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New in snapd 2.67

  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): allow overlapping rules
  • Registry view (experimental): Changes to registry data (from both users and snaps) can be validated and saved by custodian snaps
  • Registry view (experimental): Support 'snapctl get --pristine' to read the registry data excluding staged transaction changes
  • Registry view (experimental): Put registry commands behind experimental feature flag
  • Components: Make modules shipped/created by kernel-modules components available right after reboot
  • Components: Add tab completion for local component files
  • Components: Allow installing snaps and components from local files jointly on the CLI
  • Components: Allow 'snapctl model' command for gadget and kernel snaps
  • Components: Add 'snap components' command
  • Components: Bug fixes
  • eMMC gadget updates (WIP): add syntax support in gadget.yaml for eMMC schema
  • Support for ephemeral recovery mode on hybrid systems
  • Support for dm-verity options in snap-bootstrap
  • Support for overlayfs options and allow empty what argument for tmpfs
  • Enable ubuntu-image to determine the size of the disk image to create
  • Expose 'snap debug' commands 'validate-seed' and 'seeding'
  • Add debug API option to use dedicated snap socket /run/snapd-snap.socket
  • Hide experimental features that are no longer required (accepted/rejected)
  • Mount ubuntu-save partition with no{exec,dev,suid} at install, run and factory-reset
  • Improve memory controller support with cgroup v2
  • Support ssh socket activation configurations (used by ubuntu 22.10+)
  • Fix generation of AppArmor profile with incorrect revision during multi snap refresh
  • Fix refresh app awareness related deadlock edge case
  • Fix not caching delta updated snap download
  • Fix passing non root uid, guid to initial tmpfs mount
  • Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending
  • Fix reloading of service activation units to avoid systemd errors
  • Fix snapd snap FIPS build on Launchpad to use Advantage Pro FIPS updates PPA
  • Make killing of snap apps best effort to avoid possibility of malicious failure loop
  • Alleviate impact of auto-refresh failure loop with progressive delay
  • Dropped timedatex in selinux-policy to avoid runtime issue
  • Fix missing syscalls in seccomp profile
  • Modify AppArmor template to allow using SNAP_REEXEC on arch systems
  • Modify AppArmor template to allow using vim.tiny (available in base snaps)
  • Modify AppArmor template to add read-access to debian_version
  • Modify AppArmor template to allow owner to read @{PROC}/@{pid}/sessionid
  • {common,personal,system}-files interface: prohibit trailing @ in filepaths
  • {desktop,shutdown,system-observe,upower-observe} interface: improve for Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • custom-device interface: allow @ in custom-device filepaths
  • desktop interface: improve launch entry and systray integration with session
  • desktop-legacy interface: allow DBus access to com.canonical.dbusmenu
  • fwupd interface: allow access to nvmem for thunderbolt plugin
  • mpris interface: add plasmashell as label
  • mount-control interface: add support for nfs mounts
  • network-{control,manager} interface: add missing dbus link rules
  • network-manager-observe interface: add getDevices methods
  • opengl interface: add Kernel Fusion Driver access to opengl
  • screen-inhibit-control interface: improve screen inhibit control for use on core
  • udisks2 interface: allow ping of the UDisks2 service
  • u2f-devices interface: add Nitrokey Passkey

New in snapd 2.66.1:

  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): Fix kernel prompting support check
  • Allow kernel snaps to have content slots
  • Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending

New in snapd 2.66:

