Canonical has created a new notification mechanism for Snap developers to notify them when new Ubuntu security updates that affect their Snaps published in the Snap Store are available.
If you’re a Snap app developer, you’ll be glad to know that Canonical will now send you alerts via email everytime new Ubuntu Security Notices (USNs) are published and contain details about security fixes for the staged packages in the Snap. This will work only if you use “stage-packages” in Snap’s snapcraft.yaml configuration file.
“Once a day, the service examines snaps that have manifest.yaml files for their currently published channels/tracks and checks whether USNs have been issued for the versions of the staged packages in the snap. If any snap revisions are affected, the tool will generate a report to send via email,” said Canonical in <a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/2018/05/02/introducing-developer-notifications-for-snap-security-upd… (read more)
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