📰 Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.15 for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Many New Features

We reported earlier on the release of the major Mir 0.24.0 display server for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, and now we would like to inform you about the latest Snapcraft 2.15 tool for packaging apps in the Snap universal binary format. Snapcraft 2.15 has been released recently, but it already received a first point release, version 2.15.1, and it looks like also landed in the main software repositories of the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system (see below to learn how to install the new version or update your Snapcraft installation). As for the new features, we can tell you that Snapcraft 2.15 adds built tags support to the Go plugin, lets you set fine grain control of parallel building per part, as well as to set constraints when using the Python2 plugin, and permits the in tree snapcraft.yaml file to also ref... ...