  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): expand kernel support checks
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): consolidate error messages and add error kinds
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): grant /v2/snaps/{name} via snap-interfaces-requests-control
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add checks for duplicate pattern variants
  • Registry views (experimental): add handlers that commit (and cleanup) registry transactions
  • Registry views (experimental): add a snapctl fail command for rejecting registry transactions
  • Registry views (experimental): allow custodian snaps to implement registry hooks that modify and save registry data
  • Registry views (experimental): run view-changed hooks only for snaps plugging views affected by modified paths
  • Registry views (experimental): make registry transactions serialisable
  • Snap components: handle refreshing components to revisions that have been on the system before
  • Snap components: enable creating Ubuntu Core images that contain components
  • Snap components: handle refreshing components independently of snaps
  • Snap components: handle removing components when refreshing a snap that no longer defines them
  • Snap components: extend snapd Ubuntu Core installation API to allow for picking optional snaps and components to install
  • Snap components: extend kernel.yaml with "dynamic-modules", allowing kernel to define a location for kmods from component hooks
  • Snap components: renamed component type "test" to "standard"
  • Desktop IDs: support installing desktop files with custom names based on desktop-file-ids desktop interface plug attr
  • Auto-install snapd on classic systems as prerequisite for any non-essential snap install
  • Support loading AppArmor profiles on WSL2 with non-default kernel and securityfs mounted
  • Debian/Fedora packaging updates
  • Add snap debug command for investigating execution aspects of the snap toolchain
  • Improve snap pack error for easier parsing
  • Add support for user services when refreshing snaps
  • Add snap remove --terminate flag for terminating running snap processes
  • Support building FIPS complaint snapd deb and snap
  • Fix to not use nss when looking up for users/groups from snapd snap
  • Fix ordering in which layout changes are saved
  • Patch snapd snap dynamic linker to ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH and related variables
  • Fix libexec dir for openSUSE Slowroll
  • Fix handling of the shared snap directory for parallel installs
  • Allow writing to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log by default
  • Avoid state lock during snap removal to avoid delaying other snapd operations
  • Add nomad-support interface to enable running Hashicorp Nomad
  • Add intel-qat interface
  • u2f-devices interface: add u2f trustkey t120 product id and fx series fido u2f devices
  • desktop interface: improve integration with xdg-desktop-portal
  • desktop interface: add desktop-file-ids plug attr to desktop interface
  • unity7 interface: support desktop-file-ids in desktop files rule generation
  • desktop-legacy interface: support desktop-file-ids in desktop files rule generation
  • desktop-legacy interface: grant access to gcin socket location
  • login-session-observe interface: allow introspection
  • custom-device interface: allow to explicitly identify matching device in udev tagging block
  • system-packages-doc interface: allow reading /usr/share/javascript
  • modem-manager interface: add new format of WWAN ports
  • pcscd interface: allow pcscd to read opensc.conf
  • cpu-control interface: add IRQ affinity control to cpu_control
  • opengl interface: add support for cuda workloads on Tegra iGPU in opengl interface

New in snapd 2.65.3:

  • Fix missing aux info from store on snap setup

New in snapd 2.65.2:

  • Bump squashfuse from version 0.5.0 to 0.5.2 (used in snapd deb only)

New in snapd 2.65.1:

