Ubuntu and Snappy community, it’s time to celebrate!
After another intense week and a long Saturday focused on observing and fine tuning the user experience, the development team is proud to announce that Snappy 2.0 has been tagged. As has been recently announced, this release of Snappy Ubuntu Core will be available inside Ubuntu proper, extending it with new capabilities in a seamless manner.
This is an important moment for the project, as it materializes most of the agreements that were made over the past year, and does so with the promise of stability. So you may trust that the important external APIs of the project (filesystem layout, snap format, REST API, etc) will not change from now on.
The features that went into this release are way too rich for me to describe in this post, but you may expect us to be covering the many interesting aspects of Snappy 2.0 in the coming weeks. Rich interfaces between snaps that control security and confinement, comprehensive observation and control of system changes, completion and undoing of partial system changes across restarts/reboots/crashes, macaroon-based authentication for local access and store access, preliminary development mode, a polished filesystem layout and CLI experience, modern sequencing of revisions, and so forth.
Still, the most remarkable aspect about this release to me is that it is a solid foundation. This release exports APIs and is constructed in a way to be proud of, and together with this team I will be delighted to spend the foreseeable future building a platform the world has never seen.
As a final note, I can’t thank the development team enough for the dedication they have put into the project over the past year, and specially over these last two weeks. You were the make it or break it of this project, and you made it.
Thank you!