14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Snappy team, through Michael Vogt, announced today the release and immediate availability of the Snapd 2.26 Snappy daemon for Ubuntu Linux and other supported GNU/Linux distributions.
Snapd 2.26 is here only two weeks after the previous maintenance release, but it looks like it's yet another hefty update adding quite a number of improvements and new features. The biggest new feature being the implementation of tab-completion in Snaps, which means that Snap packages can now ship pre-loaded with a bash completion script that will be exported to user's shell.
Also new in the Snapd 2.26 release is better support for Go 1.8, improvements to the API (Application Programming Interface) interface, support for mediate netlink sockets via seccomp, better tab-completion for interfaces, improved output for the "snap info" command, as well as improvements to the browser-support, locale-control, and bus interfaces.
New commands and options
Among other noteworthy features implemented in the Snapd 2.26 release, which is available for download right now from the project's GitHub page, we can mention the implementation of the "snap whoami" command, new snap tasks --last={refresh, install, remove, connect, disconnect, configure, try} option, and a new "snap refresh --time option," which shows information about refresh settings.
Other than that, it looks like a bunch of new interfaces have been added, including online-account-service, network-status, storage-framework, and random. Snapd 2.26 will soon be available for installation from the stable repositories of your favorite Ubuntu operating system, and should make it's way into the repos of other supported distros. If you're using Snapd 2.25 or a previous release, please update as soon as possible.
The full changelog is attached below for more details on the new features and improvements implemented in Snapd 2.26. In related news, we'd like to inform you about the availability of GitHub's Atom open-source hackable text editor as a Snap for Ubuntu and other supported operating systems. Please take a look at our earlier report to learn how to install the latest Atom version as a Snap.