📰 Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.19 Snap Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Canonical's Sergio Schvezov announced recently the release and immediate availability of the Snapcraft 2.19 tool for creating Snap universal packages, in the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 16.10 repos. Snapcraft 2.19 comes just one week after the release of the previous maintenance version, Snapcraft 2.18, and promises to add "kinetic" support to the "catkin" plugin, update the "nodejs" plugin to use "run" commands, implement a top-level "sign-build" command for build signing, and add support for validating and gating Snaps through two new commands, "gated" and "validate." "The latter make use of all the assertions work that has been worked on on the 'snapd', 'snapcraft' and store side (at the time of this writing the functionality might not be available on production servers just yet). As usual there are a handful of bugs fixed in the release which can be referred to on the milestone page," says Sergio Schvezov in the ...