Canonical's Snapd 2.19 Snappy Daemon Launches for Ubuntu Core 16 & Ubuntu 16.04

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Canonical’s Michael Vogt announced the release and general availability of the Snapd 2.19 Snappy daemon for Ubuntu Core 16, Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating systems.

Snapd 2.19 is here almost three weeks after the release of Snapd 2.18 and only one week after its first maintenance update, version 2.18.1. According to the release notes, which we’ve attached at the end of the article for your reading pleasure, Snapd 2.19 is a major update implementing numerous improvements and new features.

Prominent new features include support for classic confinement, the merge of snap-confine into snapd, the ability to display the last refresh time, support for parsing and exposing snap.Info aliases, move to xdelta3 as default delta format for the Snappy Store, as well as AppArmor support for classic confinement to the interfaces.

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