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@mvo5 mvo5 released this 29 Mar 09:50
· 2537 commits to master since this release
2.59.1

New in snapd 2.59.1:

  • Add udev rules from steam-devices to steam-support interface
  • Bugfixes for layout path checking, dm_crypt permissions,
    mount-control interface parameter checking, kernel commandline
    parsing, docker-support, refresh-app-awareness

For completeness the changes for 2.59 are also included. This
version had a bug in the refresh code so it was never released
beyond the beta version.

New in snapd 2.59:

  • Support setting extra kernel command line parameters via snap
    configuration and under a gadget allow-list
  • Support for Full-Disk-Encryption using ICE
  • Support for arbitrary home dir locations via snap configuration
  • New nvidia-drivers-support interface
  • Support for udisks2 snap
  • Pre-download of snaps ready for refresh and automatic refresh of the
    snap when all apps are closed
  • New microovn interface
  • Support uboot with CONFIG_SYS_REDUNDAND_ENV=n
  • Make "snap-preseed --reset" re-exec when needed
  • Update the fwupd interface to support fully confined fwupd
  • The memory,cpu,thread quota options are no longer experimental
  • Support debugging snap client requests via the SNAPD_CLIENT_DEBUG_HTTP
    environment variable
  • Support ssh listen-address via snap configuration
  • Support for quotas on single services
  • prepare-image now takes into account snapd versions going into the image,
    including in the kernel initrd, to fetch supported assertion formats