- AppArmor prompting (experimental): Fix kernel prompting support check
- Allow kernel snaps to have content slots
- Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending
- 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
- Fix missing aux info from store on snap setup
- Bump squashfuse from version 0.5.0 to 0.5.2 (used in snapd deb only)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Install systemd files in correct location for 24.04
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Switch to plug/slot in the "qualcomm-ipc-router" interface but keeping backward compatibility
- Fix "custom-device" udev KERNEL values
- Allow firmware-updater snap to install user-daemons
- Allow loopback as a block device
- Fix bug in the "private" plug attribute of the shared-memory interface that can result in a crash when upgrading from an old version of snapd.
- Fix missing integration of the /etc/apparmor.d/tunables/home.d/ apparmor to support non-standard home directories
- Performance improvements for apparmor_parser to compensate for
the slower
-O expr-simplify
default used. This should bring the performance back to the 2.60 level and even increase it for many use-cases. - Bugfixes
- Bugfixes
- Use "aes-cbc-essiv:sha256" in cryptsetup on arm 32bit devices to increase speed on devices with CAAM support
- Stop using
-O no-expr-simplify
in apparmor_parser to avoid potential exponential memory use. This can lead to slower policy complication in some cases but it is much safer on low memory devices.
- 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"
- Explicitly disallow the use of ioctl + TIOCLINUX This fixes CVE-2023-1523.
- Retry when looking for disk label on non-UEFI systems
- Fix remodel from UC20 to UC22
- Fix quiet boot
- Ignore case for vfat paritions when validating
- Restart always enabled units
- Notify users when a user triggered auto refresh finished
- 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
- 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