<div dir="ltr"><div id="release-notes">Snapcraft 0.5 is now available Hi all, We are happy to announce this release new version (0.5) of snapcraft: <a rel="nofollow" href="https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/0.5">https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/0.5</a> This release introduces quite a few bug fixes and some nice little things: - npm/nodejs plugin, look at the examples, the shout irc example is also on the store to consume. - nil plugin, externally contributed. - Better handling of shebangs for binaries and services. - No longer install recommends for packages. - snapcraft clean for individual parts. - A source-subdir keyword for parts. - Improvements to the go plugin, such as building locally and a go-packages keyword is introduced to have a similar experience as other plugins. - A pip-packages keyword for the python plugins to avoid the need to write a requirements.txt - Fixes for the copy plugin to support globs and better test coverage. - Minor fixes to the catkin plugin to better deal with errors. This release has many other bug fixes and improvements, these same release notes and the full changelog can be seen in the aforementioned link. To consume the latest snapcraft release on ubuntu, we suggest you install snapcraft package from the snappy tools release ppa: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:snappy-dev/tools sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install snapcraft If you don't want to consume the examples from the source branch you can also get them from the ppas above: sudo apt-get 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 <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft">https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft</a> A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on snapcraft is snappy-app-devel mailing list (<a rel="nofollow" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-app-devel">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/snappy-app-devel</a>) or directly in the #snappy channel on <a href="http://irc.freenode.net">irc.freenode.net</a>. To file bugs, please go to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug">https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug</a>. The team hopes to see you in the next snapcraft related snappy clinic where we will be going over most of these new additions. A special thanks to those outside the team who spent some time with the project in order to contribute for this milestone: - Sujeevan Vijayakumaran - Bjorn Tillenius - Paul Larson - Jonathan Cave - Daniel HolbachNOTICE: Looking into the future, this will be the last release with feature focused on 15.04, we will be stabilizing (bug fixing) and releasing a 1.0 that works on trusty, vivid and wily focusing on 15.04. In parallel we will start working on snapcraft 2.0 targeting the upcoming 16.04 release, this line of development will only be available on xenial (16.04) where we plan to align with much of the things mentioned in the snappy-devel mailing list, such as: - <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001231.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001231.html</a> - Versioning <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001232.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001232.html</a> - Internal meta data cleanup <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001233.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001233.html</a> - Assertions <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001235.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001235.html</a> - Capabilities <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001237.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001237.html</a> </div><div id="release-notes"> - New snap format <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001239.html">https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/snappy-devel/2015-November/001239.html</a> </div><div id="release-notes"> Happy snapcrafting, - Sergio and the team</div></div>