ANN: snapcraft 2.0 is now available

[Sergio Schvezov]

Hi all,

We are happy to announce this release new version (2.0) of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.0

2.0 marks a new beginning for snapcraft, targeting only Xenial Xerus
(16.04) aligned with all the changes 16.04 is bringing to the table. The
changelog for this release is quite big, so I invite you to directly check
it out in the milestone link, in summary though there have been:

- snapcraft lifecycle changes.
- meta data changes to have a natural feel with snap.yaml and the new
language being put in place for 16.04.
- a fancier command line interface.
- squashfs based snaps, which inherently only work on 16.04

To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus, we suggest you
install the snapcraft package from the Ubuntu Archives:

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install snapcraft

If you don't want to consume the examples from the source branch you can
also install the examples package:

    sudo apt install snapcraft-examples

After installing this you can find them in
/usr/share/doc/snapcraft-examples/examples. There are some new examples
included in this release as well.

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.0

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snappy-app-devel mailing list or directly in the #snappy
channel on irc.freenode.net.

To file bugs, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug.

Happy snapcrafting,
 - Sergio and the team


PS: This version of snapcraf will be demoed today during the two snappy
related talks at UbuCon Summit (
http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/schedule/)
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