Today, June 9, 2016, Canonical has pushed a new major milestone of the Snapcraft tool for the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) operating system, version 2.10, which users can use to package their apps as Snaps.
Snapcraft 2.10 appears to be a major release, though we can’t help but notice that the latest version uploaded a few hours ago to the Ubuntu 16.04 LTS stable repositories is version 2.10.1. The biggest new features of Snapcraft 2.10 are support for macaroons for authentication for a better developer experience.
The macaroons support for authentication will allow the Snapcraft devs to create additional features for communicating with the store APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Moreover, it looks like there’s now support for zip files, which will be used as a source type for plugins.
Also new in Snapcraft 2.10 is the ability for the “snapcraft init” command to generate a valid template that newcomers can use to start packaging their apps as Snaps. Mor… (read more)
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