Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.25 with Rust Plugin Improvements, Many Bug Fixes

Canonical's Sergio Schvezov is announcing the release of Snapcraft 2.25, the open-source tool designed to allow application developers, and anyone else for that matter, to package software projects to the Snap universal binary format.

Snapcraft 2.25 has been in development since December 16, 2016, when Canonical announced the release of Snapcraft 2.24, which most of you probably already use on their Ubuntu systems.

It's a pretty big update that gathers work from talented developers like Joe Talbott, Matthew Aguirre, Kyle Fazzari, Leo Arias, Marco Trevisan, Jonathon Love, Olivier Tilloy, Bayard Randel, and, of course, Sergio Schvezov.

The entire changelog is attached for your reading pleasure at the end of the article, but highlights of Snapcraft 2.25 include improved output for the parser, along with some other enhancements, and the implementation of aliases integration test.

Plugins like autotools, godeps, catkin, ant, make, nodejs, go, copy, python, qmake, and ...