraft
If you find out that you need some examples to get started with using Snapcraft, you can also use the first command below to install a set of Snapcraft examples that will help you better package your apps as Snaps for various GNU/Linux operating systems that support Canonical's Snappy technologies. The second command below will list all the options of the Snapcraft. sudo apt install snapcraft-examples
snapcraft --help