ANN: snapd 2.0.8 available in 16.04

[Chris Wayne]

Nice, great stuff!  Do we have any indication on when these changes may
land in an os snap?

Thanks
Chris

On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Michael Vogt <michael.vogt at canonical.com>
wrote:

> Snapd 2.0.8 available in 16.04
> ==============================
>
> 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)
>
>
>
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