Canonical Releases Snapd 2.22 Snappy Daemon for Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04 and 16.10

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Today, January 30, 2017, Canonical, through Michael Vogt, had the pleasure of announcing the availability of the snapd 2.22 Snappy daemon for Ubuntu Linux.

Snapd 2.22 comes about 17 days after version 2.21, and it introduces a bunch of new features like support for X-Ayatana-Desktop-Shortcuts in desktop files, automatic transition of Snaps from ubuntu-core to core, support for a new “reload-command” option in snap.yaml, and the ability to disable sshd (SSH daemon) from the core config.

It also improves the OpenGL, network-manager, network-control, and default interfaces, and introduces brand-new ones like unity8-download-manager, core-support, account-control, as well as evolution. Furthermore, Snapd 2.22 attempts to further improve the retry handling on network errors and makes the “snap try” command to work with classic confinement.

“One of the most important aspects of this release is that we transition users who have the “ubuntu-core” snap installed over to th… (read more)

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