  • Support building snapd using base Core22 (Snapcraft 8.x)
  • FIPS: support building FIPS complaint snapd variant that switches to FIPS mode when the system boots with FIPS enabled
  • AppArmor: update to latest 4.0.2 release
  • AppArmor: enable using ABI 4.0 from host parser
  • AppArmor: fix parser lookup
  • AppArmor: support AppArmor snippet priorities
  • AppArmor: allow reading cgroup memory.max file
  • AppArmor: allow using snap-exec coming from the snapd snap when starting a confined process with jailmode
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add checks for prompting support, include prompting status in system key, and restart snapd if prompting flag changes
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): include prompt prefix in AppArmor rules if prompting is supported and enabled
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add common types, constraints, and mappings from AppArmor permissions to abstract permissions
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern parsing and matching
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern precedence based on specificity
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add packages to manage outstanding request prompts and rules
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): add prompting API and notice types, which require snap-interfaces-requests-control interface
  • AppArmor prompting (experimental): feature flag can only be enabled if prompting is supported, handler service connected, and the service can be started
  • Registry views (experimental): rename from aspects to registries
  • Registry views (experimental): support reading registry views and setting/unsetting registry data using snapctl
  • Registry views (experimental): fetch and refresh registry assertions as needed
  • Registry views (experimental): restrict view paths from using a number as first character and view names to storage path style patterns
  • Snap components: support installing snaps and components from files at the same time (no REST API/CLI)
  • Snap components: support downloading components related assertions from the store
  • Snap components: support installing components from the store
  • Snap components: support removing components individually and during snap removal
  • Snap components: support kernel modules as components
  • Snap components: support for component install, pre-refresh and post-refresh hooks
  • Snap components: initial support for building systems that contain components
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): add data field for /v2/changes REST API to allow associating each task with affected snaps
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): use the app name from .desktop file in notifications
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): give snap-refresh-observe interface access to /v2/snaps/{name} endpoint
  • Improve snap-confine compatibility with nvidia drivers
  • Allow re-exec when SNAP_REEXEC is set for unlisted distros to simplify testing
  • Allow mixing revision and channel on snap install
  • Generate GNU build ID for Go binaries
  • Add missing etelpmoc.sh for shell completion
  • Do not attempt to run snapd on classic when re-exec is disabled
  • Packaging/build maintenance for Debian sid, Fedora, Arch, openSuse
  • Add snap debug API command to enable running raw queries
  • Enable snap-confine snap mount directory detection
  • Replace global seccomp filter with deny rules in standard seccomp template
  • Remove support for Ubuntu Core Launcher (superseded by snap-confine)
  • Support creating pending serial bound users after serial assertion becomes available
  • Support disabling cloud-init using kernel command-line
  • In hybrid systems, apps can refresh without waiting for restarts required by essential snaps
  • Ship snap-debug-info.sh script used for system diagnostics
  • Improve error messages when attempting to run non-existent snap
  • Switch to -u UID:GID for strace-static
  • Support enabling snapd logging with snap set system debug.snapd.{log,log-level}
  • Add options system.coredump.enable and system.coredump.maxuse to support using systemd-coredump on Ubuntu Core
  • Provide documentation URL for 'snap interface '
  • Fix snapd riscv64 build
  • Fix restarting activated services instead of their activator units (i.e. sockets, timers)
  • Fix potential unexpected auto-refresh of snap on managed schedule
  • Fix potential segfault by guarding against kernel command-line changes on classic system
  • Fix proxy entries in /etc/environment with missing newline that caused later manual entries to not be usable
  • Fix offline remodelling by ignoring prerequisites that will otherwise be downloaded from store
  • Fix devmode seccomp deny regression that caused spamming the log instead of actual denies
  • Fix snap lock leak during refresh
  • Fix not re-pinning validation sets that were already pinned when enforcing new validation sets
  • Fix handling of unexpected snapd runtime failure
  • Fix /v2/notices REST API skipping notices with duplicate timestamps
  • Fix comparing systemd versions that may contain pre-release suffixes
  • Fix udev potentially starting before snap-device-helper is made available
  • Fix race in snap seed metadata loading
  • Fix treating cloud-init exit status 2 as error
  • Fix to prevent sending refresh complete notification if snap snap-refresh-observe interface is connected
  • Fix to queue snapctl service commands if run from the default-configure hook to ensure they get up-to-date config values
  • Fix stop service failure when the service is not actually running anymore
  • Fix parsing /proc/PID/mounts with spaces
  • Add registry interface that provides snaps access to a particular registry view
  • Add snap-interfaces-requests-control interface to enable prompting client snaps
  • steam-support interface: remove all AppArmor and seccomp restrictions to improve user experience
  • opengl interface: improve compatibility with nvidia drivers
  • home interface: autoconnect home on Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • serial-port interface: support RPMsg tty
  • display-control interface: allow changing LVDS backlight power and brightness
  • power-control interface: support for battery charging thesholds, type/status and AC type/status
  • cpu-control interface: allow CPU C-state control
  • raw-usb interface: support RPi5 and Thinkpad x13s
  • custom-device interface: allow device file locking
  • lxd-support interface: allow LXD to self-manage its own cgroup
  • network-manager interface: support MPTCP sockets
  • network-control interface: allow plug/slot access to gnutls config and systemd resolved cache flushing via D-Bus
  • network-control interface: allow wpa_supplicant dbus api
  • gpio-control interface: support gpiochip* devices
  • polkit interface: fix "rw" mount option check
  • u2f-devices interface: enable additional security keys
  • desktop interface: enable kde theming support

New in snapd 2.64:

