📰 Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.17 Tool for Creating Snaps on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Today, September 16 2016, Canonical's Sergio Schvezov was proud to announce the release of yet another maintenance update to the Snapcraft tool that helps application developers package their apps as Snaps for Ubuntu and other Linux OSes. The biggest new features implemented in the Snapcraft 2.17 release are the implementation of the "snapcraft list-keys" and "snapcraft-register-key" commands, globbing support for the "organize" keyword for parts, as well as a brand new "python" plugin that combines code from both "python2" and "python3" plugins. "This new plugin creates leaner snaps, works better with regards to build environments, separates `stage-packages` from package brought in with `pip` and solves many latent bugs from the previous incantation of the python plugins," says Sergio Schvezov in today's announcement. Various bugs were fixed as well, so you should check... ...