| Changelog |
* Mon Mar 10 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.3
- FDE: LP: #2101834 snapd 2.68+ and snap-bootstrap <2.68 fallback to
old keyring path
- Fix Plucky snapd deb build issue related to /var/lib/snapd/void
permissions
- Fix snapd deb build complaint about ifneq with extra bracket
* Thu Feb 27 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.2
- FDE: use boot mode for FDE hooks
- FDE: add snap-bootstrap compatibility check to prevent image
creation with incompatible snapd and kernel snap
- FDE: add argon2 out-of-process KDF support
- FDE: have separate mutex for the sections writing a fresh modeenv
- FDE: LP: #2099709 update secboot to e07f4ae48e98
- Confdb: support pruning ephemeral data and process alternative
types in order
- core-initrd: look at env to mount directly to /sysroot
- core-initrd: prepare for Plucky build and split out 24.10
(Oracular)
- Fix missing primed packages in snapd snap manifest
- Interfaces: posix-mq | fix incorrect clobbering of global variable
and make interface more precise
- Interfaces: opengl | add more kernel fusion driver files
* Mon Feb 24 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.1
- Fix snap-confine type specifier type mismatch on armhf
* Thu Feb 13 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68
- FDE: add support for new and more extensible key format that is
unified between TPM and FDE hook
- FDE: add support for adding passphrases during installation
- FDE: update secboot to 30317622bbbc
- Snap components: make kernel components available on firstboot
after either initramfs or ephemeral rootfs style install
- Snap components: mount drivers tree from initramfs so kernel
modules are available in early boot stages
- Snap components: support remodeling to models that contain
components
- Snap components: support offline remodeling to models that contain
components
- Snap components: support creating new recovery systems with
components
- Snap components: support downloading components with 'snap
download' command
- Snap components: support sideloading asserted components
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): improve version checks and
handling of listener notification protocol for communication with
kernel AppArmor
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): make prompt replies idempotent,
and have at most one rule for any given path pattern, with
potentially mixed outcomes and lifespans
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): timeout unresolved prompts after
a period of client inactivity
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): return an error if a patch
request to the API would result in a rule without any permissions
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): warn if there is no prompting
client present but prompting is enabled, or if a prompting-related
error occurs during snapd startup
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): do not log error when converting
empty permissions to AppArmor permissions
- Confdb(experimental): rename registries to confdbs (including API
/v2/registries => /v2/confdb)
- Confdb(experimental): support marking confdb schemas as ephemeral
- Confdb(experimental): add confdb-control assertion and feature
flag
- Refresh App Awareness(experimental): LP: #2089195 prevent
possibility of incorrect notification that snap will quit and
update
- Confidential VMs: snap-bootstrap support for loading partition
information from a manifest file for cloudimg-rootfs mode
- Confidential VMs: snap-bootstrap support for setting up cloudimg-
rootfs as an overlayfs with integrity protection
- dm-verity for essential snaps: add support for snap-integrity
assertion
- Interfaces: modify AppArmor template to allow owner read on
@{PROC}/@{pid}/fdinfo/*
- Interfaces: LP: #2072987 modify AppArmor template to allow using
setpriv to run daemon as non-root user
- Interfaces: add configfiles backend that ensures the state of
configuration files in the filesystem
- Interfaces: add ldconfig backend that exposes libraries coming
from snaps to either the rootfs or to other snaps
- Interfaces: LP: #1712808 LP: 1865503 disable udev backend when
inside a container
- Interfaces: add auditd-support interface that grants audit_control
capability and required paths for auditd to function
- Interfaces: add checkbox-support interface that allows
unrestricted access to all devices
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow access to dell bios recovery
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow access to shim and fallback shim
- Interfaces: mount-control | add mount option validator to detect
mount option conflicts early
- Interfaces: cpu-control | add read access to /sys/kernel/irq/
- Interfaces: locale-control | changed to be implicit on Ubuntu Core
Desktop
- Interfaces: microstack-support | support for utilizing of AMD SEV
capabilities
- Interfaces: u2f | added missing OneSpan device product IDs
- Interfaces: auditd-support | grant seccomp setpriority
- Interfaces: opengl interface | enable parsing of nvidia driver
information files
- Allow mksquashfs 'xattrs' when packing snap types os, core, base
and snapd as part of work to support non-root snap-confine
- Upstream/downstream packaging changes and build updates
- Improve error logs for malformed desktop files to also show which
desktop file is at fault
- Provide more precise error message when overriding channels with
grade during seed creation
- Expose 'snap prepare-image' validation parameter
- Add snap-seccomp 'dump' command that dumps the filter rules from a
compiled profile
- Add fallback release info location /etc/initrd-release
- Added core-initrd to snapd repo and fixed issues with ubuntu-core-
initramfs deb builds
- Remove stale robust-mount-namespace-updates experimental feature
flag
- Remove snapd-snap experimental feature (rejected) and it's feature
flag
- Changed snap-bootstrap to mount base directly on /sysroot
- Mount ubuntu-seed mounted as no-{suid,exec,dev}
- Mapping volumes to disks: add support for volume-assignments in
gadget
- Fix silently broken binaries produced by distro patchelf 0.14.3 by
using locally build patchelf 0.18
- Fix mismatch between listed refresh candidates and actual refresh
due to outdated validation sets
- Fix 'snap get' to produce compact listing for tty
- Fix missing store-url by keeping it as part of auxiliary store
info
- Fix snap-confine attempting to retrieve device cgroup setup inside
container where it is not available
- Fix 'snap set' and 'snap get' panic on empty strings with early
error checking
- Fix logger debug entries to show correct caller and file
information
- Fix issue preventing hybrid systems from being seeded on first
boot
- LP: #1966203 remove auto-import udev rules not required by deb
package to avoid unwanted syslog errors
- LP: #1886414 fix progress reporting when stdout is on a tty, but
stdin is not
* Wed Jan 22 2025 Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@canonical.com>
- The changelog date and author have been modified to maintain linearity.