  • Support building snapd using base Core22 (Snapcraft 8.x)
  • FIPS: support building FIPS complaint snapd variant that switches to FIPS mode when the system boots with FIPS enabled
  • AppArmor: update to AppArmor 4.0.1
  • AppArmor: support AppArmor snippet priorities
  • AppArmor prompting: add checks for prompting support, include prompting status in system key, and restart snapd if prompting flag changes
  • AppArmor prompting: include prompt prefix in AppArmor rules if prompting is supported and enabled
  • AppArmor prompting: add common types, constraints, and mappings from AppArmor permissions to abstract permissions
  • AppArmor prompting: add path pattern parsing and matching
  • Registry views (experimental): rename from aspects to registries
  • Registry views (experimental): support reading registry views using snapctl
  • Registry views (experimental): restrict view paths from using a number as first character and view names to storage path style patterns
  • Snap components: support installing snaps and components from files at the same time (no REST API/CLI)
  • Snap components: support downloading components related assertions from the store
  • Snap components: support installing components from the store (no REST API/CLI)
  • Snap components: support removing components (REST API, no CLI)
  • Snap components: started support for component hooks
  • Snap components: support kernel modules as components
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): add data field for /v2/changes REST API to allow associating each task with affected snaps
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): use the app name from .desktop file in notifications
  • Refresh app awareness (experimental): give snap-refresh-observe interface access to /v2/snaps/{name} endpoint
  • Allow re-exec when SNAP_REEXEC is set for unlisted distros to simplify testing
  • Generate GNU build ID for Go binaries
  • Add missing etelpmoc.sh for shell completion
  • Do not attempt to run snapd on classic when re-exec is disabled
  • Packaging/build maintenance for Debian sid, Fedora, Arch, openSuse
  • Add snap debug api command to enable running raw queries
  • Enable snap-confine snap mount directory detection
  • Replace global seccomp filter with deny rules in standard seccomp template
  • Remove support for Ubuntu Core Launcher (superseded by snap-confine)
  • Support creating pending serial bound users after serial assertion becomes available
  • Support disabling cloud-init using kernel command-line
  • In hybrid systems, apps can refresh without waiting for restarts required by essential snaps
  • Ship snap-debug-info.sh script used for system diagnostics
  • Improve error messages when attempting to run non-existent snap
  • Switch to -u UID:GID for strace-static
  • Support enabling snapd logging with snap set system debug.snapd.{log,log-level}
  • Fix restarting activated services instead of their activator units (i.e. sockets, timers)
  • Fix potential unexpected auto-refresh of snap on managed schedule
  • Fix potential segfault by guarding against kernel command-line changes on classic system
  • Fix proxy entries in /etc/environment with missing newline that caused later manual entries to not be usable
  • Fix offline remodelling by ignoring prerequisites that will otherwise be downloaded from store
  • Fix devmode seccomp deny regression that caused spamming the log instead of actual denies
  • Fix snap lock leak during refresh
  • Fix not re-pinning validation sets that were already pinned when enforcing new validation sets
  • Fix handling of unexpected snapd runtime failure
  • Fix /v2/notices REST API skipping notices with duplicate timestamps
  • Fix comparing systemd versions that may contain pre-release suffixes
  • Fix udev potentially starting before snap-device-helper is made available
  • Fix race in snap seed metadata loading
  • Fix treating cloud-init exit status 2 as error
  • Fix to prevent sending refresh complete notification if snap snap-refresh-observe interface is connected
  • Fix to queue snapctl service commands if run from the default-configure hook to ensure they get up-to-date config values
  • Fix stop service failure when the service is not actually running anymore
  • Add registry interface that provides snaps access to a particular registry view
  • steam-support interface: relaxed AppArmor and seccomp restrictions to improve user experience
  • home interface: autoconnect home on Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • serial-port interface: support RPMsg tty
  • display-control interface: allow changing LVDS backlight power and brightness
  • power-control interface: support for battery charging thesholds, type/status and AC type/status
  • cpu-control interface: allow CPU C-state control
  • raw-usb interface: support RPi5 and Thinkpad x13s
  • custom-device interface: allow device file locking
  • lxd-support interface: allow LXD to self-manage its own cgroup
  • network-manager interface: support MPTCP sockets
  • network-control interface: allow plug/slot access to gnutls config and systemd resolved cache flushing via D-Bus

New in snapd 2.63:

