Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.30 Snappy Packaging Tool for Ubuntu Linux OSes

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical’s Sergio Schvezov was proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Snapcraft 2.30, a major milestone of the open-source Snappy packaging tool used to package apps in the Snap universal binary format.

Snapcraft 2.30 comes more than a month after the Snapcraft 2.29 release, and it’s here to add a highly requested change, namely the refactoring of the command-line interface (CLI) to offer a much cleaner UI to newcomers, but without breaking backwards compatibility.

While support for assigned containers per project in Snapcraft remains hidden by the feature flag, requiring users to set the SNAPCRAFT_CONTAINER_BUILDS environment variable if they want to enable it, it’s been extended in this new release to work with all of the Snapcraft build commands.

“cleanbuild now correctly works when using the :arch syntax in build-packages and stage-packages, this is for example, having a stage-packages entry that ends with :i386 when cleanbuilding on amd6… (read more)

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