- Drop 0001-data-selinux-remove-timedatex.patch - applied upstream.
- New upstream release 2.67
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): allow overlapping rules
- Registry view (experimental): Changes to registry data (from both
users and snaps) can be validated and saved by custodian snaps
- Registry view (experimental): Support 'snapctl get --pristine' to
read the registry data excluding staged transaction changes
- Registry view (experimental): Put registry commands behind
experimental feature flag
- Components: Make modules shipped/created by kernel-modules
components available right after reboot
- Components: Add tab completion for local component files
- Components: Allow installing snaps and components from local files
jointly on the CLI
- Components: Allow 'snapctl model' command for gadget and kernel
snaps
- Components: Add 'snap components' command
- Components: Bug fixes
- eMMC gadget updates (WIP): add syntax support in gadget.yaml for
eMMC schema
- Support for ephemeral recovery mode on hybrid systems
- Support for dm-verity options in snap-bootstrap
- Support for overlayfs options and allow empty what argument for
tmpfs
- Enable ubuntu-image to determine the size of the disk image to
create
- Expose 'snap debug' commands 'validate-seed' and 'seeding'
- Add debug API option to use dedicated snap socket /run/snapd-
snap.socket
- Hide experimental features that are no longer required
(accepted/rejected)
- Mount ubuntu-save partition with no{exec,dev,suid} at install, run
and factory-reset
- Improve memory controller support with cgroup v2
- Support ssh socket activation configurations (used by ubuntu
22.10+)
- Fix generation of AppArmor profile with incorrect revision during
multi snap refresh
- Fix refresh app awareness related deadlock edge case
- Fix not caching delta updated snap download
- Fix passing non root uid, guid to initial tmpfs mount
- Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending
- Fix reloading of service activation units to avoid systemd errors
- Fix snapd snap FIPS build on Launchpad to use Advantage Pro FIPS
updates PPA
- Make killing of snap apps best effort to avoid possibility of
malicious failure loop
- Alleviate impact of auto-refresh failure loop with progressive
delay
- Dropped timedatex in selinux-policy to avoid runtime issue
- Fix missing syscalls in seccomp profile
- Modify AppArmor template to allow using SNAP_REEXEC on arch
systems
- Modify AppArmor template to allow using vim.tiny (available in
base snaps)
- Modify AppArmor template to add read-access to debian_version
- Modify AppArmor template to allow owner to read
@{PROC}/@{pid}/sessionid
- {common,personal,system}-files interface: prohibit trailing @ in
filepaths
- {desktop,shutdown,system-observe,upower-observe} interface:
improve for Ubuntu Core Desktop
- custom-device interface: allow @ in custom-device filepaths
- desktop interface: improve launch entry and systray integration
with session
- desktop-legacy interface: allow DBus access to
com.canonical.dbusmenu
- fwupd interface: allow access to nvmem for thunderbolt plugin
- mpris interface: add plasmashell as label
- mount-control interface: add support for nfs mounts
- network-{control,manager} interface: add missing dbus link rules
- network-manager-observe interface: add getDevices methods
- opengl interface: add Kernel Fusion Driver access to opengl
- screen-inhibit-control interface: improve screen inhibit control
for use on core
- udisks2 interface: allow ping of the UDisks2 service
- u2f-devices interface: add Nitrokey Passkey
* Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.66.1-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jan 15 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.67.1
- Fix apparmor permissions to allow snaps access to kernel modules
and firmware on UC24, which also fixes the kernel-modules-control
interface on UC24
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): disallow /./ and /../ in path
patterns
- Fix 'snap run' getent based user lookup in case of bad PATH
- Fix snapd using the incorrect AppArmor version during undo of an
refresh for regenerating snap profiles
- Add new syscalls to base templates
- hardware-observe interface: allow riscv_hwprobe syscall
- mount-observe interface: allow listmount and statmount syscalls
* Tue Dec 03 2024 Orion Poplawski <orion@nwra.com>
- Drop RestartMode from snapd.service on EL8 (rhbz#2315759)
* Fri Nov 29 2024 Zygmunt Krynicki <me@zygoon.pl>
- Re-cherry pick fix for SELinux timedatex problem from upstream
as it was not released in 2.66.1, sorry.
* Wed Nov 20 2024 Zygmunt Krynicki <me@zygoon.pl>
- Drop only patch, applied upstream.