  • Support for snap services to show the current status of user services (experimental)
  • Refresh app awareness: record snap-run-inhibit notice when starting app from snap that is busy with refresh (experimental)
  • Refresh app awareness: use warnings as fallback for desktop notifications (experimental)
  • Aspect based configuration: make request fields in the aspect-bundle's rules optional (experimental)
  • Aspect based configuration: make map keys conform to the same format as path sub-keys (experimental)
  • Aspect based configuration: make unset and set behaviour similar to configuration options (experimental)
  • Aspect based configuration: limit nesting level for setting value (experimental)
  • Components: use symlinks to point active snap component revisions
  • Components: add model assertion support for components
  • Components: fix to ensure local component installation always gets a new revision number
  • Add basic support for a CIFS remote filesystem-based home directory
  • Add support for AppArmor profile kill mode to avoid snap-confine error
  • Allow more than one interface to grant access to the same API endpoint or notice type
  • Allow all snapd service's control group processes to send systemd notifications to prevent warnings flooding the log
  • Enable not preseeded single boot install
  • Update secboot to handle new sbatlevel
  • Fix to not use cgroup for non-strict confined snaps (devmode, classic)
  • Fix two race conditions relating to freedesktop notifications
  • Fix missing tunables in snap-update-ns AppArmor template
  • Fix rejection of snapd snap udev command line by older host snap-device-helper
  • Rework seccomp allow/deny list
  • Clean up files removed by gadgets
  • Remove non-viable boot chains to avoid secboot failure
  • posix_mq interface: add support for missing time64 mqueue syscalls mq_timedreceive_time64 and mq_timedsend_time64
  • password-manager-service interface: allow kwalletd version 6
  • kubernetes-support interface: allow SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets
  • system-observe interface: allow listing systemd units and their properties
  • opengl interface: enable use of nvidia container toolkit CDI config generation

New in snapd 2.62:

