ANN: snapd 2.0.8 available in 16.04

[Simon Fels]

On 14.06.2016 06:25, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> On 14/06/16 00:17, Chris Wayne wrote:
>> Nice, great stuff!  Do we have any indication on when these changes
>> may land in an os snap?
> 
> I think they are automatically landed in OS snaps, because those are
> built from the Ubuntu archives (with a few additional archives for
> example to get the latest snapd).
> 
> One of the nice changes in 2.0.8 is that snapd will use the snapd from
> inside the OS snap, which means snapd-on-classic is updated whenever the
> os-snap is updated.

@Chris: New OS snaps are produced daily on
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/xenial/daily-preinstalled/current/
which will include whatever is available in xenial. AFAIK they are just
not yet pushed into the store automatically after passing a set of tests.

regards,
Simon