It will soon be available for other GNU/Linux distributions

Aug 31, 2016 02:13 GMT  ·  By

Canonical's Michael Vogt has been happy to announce the release and immediate availability of a new maintenance update of the Snapd daemon that implements support for Snap universal binary packages in GNU/Linux distributions.

New Snapd point releases are out pretty fast these days, which means that they don't include any major changes, but only some much-needed improvements and support for requested technologies. Therefore, Snapd 2.13 is the third maintenance update introduced in the month of August 2016.

According to the release notes, Snapd 2.13 is here to introduce a bunch of new interfaces, among which we can mention lxd-support, fuse, and mpris, those adding support for LXD, FUSE, and MPRIS technologies, end-to-end support for the Snap assertions checking functionality, multiple image improvements, and many bug fixes.

"We are happy to announce that the new 2.13 release is released in Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24 (COPR). Other distributions will follow soon," says Michael Vogt in the mailing list announcement. "We also released a new version of the 'core' snap that contains this version of Snapd. [...] Please let us know if you notice any issues."

Now available in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Fedora 24 (COPR)

As expected, the Snapd 2.13 release is already available in the stable software repositories of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating systems, and it also looks like it landed in the COPR repository of the Fedora 24 distribution. Shortly after this announcement, the Snappy devs will push Snapd 2.13 to the repos of other distros.

As usual, you are urged to update your Snapd installation to the latest stable build, which right now is 2.13, if you want out-of-the-box support for universal Snap packages in your GNU/Linux OS. In related news, Canonical released recently the Snapcraft 2.15.1 Snappy creator tool for application developers who want to distribute their apps as Snaps.