  • Aspects based configuration schema support (experimental)
  • Refresh app awareness support for UI (experimental)
  • Support for user daemons by introducing new control switches --user/--system/--users for service start/stop/restart (experimental)
  • Add AppArmor prompting experimental flag (feature currently unsupported)
  • Installation of local snap components of type test
  • Packaging of components with snap pack
  • Expose experimental features supported/enabled in snapd REST API endpoint /v2/system-info
  • Support creating and removing recovery systems for use by factory reset
  • Enable API route for creating and removing recovery systems using /v2/systems with action create and /v2/systems/{label} with action remove
  • Lift requirements for fde-setup hook for single boot install
  • Enable single reboot gadget update for UC20+
  • Allow core to be removed on classic systems
  • Support for remodeling on hybrid systems
  • Install desktop files on Ubuntu Core and update after snapd upgrade
  • Upgrade sandbox features to account for cgroup v2 device filtering
  • Support snaps to manage their own cgroups
  • Add support for AppArmor 4.0 unconfined profile mode
  • Add AppArmor based read access to /etc/default/keyboard
  • Upgrade to squashfuse 0.5.0
  • Support useradd utility to enable removing Perl dependency for UC24+
  • Support for recovery-chooser to use console-conf snap
  • Add support for --uid/--gid using strace-static
  • Add support for notices (from pebble) and expose via the snapd REST API endpoints /v2/notices and /v2/notice
  • Add polkit authentication for snapd REST API endpoints /v2/snaps/{snap}/conf and /v2/apps
  • Add refresh-inhibit field to snapd REST API endpoint /v2/snaps
  • Add refresh-inhibited select query to REST API endpoint /v2/snaps
  • Take into account validation sets during remodeling
  • Improve offline remodeling to use installed revisions of snaps to fulfill the remodel revision requirement
  • Add rpi configuration option sdtv_mode
  • When snapd snap is not installed, pin policy ABI to 4.0 or 3.0 if present on host
  • Fix gadget zero-sized disk mapping caused by not ignoring zero sized storage traits
  • Fix gadget install case where size of existing partition was not correctly taken into account
  • Fix trying to unmount early kernel mount if it does not exist
  • Fix restarting mount units on snapd start
  • Fix call to udev in preseed mode
  • Fix to ensure always setting up the device cgroup for base bare and core24+
  • Fix not copying data from newly set homedirs on revision change
  • Fix leaving behind empty snap home directories after snap is removed (resulting in broken symlink)
  • Fix to avoid using libzstd from host by adding to snapd snap
  • Fix autorefresh to correctly handle forever refresh hold
  • Fix username regex allowed for system-user assertion to not allow '+'
  • Fix incorrect application icon for notification after autorefresh completion
  • Fix to restart mount units when changed
  • Fix to support AppArmor running under incus
  • Fix case of snap-update-ns dropping synthetic mounts due to failure to match desired mount dependencies
  • Fix parsing of base snap version to enable pre-seeding of Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • Fix packaging and tests for various distributions
  • Add remoteproc interface to allow developers to interact with Remote Processor Framework which enables snaps to load firmware to ARM Cortex microcontrollers
  • Add kernel-control interface to enable controlling the kernel firmware search path
  • Add nfs-mount interface to allow mounting of NFS shares
  • Add ros-opt-data interface to allow snaps to access the host /opt/ros/ paths
  • Add snap-refresh-observe interface that provides refresh-app-awareness clients access to relevant snapd API endpoints
  • steam-support interface: generalize Pressure Vessel root paths and allow access to driver information, features and container versions
  • steam-support interface: make implicit on Ubuntu Core Desktop
  • desktop interface: improved support for Ubuntu Core Desktop and limit autoconnection to implicit slots
  • cups-control interface: make autoconnect depend on presence of cupsd on host to ensure it works on classic systems
  • opengl interface: allow read access to /usr/share/nvidia
  • personal-files interface: extend to support automatic creation of missing parent directories in write paths
  • network-control interface: allow creating /run/resolveconf
  • network-setup-control and network-setup-observe interfaces: allow busctl bind as required for systemd 254+
  • libvirt interface: allow r/w access to /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-ro and read access to /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/**
  • fwupd interface: allow access to IMPI devices (including locking of device nodes), sysfs attributes needed by amdgpu and the COD capsule update directory
  • uio interface: allow configuring UIO drivers from userspace libraries
  • serial-port interface: add support for NXP Layerscape SoC
  • lxd-support interface: add attribute enable-unconfined-mode to require LXD to opt-in to run unconfined
  • block-devices interface: add support for ZFS volumes
  • system-packages-doc interface: add support for reading jquery and sphinx documentation
  • system-packages-doc interface: workaround to prevent autoconnect failure for snaps using base bare
  • microceph-support interface: allow more types of block devices to be added as an OSD
  • mount-observe interface: allow read access to /proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/mounts and proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/mountinfo
  • polkit interface: changed to not be implicit on core because installing policy files is not possible
  • upower-observe interface: allow stats refresh
  • gpg-public-keys interface: allow creating lock file for certain gpg operations
  • shutdown interface: allow access to SetRebootParameter method
  • media-control interface: allow device file locking
  • u2f-devices interface: support for Trustkey G310H, JaCarta U2F, Kensington VeriMark Guard, RSA DS100, Google Titan v2

New in snapd 2.61.3:

  • Install systemd files in correct location for 24.04

New in snapd 2.61.2:

  • Fix to enable plug/slot sanitization for prepare-image
  • Fix panic when device-service.access=offline
  • Support offline remodeling
  • Allow offline update only remodels without serial
  • Fail early when remodeling to old model revision
  • Fix to enable plug/slot sanitization for validate-seed
  • Allow removal of core snap on classic systems
  • Fix network-control interface denial for file lock on /run/netns
  • Add well-known core24 snap-id
  • Fix remodel snap installation order
  • Prevent remodeling from UC18+ to UC16
  • Fix cups auto-connect on classic with cups snap installed
  • u2f-devices interface support for GoTrust Idem Key with USB-C
  • Fix to restore services after unlink failure
  • Add libcudnn.so to Nvidia libraries
  • Fix skipping base snap download due to false snapd downgrade conflict

New in snapd 2.61.1:

  • Stop requiring default provider snaps on image building and first boot if alternative providers are included and available
  • Fix auth.json access for login as non-root group ID
  • Fix incorrect remodelling conflict when changing track to older snapd version
  • Improved check-rerefresh message
  • Fix UC16/18 kernel/gadget update failure due volume mismatch with installed disk
  • Stop auto-import of assertions during install modes
  • Desktop interface exposes GetIdletime
  • Polkit interface support for new polkit versions
  • Fix not applying snapd snap changes in tracked channel when remodelling