* Fri Oct 25 2024 Zygmunt Krynicki <me@zygoon.pl>
- Cherry pick fix for SELinux timedatex problem from upstream
* Fri Oct 11 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.66.1
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): Fix kernel prompting support
check
- Allow kernel snaps to have content slots
- Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending
* Fri Oct 04 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.66
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): expand kernel support checks
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): consolidate error messages and
add error kinds
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): grant /v2/snaps/{name} via
snap-interfaces-requests-control
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add checks for duplicate
pattern variants
- Registry views (experimental): add handlers that commit (and
cleanup) registry transactions
- Registry views (experimental): add a snapctl fail command for
rejecting registry transactions
- Registry views (experimental): allow custodian snaps to implement
registry hooks that modify and save registry data
- Registry views (experimental): run view-changed hooks only for
snaps plugging views affected by modified paths
- Registry views (experimental): make registry transactions
serialisable
- Snap components: handle refreshing components to revisions that
have been on the system before
- Snap components: enable creating Ubuntu Core images that contain
components
- Snap components: handle refreshing components independently of
snaps
- Snap components: handle removing components when refreshing a snap
that no longer defines them
- Snap components: extend snapd Ubuntu Core installation API to
allow for picking optional snaps and components to install
- Snap components: extend kernel.yaml with "dynamic-modules",
allowing kernel to define a location for kmods from component
hooks
- Snap components: renamed component type "test" to "standard"
- Desktop IDs: support installing desktop files with custom names
based on desktop-file-ids desktop interface plug attr
- Auto-install snapd on classic systems as prerequisite for any non-
essential snap install
- Support loading AppArmor profiles on WSL2 with non-default kernel
and securityfs mounted
- Debian/Fedora packaging updates
- Add snap debug command for investigating execution aspects of the
snap toolchain
- Improve snap pack error for easier parsing
- Add support for user services when refreshing snaps
- Add snap remove --terminate flag for terminating running snap
processes
- Support building FIPS complaint snapd deb and snap
- Fix to not use nss when looking up for users/groups from snapd
snap
- Fix ordering in which layout changes are saved
- Patch snapd snap dynamic linker to ignore LD_LIBRARY_PATH and
related variables
- Fix libexec dir for openSUSE Slowroll
- Fix handling of the shared snap directory for parallel installs
- Allow writing to /run/systemd/journal/dev-log by default
- Avoid state lock during snap removal to avoid delaying other snapd
operations
- Add nomad-support interface to enable running Hashicorp Nomad
- Add intel-qat interface
- u2f-devices interface: add u2f trustkey t120 product id and fx
series fido u2f devices
- desktop interface: improve integration with xdg-desktop-portal
- desktop interface: add desktop-file-ids plug attr to desktop
interface
- unity7 interface: support desktop-file-ids in desktop files rule
generation
- desktop-legacy interface: support desktop-file-ids in desktop
files rule generation
- desktop-legacy interface: grant access to gcin socket location
- login-session-observe interface: allow introspection
- custom-device interface: allow to explicitly identify matching
device in udev tagging block
- system-packages-doc interface: allow reading /usr/share/javascript
- modem-manager interface: add new format of WWAN ports
- pcscd interface: allow pcscd to read opensc.conf
- cpu-control interface: add IRQ affinity control to cpu_control
- opengl interface: add support for cuda workloads on Tegra iGPU in
opengl interface
* Thu Sep 12 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.65.3
- Fix missing aux info from store on snap setup
* Fri Sep 06 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.65.2
- Bump squashfuse from version 0.5.0 to 0.5.2 (used in snapd deb
only)
* Sat Aug 24 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.65.1
- Support building snapd using base Core22 (Snapcraft 8.x)
- FIPS: support building FIPS complaint snapd variant that switches
to FIPS mode when the system boots with FIPS enabled
- AppArmor: update to latest 4.0.2 release
- AppArmor: enable using ABI 4.0 from host parser
- AppArmor: fix parser lookup
- AppArmor: support AppArmor snippet priorities
- AppArmor: allow reading cgroup memory.max file
- AppArmor: allow using snap-exec coming from the snapd snap when
starting a confined process with jailmode
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add checks for prompting
support, include prompting status in system key, and restart snapd
if prompting flag changes
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): include prompt prefix in
AppArmor rules if prompting is supported and enabled
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add common types, constraints,
and mappings from AppArmor permissions to abstract permissions
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern parsing and
matching
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern precedence
based on specificity
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add packages to manage
outstanding request prompts and rules
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add prompting API and notice
types, which require snap-interfaces-requests-control interface
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): feature flag can only be
enabled if prompting is supported, handler service connected, and
the service can be started
- Registry views (experimental): rename from aspects to registries
- Registry views (experimental): support reading registry views and
setting/unsetting registry data using snapctl
- Registry views (experimental): fetch and refresh registry
assertions as needed
- Registry views (experimental): restrict view paths from using a
number as first character and view names to storage path style
patterns
- Snap components: support installing snaps and components from
files at the same time (no REST API/CLI)
