Canonical Releases Snapd 2.0.8 with Universal Snaps, New Desktop Interfaces

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

On June 15, 2016, Canonical’s David Callé proudly announced the availability of an updated version of the snapd tool for Snappy Ubuntu Core and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating systems.

snapd 2.0.8 is now live, coming one month after the release of snapd 2.0.3 to bring various improvements to the technology Canonical uses to interact with the Snappy infrastructure of Ubuntu Core, a variant of the Ubuntu Linux OS designed for embedded and IoT devices.

This appears to be a major milestone in the development of snapd, as it is the first release to allow developers and users to interact with Snaps, which Canonical announced the other day had become universal binary packages, supported on virtually… (read more)

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