New in snapd 2.61:

  • Fix control of activated services in 'snap start' and 'snap stop'
  • Correctly reflect activated services in 'snap services'
  • Disabled services are no longer enabled again when snap is refreshed
  • interfaces/builtin: added support for Token2 U2F keys
  • interfaces/u2f-devices: add Swissbit iShield Key
  • interfaces/builtin: update gpio apparmor to match pattern that contains multiple subdirectories under /sys/devices/platform
  • interfaces: add a polkit-agent interface
  • interfaces: add pcscd interface
  • Kernel command-line can now be edited in the gadget.yaml
  • Only track validation-sets in run-mode, fixes validation-set issues on first boot.
  • Added support for using store.access to disable access to snap store
  • Support for fat16 partition in gadget
  • Pre-seed authority delegation is now possible
  • Support new system-user name daemon
  • Several bug fixes and improvements around remodelling
  • Offline remodelling support

New in snapd 2.60.4:

  • Switch to plug/slot in the "qualcomm-ipc-router" interface but keeping backward compatibility
  • Fix "custom-device" udev KERNEL values
  • Allow firmware-updater snap to install user-daemons
  • Allow loopback as a block device

NEW in snapd 2.60.3:

  • Fix bug in the "private" plug attribute of the shared-memory interface that can result in a crash when upgrading from an old version of snapd.
  • Fix missing integration of the /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ apparmor to support non-standard home directories

New in snapd 2.60.2:

  • Performance improvements for apparmor_parser to compensate for the slower -O expr-simplify default used. This should bring the performance back to the 2.60 level and even increase it for many use-cases.
  • Bugfixes

New in snapd 2.60.1:

  • Bugfixes
  • Use "aes-cbc-essiv:sha256" in cryptsetup on arm 32bit devices to increase speed on devices with CAAM support
  • Stop using -O no-expr-simplify in apparmor_parser to avoid potential exponential memory use. This can lead to slower policy complication in some cases but it is much safer on low memory devices.

New in snapd 2.60:

  • Support for dynamic snapshot data exclusions
  • Apparmor userspace is vendored inside the snapd snap
  • Added a default-configure hook that exposes gadget default configuration options to snaps during first install before services are started
  • Allow install from initrd to speed up the initial installation for systems that do not have a install-device hook
  • New snap sign --chain flag that appends the account and account-key assertions
  • Support validation-sets in the model assertion
  • Support new "min-size" field in gadget.yaml
  • New interface: "userns"

New in snapd 2.59.5:

  • Explicitly disallow the use of ioctl + TIOCLINUX This fixes CVE-2023-1523.

New in snapd 2.59.4:

  • Retry when looking for disk label on non-UEFI systems
  • Fix remodel from UC20 to UC22

New in snapd 2.59.3:

  • Fix quiet boot
  • Ignore case for vfat paritions when validating
  • Restart always enabled units

New in snapd 2.59.2:

  • Notify users when a user triggered auto refresh finished

New in snapd 2.59.1:

  • Add udev rules from steam-devices to steam-support interface
  • Bugfixes for layout path checking, dm_crypt permissions, mount-control interface parameter checking, kernel commandline parsing, docker-support, refresh-app-awareness

New in snapd 2.59:

  • Support setting extra kernel command line parameters via snap configuration and under a gadget allow-list
  • Support for Full-Disk-Encryption using ICE
  • Support for arbitrary home dir locations via snap configuration
  • New nvidia-drivers-support interface
  • Support for udisks2 snap
  • Pre-download of snaps ready for refresh and automatic refresh of the snap when all apps are closed
  • New microovn interface
  • Support uboot with CONFIG_SYS_REDUNDAND_ENV=n
  • Make "snap-preseed --reset" re-exec when needed
  • Update the fwupd interface to support fully confined fwupd
  • The memory,cpu,thread quota options are no longer experimental
  • Support debugging snap client requests via the SNAPD_CLIENT_DEBUG_HTTP environment variable
  • Support ssh listen-address via snap configuration
  • Support for quotas on single services
  • prepare-image now takes into account snapd versions going into the image, including in the kernel initrd, to fetch supported assertion formats