- Snap components: support downloading components related assertions
from the store
- Snap components: support installing components from the store
- Snap components: support removing components individually and
during snap removal
- Snap components: support kernel modules as components
- Snap components: support for component install, pre-refresh and
post-refresh hooks
- Snap components: initial support for building systems that contain
components
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): add data field for
/v2/changes REST API to allow associating each task with affected
snaps
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): use the app name from
.desktop file in notifications
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): give snap-refresh-observe
interface access to /v2/snaps/{name} endpoint
- Improve snap-confine compatibility with nvidia drivers
- Allow re-exec when SNAP_REEXEC is set for unlisted distros to
simplify testing
- Allow mixing revision and channel on snap install
- Generate GNU build ID for Go binaries
- Add missing etelpmoc.sh for shell completion
- Do not attempt to run snapd on classic when re-exec is disabled
- Packaging/build maintenance for Debian sid, Fedora, Arch, openSuse
- Add snap debug API command to enable running raw queries
- Enable snap-confine snap mount directory detection
- Replace global seccomp filter with deny rules in standard seccomp
template
- Remove support for Ubuntu Core Launcher (superseded by snap-
confine)
- Support creating pending serial bound users after serial assertion
becomes available
- Support disabling cloud-init using kernel command-line
- In hybrid systems, apps can refresh without waiting for restarts
required by essential snaps
- Ship snap-debug-info.sh script used for system diagnostics
- Improve error messages when attempting to run non-existent snap
- Switch to -u UID:GID for strace-static
- Support enabling snapd logging with snap set system
debug.snapd.{log,log-level}
- Add options system.coredump.enable and system.coredump.maxuse to
support using systemd-coredump on Ubuntu Core
- Provide documentation URL for 'snap interface '
- Fix snapd riscv64 build
- Fix restarting activated services instead of their activator units
(i.e. sockets, timers)
- Fix potential unexpected auto-refresh of snap on managed schedule
- Fix potential segfault by guarding against kernel command-line
changes on classic system
- Fix proxy entries in /etc/environment with missing newline that
caused later manual entries to not be usable
- Fix offline remodelling by ignoring prerequisites that will
otherwise be downloaded from store
- Fix devmode seccomp deny regression that caused spamming the log
instead of actual denies
- Fix snap lock leak during refresh
- Fix not re-pinning validation sets that were already pinned when
enforcing new validation sets
- Fix handling of unexpected snapd runtime failure
- Fix /v2/notices REST API skipping notices with duplicate
timestamps
- Fix comparing systemd versions that may contain pre-release
suffixes
- Fix udev potentially starting before snap-device-helper is made
available
- Fix race in snap seed metadata loading
- Fix treating cloud-init exit status 2 as error
- Fix to prevent sending refresh complete notification if snap snap-
refresh-observe interface is connected
- Fix to queue snapctl service commands if run from the default-
configure hook to ensure they get up-to-date config values
- Fix stop service failure when the service is not actually running
anymore
- Fix parsing /proc/PID/mounts with spaces
- Add registry interface that provides snaps access to a particular
registry view
- Add snap-interfaces-requests-control interface to enable prompting
client snaps
- steam-support interface: remove all AppArmor and seccomp
restrictions to improve user experience
- opengl interface: improve compatibility with nvidia drivers
- home interface: autoconnect home on Ubuntu Core Desktop
- serial-port interface: support RPMsg tty
- display-control interface: allow changing LVDS backlight power and
brightness
- power-control interface: support for battery charging thesholds,
type/status and AC type/status
- cpu-control interface: allow CPU C-state control
- raw-usb interface: support RPi5 and Thinkpad x13s
- custom-device interface: allow device file locking
- lxd-support interface: allow LXD to self-manage its own cgroup
- network-manager interface: support MPTCP sockets
- network-control interface: allow plug/slot access to gnutls config
and systemd resolved cache flushing via D-Bus
- network-control interface: allow wpa_supplicant dbus api
- gpio-control interface: support gpiochip* devices
- polkit interface: fix "rw" mount option check
- u2f-devices interface: enable additional security keys
- desktop interface: enable kde theming support
* Fri Aug 23 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.65
- Support building snapd using base Core22 (Snapcraft 8.x)
- FIPS: support building FIPS complaint snapd variant that switches
to FIPS mode when the system boots with FIPS enabled
- AppArmor: update to latest 4.0.2 release
- AppArmor: enable using ABI 4.0 from host parser
- AppArmor: fix parser lookup
- AppArmor: support AppArmor snippet priorities
- AppArmor: allow reading cgroup memory.max file
- AppArmor: allow using snap-exec coming from the snapd snap when
starting a confined process with jailmode
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add checks for prompting
support, include prompting status in system key, and restart snapd
if prompting flag changes
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): include prompt prefix in
AppArmor rules if prompting is supported and enabled
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add common types, constraints,
and mappings from AppArmor permissions to abstract permissions
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern parsing and
matching
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add path pattern precedence
based on specificity
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add packages to manage
outstanding request prompts and rules
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add prompting API and notice
types, which require snap-interfaces-requests-control interface
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): feature flag can only be
enabled if prompting is supported, handler service connected, and
the service can be started
