New stable "core" and "ubuntu-core" snaps released

2017-01-05 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The Snappy Team are happy to announce that we have a new version of the "core" snap in the stable channel. It is based on snapd 2.20 and contains all the good features of 2.20 that got announced in [1]. We also updated the "ubuntu-core" snap in the stable to be better aligned with the "core"

snapd 2.20 release available in {xenial,yakkety}-updates

2017-01-05 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, the new snapd version 2.20 is now available for everyone on Ubuntu 16.04 and 16.10 via xenial-updates and yakkety-updates. It contains some nice improvements and fixes, see [1] for the details. The other distros will be updated shortly. The snapd 14.04 version is not quite ready yet, we are

Re: snapd 2.20 release available in {xenial,yakkety}-updates

2017-01-06 Thread Michael Vogt
nce to fix the xserver bug [3] (below). Cheers, Michael > On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 2:13 PM, Michael Vogt > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > > > the new snapd version 2.20 is now available for everyone on Ubuntu > > 16.04 and 16.10 via xenial-updates and yakkety-updates.

New snapd 2.21 release

2017-01-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The snappy team is proud to announce the release of snapd 2.21. After a refreshing holiday season we are back in action and have built some interesting new features! The focus was improving classic confinement and aliases support. Here are just some of the highlights: - improve alias handlin

New stable "core" and "ubuntu-core" snaps released

2017-01-26 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The Snappy Team are happy to announce that we have a new version of the "core" and "ubuntu-core" snaps in the stable channel. They are based on snapd 2.21 and contains all the features of 2.21 that got announced in [1]. As always, your devices will update and reboot automatically. Please l

New snapd 2.22 release

2017-01-30 Thread Michael Vogt
Hello everyone, after slightly more than two weeks we have a new release of snapd! We are happy to announce the new snapd 2.22. One of the most important aspects of this release is that we transition users who have the "ubuntu-core" snap installed over to the new "core" snap. It should be totall

New stable "core" and "ubuntu-core" snaps released

2017-02-16 Thread Michael Vogt
Hello, The Snappy team is happy to announce the promotion of snapd 2.22.2 from the candidate channel to stable in both the "core" and "ubuntu-core" snaps. It will also be available via the regular apt update mechanism in Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 16.10. Other distributions will follow on their own s

New snapd 2.23 release

2017-03-03 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The snappy team is happy to announce the new snapd 2.23 release! The new release is available in the "core" (and "ubuntu-core") snap on the "candidate" channel and also in the Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 16.10 "proposed" pockets and in 17.04. To install this new release you need to run the followin

New snapd 2.23.1 release

2017-03-09 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi all, on top of 2.23 we released a small bugfix release: 2.23.1. We noticed that an incompatiblity in the content interface slipped into the 2.23 release and this is fixed now in 2.23.1. We used the opportunity to fix some more small bugs in 2.23.1, most importantly a bug that can result in an

Re: no hardware description in Gadget snap for building an image

2016-07-28 Thread Michael Vogt
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:50:54PM +0800, Woodrow Shen wrote: > Hi all, Hi Woodrow, thanks for your mail! > It seems the latest revision 8 has a lack of hardware section for gadget > snap. > I think someone is working on it now, but hope we can make sure the snap > uploaded to edge channel can wo

Boot environment variables changes

2016-08-10 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, as part of our work to create device images, we recently changed and simplified the boot environment variables that are used by the gadget snap. If you work on creating gadget snaps, there are some small tweaks that you need to do: The "snappy_{os,kernel}" boot variable names got changed to "

New ubuntu-core snap in the candidate channel

2016-08-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Hello! We have updated the "ubuntu-core" snap in the candidate channel. It passes our spread QA tests and we want to promote it into the stable channel soon. It contains a ton of bugfixes, as well as new features that are important for the upcoming all-snap images, and will allow us to switch to

New experimental images

2016-08-19 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, we have a set of new experimental images available at: http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/all-snaps/16/ These images fix some bugs around the new upgrade code in grub/uboot. So if you experienced strange issues here those should be fixed now (and our automatic tests got fixed to check for

New snapd 2.12 release in 16.04 & new core snap

2016-08-25 Thread Michael Vogt
Hello, the snappy team is happy to announce that the snapd 2.12 release is released into Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial-updates) and Fedora 24 (COPR). Other distribution will follow soon. We also did a new release of the "core" snap that contains this version of snapd. Snapd will automatically refresh you

