ANN: snapcraft 2.4 is now available

[Sergio Schvezov]

Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.4 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.4
<https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.4>.

This release includes many improvements and features such as:

- migration from skills to interfaces.
- support for parallel builds for plugins that support it
- support for a daemon's restart condition.
- A --debug flag to make plugin writing easier

There have also been many small improvements and polish, worthy of
mention are:

- cleaner output, or better said we removed some no value add output to
your screens.
- some smarter source management for subdirs.
- clearer human understandable errors when using improper
build-packages, catkin-packages or invalid commands for apps

To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus (16.04), 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.

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.4
<https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.4>

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
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug>.

Happy snapcrafting,
 - Sergio and the team

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