- Registry views (experimental): rename from aspects to registries
- Registry views (experimental): support reading registry views and
setting/unsetting registry data using snapctl
- Registry views (experimental): fetch and refresh registry
assertions as needed
- Registry views (experimental): restrict view paths from using a
number as first character and view names to storage path style
patterns
- Snap components: support installing snaps and components from
files at the same time (no REST API/CLI)
- Snap components: support downloading components related assertions
from the store
- Snap components: support installing components from the store
- Snap components: support removing components individually and
during snap removal
- Snap components: support kernel modules as components
- Snap components: support for component install, pre-refresh and
post-refresh hooks
- Snap components: initial support for building systems that contain
components
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): add data field for
/v2/changes REST API to allow associating each task with affected
snaps
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): use the app name from
.desktop file in notifications
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): give snap-refresh-observe
interface access to /v2/snaps/{name} endpoint
- Improve snap-confine compatibility with nvidia drivers
- Allow re-exec when SNAP_REEXEC is set for unlisted distros to
simplify testing
- Allow mixing revision and channel on snap install
- Generate GNU build ID for Go binaries
- Add missing etelpmoc.sh for shell completion
- Do not attempt to run snapd on classic when re-exec is disabled
- Packaging/build maintenance for Debian sid, Fedora, Arch, openSuse
- Add snap debug API command to enable running raw queries
- Enable snap-confine snap mount directory detection
- Replace global seccomp filter with deny rules in standard seccomp
template
- Remove support for Ubuntu Core Launcher (superseded by snap-
confine)
- Support creating pending serial bound users after serial assertion
becomes available
- Support disabling cloud-init using kernel command-line
- In hybrid systems, apps can refresh without waiting for restarts
required by essential snaps
- Ship snap-debug-info.sh script used for system diagnostics
- Improve error messages when attempting to run non-existent snap
- Switch to -u UID:GID for strace-static
- Support enabling snapd logging with snap set system
debug.snapd.{log,log-level}
- Add options system.coredump.enable and system.coredump.maxuse to
support using systemd-coredump on Ubuntu Core
- Provide documentation URL for 'snap interface '
- Fix restarting activated services instead of their activator units
(i.e. sockets, timers)
- Fix potential unexpected auto-refresh of snap on managed schedule
- Fix potential segfault by guarding against kernel command-line
changes on classic system
- Fix proxy entries in /etc/environment with missing newline that
caused later manual entries to not be usable
- Fix offline remodelling by ignoring prerequisites that will
otherwise be downloaded from store
- Fix devmode seccomp deny regression that caused spamming the log
instead of actual denies
- Fix snap lock leak during refresh
- Fix not re-pinning validation sets that were already pinned when
enforcing new validation sets
- Fix handling of unexpected snapd runtime failure
- Fix /v2/notices REST API skipping notices with duplicate
timestamps
- Fix comparing systemd versions that may contain pre-release
suffixes
- Fix udev potentially starting before snap-device-helper is made
available
- Fix race in snap seed metadata loading
- Fix treating cloud-init exit status 2 as error
- Fix to prevent sending refresh complete notification if snap snap-
refresh-observe interface is connected
- Fix to queue snapctl service commands if run from the default-
configure hook to ensure they get up-to-date config values
- Fix stop service failure when the service is not actually running
anymore
- Fix parsing /proc/PID/mounts with spaces
- Add registry interface that provides snaps access to a particular
registry view
- Add snap-interfaces-requests-control interface to enable prompting
client snaps
- steam-support interface: remove all AppArmor and seccomp
restrictions to improve user experience
- opengl interface: improve compatibility with nvidia drivers
- home interface: autoconnect home on Ubuntu Core Desktop
- serial-port interface: support RPMsg tty
- display-control interface: allow changing LVDS backlight power and
brightness
- power-control interface: support for battery charging thesholds,
type/status and AC type/status
- cpu-control interface: allow CPU C-state control
- raw-usb interface: support RPi5 and Thinkpad x13s
- custom-device interface: allow device file locking
- lxd-support interface: allow LXD to self-manage its own cgroup
- network-manager interface: support MPTCP sockets
- network-control interface: allow plug/slot access to gnutls config
and systemd resolved cache flushing via D-Bus
- network-control interface: allow wpa_supplicant dbus api
- gpio-control interface: support gpiochip* devices
- polkit interface: fix "rw" mount option check
- u2f-devices interface: enable additional security keys
- desktop interface: enable kde theming support
* Mon Jul 29 2024 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> - 2.63-3
- convert license to SPDX
* Fri Jul 26 2024 Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@redhat.com> - 2.63-2
- convert license to SPDX
* Wed Jul 24 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.64
- Support building snapd using base Core22 (Snapcraft 8.x)
- FIPS: support building FIPS complaint snapd variant that switches
to FIPS mode when the system boots with FIPS enabled
- AppArmor: update to AppArmor 4.0.1
- AppArmor: support AppArmor snippet priorities
- AppArmor prompting: add checks for prompting support, include
prompting status in system key, and restart snapd if prompting
flag changes
- AppArmor prompting: include prompt prefix in AppArmor rules if
prompting is supported and enabled
- AppArmor prompting: add common types, constraints, and mappings
from AppArmor permissions to abstract permissions
- AppArmor prompting: add path pattern parsing and matching
- Registry views (experimental): rename from aspects to registries
- Registry views (experimental): support reading registry views
using snapctl
- Registry views (experimental): restrict view paths from using a