New 2.13 snapd release available

2016-08-29 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, 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. We also released a new version of the "core" snap that contains this version of snapd. Some highlights: - snap assertions checking is working end-to-end

Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available

2016-09-07 Thread Michael Vogt
Ubuntu Core 16 Images = The Ubuntu snappy team is happy to announce the first beta images for Ubuntu Core 16. The images use the snapd package manager to install and update all components of the system including kernel, core, gadget and applications. The images are available

New snapd 2.14.2 release available

2016-09-08 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, we are happy to announce that the 2.14.2 release of snapd is released in Ubuntu 16.04 and Fedora 24 (COPR). Other distributions will follow soon. We also released a new version of the "core" snap that contains this version of snapd. Some highlights: - When installing snaps without assertions

Re: Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available

2016-09-15 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, a quick followup with some suggestions how to improve the user experience when working with the amd64 and pi2 images. On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 11:50:54PM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote: [..] > The images are bootable, the pc image can be booted directly in > qemu-kvm or virtualenv. Som

Updated Ubuntu Core 16 beta images available

2016-09-19 Thread Michael Vogt
Ubuntu Core 16 Images = The Ubuntu snappy team is happy to announce new beta images for Ubuntu Core 16. The images use the snapd package manager to install and update all components of the system including kernel, core, gadget and applications. Some hightlights for this relea

Ubuntu Core 16 Feature Freeze

2016-10-06 Thread Michael Vogt
The Snappy team is happy to announce the Feature Freeze of Ubuntu Core 16, which means all the major features planned for the stable series 16 image have landed, and the upcoming weeks will consist exclusively of stabilization and polishing. Ubuntu Core is an operating system entirely based on sna

Ubuntu Core 16 Release Candidate

2016-10-20 Thread Michael Vogt
t account). These images follow the "candidate" channel. If you find any issues, please let us know via: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/ Enjoy the fresh images! Cheers, Michael Vogt (on behalf of the Snappy team) signature.asc Description: PGP signature -- Snapcraft mailin

Ubuntu Core 16 Release Candidate 2 (with Pi and more)

2016-10-27 Thread Michael Vogt
ot; channel. If you find any issues, please let us know via: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy/ Enjoy the fresh images! Cheers, Michael Vogt (on behalf of the Snappy team) -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snapcraft

Ubuntu Core 16 Final!

2016-11-03 Thread Michael Vogt
launchpad.net/snappy/ Ubuntu Core 16 follows a rolling release model, security updates and bug fixes will come to you via regular over the air updates for the lifetime of the release. Enjoy this release! Cheers, Michael Vogt (on behalf of the Snappy team) -- Snapcraft mailing list Snapcra

New snapd 2.18 release and new candidate core snap

2016-11-24 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The Snappy Team are happy to announce that the 2.18 release of snapd is available on GitHub [1]. We have also released a new version of the "core" snap that contains this version of snapd into the "candidate" channel. On your Ubuntu Core 16 devices please run: $ snap refresh --candidate core

Re: sha3-384 mismatch

2016-12-02 Thread Michael Vogt
On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 02:32:03PM +0100, David Barth wrote: > On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Pegenaute Bresme, Xavier < > xpegenaut...@iam.cat> wrote: [..] > > - Download snap "snapweb" (25) from channel "stable" (sha3-384 mismatch > > downloading snapweb: got 8b83c8eb7f7aa306bc342fd1b424fa > > 9

"core" snap in the candidate channel updated

2016-12-06 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, this is just a quick heads up that we updated the "core" snap to snapd 2.18.1 in the candidate channel to include the following important bugfixes: - daemon: fix crash when `snap refresh` contains a single update This is a regression that can block updates under certain conditions. - fix un

"core" snap in the candidate channel updated

2016-12-07 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, we updated the "core" snap in the candidate channel today for amd64, i386 and armhf. The arm64 "core" snap will be updated later today once all tests pass. The important change is that the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf got removed. This is required to ensure that hardware that

New stable core snap

2016-12-08 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The Snappy Team are happy to announce that we have a new version of the "core" snap in the stable channel. It is based on snapd 2.18.1 and contains all the good features of 2.18 that got announced in [1]. In addition we did some small and targeted fixes that resulted in two more candidate sna

New 2.20 snapd release

2016-12-16 Thread Michael Vogt
Hi, The snappy team is happy to announce the 2.20 release of snapd! This version of snapd is available in the candidate "core" snap and it will be available in the {trusty,xenial,yakkety}-proposed archive of Ubuntu soon [1]. Other distributions will follow shortly. Please note that for the first