14 DAY TRIAL // Canonical's Michael Vogt is pleased to announce today, April 11, 2017, the release and immediate availability for download of the Snapd 2.24 Snappy daemon for Ubuntu Linux and other supported GNU/Linux distributions.
Snapd 2.24 comes five weeks after the release of the 2.23 stable series of the Snappy daemon, which provides support for installing Snap packages in a Linux-based operating system. It doesn't appear to be a major release, despite the new version number, but it focuses mainly on new features rather than bug fixes.
"The Snappy team is happy to announce the availability of snapd 2.24. After some maintenance releases during the 2.23 series we focused in 2.24 on new features again," reveals Michael Vogt, Software Engineer at Canonical, in today's GitHub announcement.
What's new in Snapd 2.24
Among the new features and improvements implemented in the Snapd 2.24 release, we can mention lots of cross-distro enhancements, especially for the Fedora Linux operating system, better internal interfaces code, the ability to allow chroot in base templates, and the addition of the maliit, joystick, and autopilot new interfaces.
Talking about interfaces, Snapd 2.24 comes with improvements for the unity8, unity7, mir, browser-support, opengl, framebuffer, location-control, and location-observe ones, along with more improvements for tests and aliases. It also makes it possible to detect devmode by inspecting the AppArmor support in Linux kernel.
As for the bugs fixed in the Snapd 2.24 release, we can mention an issue that could have occurred when attempting to transition from Ubuntu-core to core, the pi-config.* core settings, and GNOME Software support. More pi-config.* core settings have been added as well.
Snapd 2.24 is available for download right now as a source tarball if you want to compile it on your favorite GNU/Linux distirbution, but it should land in the coming days in the stable software repositories of various supported Ubuntu releases, as well as other operating systems, so update when it's available.