number as first character and view names to storage path style
patterns
- Snap components: support installing snaps and components from
files at the same time (no REST API/CLI)
- Snap components: support downloading components related assertions
from the store
- Snap components: support installing components from the store (no
REST API/CLI)
- Snap components: support removing components (REST API, no CLI)
- Snap components: started support for component hooks
- Snap components: support kernel modules as components
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): add data field for
/v2/changes REST API to allow associating each task with affected
snaps
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): use the app name from
.desktop file in notifications
- Refresh app awareness (experimental): give snap-refresh-observe
interface access to /v2/snaps/{name} endpoint
- Allow re-exec when SNAP_REEXEC is set for unlisted distros to
simplify testing
- Generate GNU build ID for Go binaries
- Add missing etelpmoc.sh for shell completion
- Do not attempt to run snapd on classic when re-exec is disabled
- Packaging/build maintenance for Debian sid, Fedora, Arch, openSuse
- Add snap debug api command to enable running raw queries
- Enable snap-confine snap mount directory detection
- Replace global seccomp filter with deny rules in standard seccomp
template
- Remove support for Ubuntu Core Launcher (superseded by snap-
confine)
- Support creating pending serial bound users after serial assertion
becomes available
- Support disabling cloud-init using kernel command-line
- In hybrid systems, apps can refresh without waiting for restarts
required by essential snaps
- Ship snap-debug-info.sh script used for system diagnostics
- Improve error messages when attempting to run non-existent snap
- Switch to -u UID:GID for strace-static
- Support enabling snapd logging with snap set system
debug.snapd.{log,log-level}
- Fix restarting activated services instead of their activator units
(i.e. sockets, timers)
- Fix potential unexpected auto-refresh of snap on managed schedule
- Fix potential segfault by guarding against kernel command-line
changes on classic system
- Fix proxy entries in /etc/environment with missing newline that
caused later manual entries to not be usable
- Fix offline remodelling by ignoring prerequisites that will
otherwise be downloaded from store
- Fix devmode seccomp deny regression that caused spamming the log
instead of actual denies
- Fix snap lock leak during refresh
- Fix not re-pinning validation sets that were already pinned when
enforcing new validation sets
- Fix handling of unexpected snapd runtime failure
- Fix /v2/notices REST API skipping notices with duplicate
timestamps
- Fix comparing systemd versions that may contain pre-release
suffixes
- Fix udev potentially starting before snap-device-helper is made
available
- Fix race in snap seed metadata loading
- Fix treating cloud-init exit status 2 as error
- Fix to prevent sending refresh complete notification if snap snap-
refresh-observe interface is connected
- Fix to queue snapctl service commands if run from the default-
configure hook to ensure they get up-to-date config values
- Fix stop service failure when the service is not actually running
anymore
- Add registry interface that provides snaps access to a particular
registry view
- steam-support interface: relaxed AppArmor and seccomp restrictions
to improve user experience
- home interface: autoconnect home on Ubuntu Core Desktop
- serial-port interface: support RPMsg tty
- display-control interface: allow changing LVDS backlight power and
brightness
- power-control interface: support for battery charging thesholds,
type/status and AC type/status
- cpu-control interface: allow CPU C-state control
- raw-usb interface: support RPi5 and Thinkpad x13s
- custom-device interface: allow device file locking
- lxd-support interface: allow LXD to self-manage its own cgroup
- network-manager interface: support MPTCP sockets
- network-control interface: allow plug/slot access to gnutls config
and systemd resolved cache flushing via D-Bus
* Sat Jul 20 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.63-1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_41_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Apr 24 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.63
- Support for snap services to show the current status of user
services (experimental)
- Refresh app awareness: record snap-run-inhibit notice when
starting app from snap that is busy with refresh (experimental)
- Refresh app awareness: use warnings as fallback for desktop
notifications (experimental)
- Aspect based configuration: make request fields in the aspect-
bundle's rules optional (experimental)
- Aspect based configuration: make map keys conform to the same
format as path sub-keys (experimental)
- Aspect based configuration: make unset and set behaviour similar
to configuration options (experimental)
- Aspect based configuration: limit nesting level for setting value
(experimental)
- Components: use symlinks to point active snap component revisions
- Components: add model assertion support for components
- Components: fix to ensure local component installation always gets
a new revision number
- Add basic support for a CIFS remote filesystem-based home
directory
- Add support for AppArmor profile kill mode to avoid snap-confine
error
- Allow more than one interface to grant access to the same API
endpoint or notice type
- Allow all snapd service's control group processes to send systemd
notifications to prevent warnings flooding the log
- Enable not preseeded single boot install
- Update secboot to handle new sbatlevel
- Fix to not use cgroup for non-strict confined snaps (devmode,
classic)
- Fix two race conditions relating to freedesktop notifications
- Fix missing tunables in snap-update-ns AppArmor template
- Fix rejection of snapd snap udev command line by older host snap-
device-helper
- Rework seccomp allow/deny list
- Clean up files removed by gadgets
- Remove non-viable boot chains to avoid secboot failure
- posix_mq interface: add support for missing time64 mqueue syscalls
mq_timedreceive_time64 and mq_timedsend_time64
- password-manager-service interface: allow kwalletd version 6
- kubernetes-support interface: allow SOCK_SEQPACKET sockets
- system-observe interface: allow listing systemd units and their
properties
- opengl interface: enable use of nvidia container toolkit CDI
