Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.9 Tool for Creating Snaps for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | Linux Today

Canonical Announces Snapcraft 2.9 Tool for Creating Snaps for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

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Marius Nestor
May 30, 2016

Snapcraft 2.9 is an important milestone because it’s the first release since the launch of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) on April 21, 2016, bringing brand-new features like support for the “confinement” YAML property, allowing users to choose if their Snap package should be installed with the devmode option in confined mode or functional.

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Marius Nestor

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