ANN: snapd 2.0.8 available in 16.04

[Michael Vogt]

Snapd 2.0.8 available in 16.04
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The snappy team is very happy to announce that the 2.0.8 release is
now available in 16.04 via "xenial-updates".

The 2.0.8 release contains a number of improvements and fixes over the
previous 2.0.5 release that was availalbe before. The highlights:

- automatically refresh all installed snaps daily
- new `snap refresh` and `snap refresh --list` commands
- new `snap try` command
- support for fcitx and mozc input methods in the unity7 interface
- add global gsettings interface
- autoconnect the "home" interface
- add "socketcall" to allowed syscalls in the "network-bind" inteface
- new "cups" interface
- make snapd read /etc/environment (allows easier global http_proxy
  settings)
- allow AppMenu and launcher API for unity7
- add new location-observer interface
- allow updates to snapd via updates to the OS snap
- fix bug about "app names" being too lenient

A more verbose changelog is available
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/master/debian/changelog and the
full details can be found here:
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/tree/2.0.8

We hope you like it as much as we do. If you find any issues, please
let us know via:
 http://bugs.launchpad.net/snappy

Thanks!
 Michael (on behalf of the snappy team)