config generation
* Thu Mar 21 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.62
- Aspects based configuration schema support (experimental)
- Refresh app awareness support for UI (experimental)
- Support for user daemons by introducing new control switches
--user/--system/--users for service start/stop/restart
(experimental)
- Add AppArmor prompting experimental flag (feature currently
unsupported)
- Installation of local snap components of type test
- Packaging of components with snap pack
- Expose experimental features supported/enabled in snapd REST API
endpoint /v2/system-info
- Support creating and removing recovery systems for use by factory
reset
- Enable API route for creating and removing recovery systems using
/v2/systems with action create and /v2/systems/{label} with action
remove
- Lift requirements for fde-setup hook for single boot install
- Enable single reboot gadget update for UC20+
- Allow core to be removed on classic systems
- Support for remodeling on hybrid systems
- Install desktop files on Ubuntu Core and update after snapd
upgrade
- Upgrade sandbox features to account for cgroup v2 device filtering
- Support snaps to manage their own cgroups
- Add support for AppArmor 4.0 unconfined profile mode
- Add AppArmor based read access to /etc/default/keyboard
- Upgrade to squashfuse 0.5.0
- Support useradd utility to enable removing Perl dependency for
UC24+
- Support for recovery-chooser to use console-conf snap
- Add support for --uid/--gid using strace-static
- Add support for notices (from pebble) and expose via the snapd
REST API endpoints /v2/notices and /v2/notice
- Add polkit authentication for snapd REST API endpoints
/v2/snaps/{snap}/conf and /v2/apps
- Add refresh-inhibit field to snapd REST API endpoint /v2/snaps
- Add refresh-inhibited select query to REST API endpoint /v2/snaps
- Take into account validation sets during remodeling
- Improve offline remodeling to use installed revisions of snaps to
fulfill the remodel revision requirement
- Add rpi configuration option sdtv_mode
- When snapd snap is not installed, pin policy ABI to 4.0 or 3.0 if
present on host
- Fix gadget zero-sized disk mapping caused by not ignoring zero
sized storage traits
- Fix gadget install case where size of existing partition was not
correctly taken into account
- Fix trying to unmount early kernel mount if it does not exist
- Fix restarting mount units on snapd start
- Fix call to udev in preseed mode
- Fix to ensure always setting up the device cgroup for base bare
and core24+
- Fix not copying data from newly set homedirs on revision change
- Fix leaving behind empty snap home directories after snap is
removed (resulting in broken symlink)
- Fix to avoid using libzstd from host by adding to snapd snap
- Fix autorefresh to correctly handle forever refresh hold
- Fix username regex allowed for system-user assertion to not allow
'+'
- Fix incorrect application icon for notification after autorefresh
completion
- Fix to restart mount units when changed
- Fix to support AppArmor running under incus
- Fix case of snap-update-ns dropping synthetic mounts due to
failure to match desired mount dependencies
- Fix parsing of base snap version to enable pre-seeding of Ubuntu
Core Desktop
- Fix packaging and tests for various distributions
- Add remoteproc interface to allow developers to interact with
Remote Processor Framework which enables snaps to load firmware to
ARM Cortex microcontrollers
- Add kernel-control interface to enable controlling the kernel
firmware search path
- Add nfs-mount interface to allow mounting of NFS shares
- Add ros-opt-data interface to allow snaps to access the host
/opt/ros/ paths
- Add snap-refresh-observe interface that provides refresh-app-
awareness clients access to relevant snapd API endpoints
- steam-support interface: generalize Pressure Vessel root paths and
allow access to driver information, features and container
versions
- steam-support interface: make implicit on Ubuntu Core Desktop
- desktop interface: improved support for Ubuntu Core Desktop and
limit autoconnection to implicit slots
- cups-control interface: make autoconnect depend on presence of
cupsd on host to ensure it works on classic systems
- opengl interface: allow read access to /usr/share/nvidia
- personal-files interface: extend to support automatic creation of
missing parent directories in write paths
- network-control interface: allow creating /run/resolveconf
- network-setup-control and network-setup-observe interfaces: allow
busctl bind as required for systemd 254+
- libvirt interface: allow r/w access to /run/libvirt/libvirt-sock-
ro and read access to /var/lib/libvirt/dnsmasq/**
- fwupd interface: allow access to IMPI devices (including locking
of device nodes), sysfs attributes needed by amdgpu and the COD
capsule update directory
- uio interface: allow configuring UIO drivers from userspace
libraries
- serial-port interface: add support for NXP Layerscape SoC
- lxd-support interface: add attribute enable-unconfined-mode to
require LXD to opt-in to run unconfined
- block-devices interface: add support for ZFS volumes
- system-packages-doc interface: add support for reading jquery and
sphinx documentation
- system-packages-doc interface: workaround to prevent autoconnect
failure for snaps using base bare
- microceph-support interface: allow more types of block devices to
be added as an OSD
- mount-observe interface: allow read access to
/proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/mounts and proc/{pid}/task/{tid}/mountinfo
- polkit interface: changed to not be implicit on core because
installing policy files is not possible
- upower-observe interface: allow stats refresh
- gpg-public-keys interface: allow creating lock file for certain
gpg operations
- shutdown interface: allow access to SetRebootParameter method
- media-control interface: allow device file locking
- u2f-devices interface: support for Trustkey G310H, JaCarta U2F,
Kensington VeriMark Guard, RSA DS100, Google Titan v2
* Wed Mar 06 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.61.3
- Install systemd files in correct location for 24.04
* Fri Feb 16 2024 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.61.2
- Fix to enable plug/slot sanitization for prepare-image
- Fix panic when device-service.access=offline
- Support offline remodeling
- Allow offline update only remodels without serial
- Fail early when remodeling to old model revision
- Fix to enable plug/slot sanitization for validate-seed
- Allow removal of core snap on classic systems
- Fix network-control interface denial for file lock on /run/netns
- Add well-known core24 snap-id
- Fix remodel snap installation order
- Prevent remodeling from UC18+ to UC16
- Fix cups auto-connect on classic with cups snap installed
- u2f-devices interface support for GoTrust Idem Key with USB-C
- Fix to restore services after unlink failure
- Add libcudnn.so to Nvidia libraries
- Fix skipping base snap download due to false snapd downgrade
conflict
* Sun Feb 11 2024 Maxwell G <maxwell@gtmx.me> - 2.61.1-2
- Rebuild for golang 1.22.0
* Sat Jan 27 2024 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.61.1-1
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_40_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jan 18 2024 Zygmunt Krynicki <me@zygoon.pl> - 2.61.1-1
- Changelog resynchronization
* Wed Jan 17 2024 Zygmunt Krynicki <me@zygoon.pl> - 2.58.3-3
- Require xdelta on Fedora or EPEL >= 9 (for delta updates)
* Fri Nov 24 2023 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.61.1
- Stop requiring default provider snaps on image building and first
boot if alternative providers are included and available
- Fix auth.json access for login as non-root group ID
- Fix incorrect remodelling conflict when changing track to older
snapd version
- Improved check-rerefresh message
- Fix UC16/18 kernel/gadget update failure due volume mismatch with
installed disk
- Stop auto-import of assertions during install modes
- Desktop interface exposes GetIdletime
- Polkit interface support for new polkit versions
- Fix not applying snapd snap changes in tracked channel when remodelling
* Fri Oct 13 2023 Philip Meulengracht <philip.meulengracht@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.61
- Fix control of activated services in 'snap start' and 'snap stop'
- Correctly reflect activated services in 'snap services'
- Disabled services are no longer enabled again when snap is
refreshed
- interfaces/builtin: added support for Token2 U2F keys
- interfaces/u2f-devices: add Swissbit iShield Key
- interfaces/builtin: update gpio apparmor to match pattern that
contains multiple subdirectories under /sys/devices/platform
- interfaces: add a polkit-agent interface
- interfaces: add pcscd interface
- Kernel command-line can now be edited in the gadget.yaml
- Only track validation-sets in run-mode, fixes validation-set
issues on first boot.
- Added support for using store.access to disable access to snap
store
- Support for fat16 partition in gadget
- Pre-seed authority delegation is now possible
- Support new system-user name daemon
- Several bug fixes and improvements around remodelling
- Offline remodelling support
* Fri Sep 15 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.60.4
- i/b/qualcomm_ipc_router.go: switch to plug/slot and add socket
permission
- interfaces/builtin: fix custom-device udev KERNEL values
- overlord: allow the firmware-updater snap to install user daemons
- interfaces: allow loopback as a block-device
* Fri Aug 25 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.60.3
- i/b/shared-memory: handle "private" plug attribute in shared-
memory interface correctly
- i/apparmor: support for home.d tunables from /etc/
* Fri Aug 04 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.60.2
- i/builtin: allow directories in private /dev/shm
- i/builtin: add read access to /proc/task/schedstat in system-
observe
- snap-bootstrap: print version information at startup
- go.mod: update gopkg.in/yaml.v3 to v3.0.1 to fix CVE-2022-28948
- snap, store: filter out invalid snap edited links from store info
and persisted state
- o/configcore: write netplan defaults to 00-snapd-config on seeding
- snapcraft.yaml: pull in apparmor_parser optimization patches from
https://gitlab.com/apparmor/apparmor/-/merge_requests/711
- snap-confine: fix missing \0 after readlink
- cmd/snap: hide append-integrity-data
- interfaces/opengl: add support for ARM Mali
* Sat Jul 22 2023 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.58.3-2
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_39_Mass_Rebuild
* Tue Jul 04 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.60.1
- install: fallback to lazy unmount() in writeFilesystemContent
- data: include "modprobe.d" and "modules-load.d" in preseeded blob
- gadget: fix install test on armhf
- interfaces: fix typo in network_manager_observe
- sandbox/apparmor: don't let vendored apparmor conflict with system
- gadget/update: set parts in laid out data from the ones matched
- many: move SnapConfineAppArmorDir from dirs to sandbox/apparmor
- many: stop using `-O no-expr-simplify` in apparmor_parser
- go.mod: update secboot to latest uc22 branch
* Thu Jun 15 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.60
- Support for dynamic snapshot data exclusions
- Apparmor userspace is vendored inside the snapd snap
- Added a default-configure hook that exposes gadget default
configuration options to snaps during first install before
services are started
- Allow install from initrd to speed up the initial installation
for systems that do not have a install-device hook
- New `snap sign --chain` flag that appends the account and
account-key assertions
- Support validation-sets in the model assertion
- Support new "min-size" field in gadget.yaml
- New interface: "userns"
* Sat May 27 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.59.5
- Explicitly disallow the use of ioctl + TIOCLINUX
This fixes CVE-2023-1523.
* Fri May 12 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.59.4
- Retry when looking for disk label on non-UEFI systems
(LP: #2018977)
- Fix remodel from UC20 to UC22
* Wed May 03 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.59.3
- Fix quiet boot
- i/b/physical_memory_observe: allow reading virt-phys page mappings
- gadget: warn instead of returning error if overlapping with GPT
header
- overlord,wrappers: restart always enabled units
- go.mod: update github.com/snapcore/secboot to latest uc22
- boot: make sure we update assets for the system-seed-null role
- many: ignore case for vfat partitions when validating
* Tue Apr 18 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 2.59.2
- Notify users when a user triggered auto refresh finished
* Tue Mar 28 2023 Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>
- New upstream release 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
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