- FDE: use new activation API from secboot
- FDE: use activation API also with non keydata keys
- FDE: ignore internal recovery key expiration during install
- FDE: support adding/removing PINs post-installation
- FDE: support changing PINs post-installation
- FDE: support adding a recovery key post-installation
- FDE: provide activation status via new endpoint v2/system-info/storage-encrypted
- FDE: support sealing and resealing using the preinstall check result
- FDE: disable passphrase support during install
- FDE: add keyboard configuration helpers
- FDE: lazily inject keyboard layout configuration in kernel cmdline
- FDE: enable pin tries and limits PIN entry attempts to 3
- FDE: extend secureboot endpoint to accept DB, KEK, and PK
- FDE: simplify /v2/system-volumes keyslots handling by allowing name-only entries, implicitly expanding to all system containers
- FDE: support extra non-system key slot names to support agents such as Landscape to set dedicated recovery keys
- FDE: initialize fde state after device state
- FDE: use device node to find the storage container and keys
- FDE: provide user visible name for disk based on ID_MODEL
- FDE: update secboot in snapd with latest additions and fixes
- core-initrd: add systemd service for setting plymouth keyboard layout and X11 keyboard layouts
- core-initrd: set plymouth cleartext toggle option
- core-initrd: fix plymouth missing font issue
- core-initrd: update dependency from libteec1 to libteec2
- core-initrd: add new dlopened libs
- LP: #2116949 Preseeding: add support for preseeding of hybrid systems via the installer API$
- Preseeding: check whether a path is a mountpoint before remounting
- Confdb: support tagging paths as secret in storage schemas
- Confdb: support filtering on placeholder sub-keys
- Confdb: support filtering in API and confdbstate
- Confdb: support field filtering on reads
- Confdb: support "parameters" stanza and check filters against them
- Confdb: add support for '--with' contraints
- Confdb: parsing fixes and error handling improvements
- Assertions: restrict serials to new format in confdb-control
- Assertions: add verify signature function
- Remote device management: modify request-message assertion to expose its time constraints for remote device management
- Remote device management: support polling of store messages
- Remote device management: add signing of response messages with device key
- Prompting: enable notify protocol v5 and test prompt restoration after snapd restart
- snap: change malformed '--channel=' warning to error
- snap: add 'snap report-issue' command to get the available contact details for the specified snap
- snap: add 'snap version --verbose' flag to include information on snap binaries origin
- snap: create the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR folder
- LP: #2068493 snap: add support for 'snap refresh --tracking'
- snapctl: add '--tracking' flag to 'snapctl refresh'
- Reexec: include the info filepath in the version compare debug log
- Reexec: add support for forcing reexec into and older snapd snap by setting SNAP_REEXEC=force in the environment
- snap-confine: correct error message related to snap-confine group policy validation
- snap-confine: ensure we only mount existing directories
- LP: #2134364 snap-confine: handle potential race when creating /tmp/snap-private-tmp when lacking systemd-tmpfiles support
- snap-confine: filter plus characters from security tags
- Desktop: use desktop file IDs as desktop IDs
- Desktop: store the common ID in the desktop file
- Desktop: allow graphical daemons to show icons in the dock
- Desktop: change user daemons with desktop plug defined to depend on graphical-session.target
- dm-verity for essential snaps: made change to prerequisite struct
- Cross-distro: modify SELinux profile to allow connecting to squid proxy
- Cross-distro: add support for migrating snap mount directory
- Packaging: drop ubuntu-14.04 packaging
- Packaging: drop ubuntu-{14.04,16.04} transitional binary packages
- Packaging: remove desktop files and state lock file during snapd purge
- Packaging: fix inhibition hint file being left behind on failed unlink-current-snap
- Disallow timeouts < 1us in systemd units
- Add snap-store to the user-daemons support overrides
- Support for
SuccessExitStatus=generation for systemd daemon - Make standby output more verbose
- Add prepare-serial-request hook
- Try to discard snap mount namespaces when no processes are running during snap updates
- Improve handling of snap downloads cache by introducing periodic cleanup with more aggressive policy
- Interfaces: mediatek-accel | create new interface
- Interfaces: nvidia-video-driver-libs | create new interface
- Interfaces: *-driver-libs | accept component paths
- Interfaces: desktop-legacy, unity7 | remove workaround for slash filtering in ibus address
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow writing reboot notification in /run
- Interfaces: add 'install' coreutil to base AppArmor template
- Interfaces: u2f-devices | add apparmor permissions to allow the use of the libfido2 library in snaps
- Interfaces: u2f-devices | add support for Thetis security key
- Interfaces: add AppArmor workaround for mmap MAP_HUGETLB
- Interfaces: timeserver-control | manage per-link ntp settings via systemd-networkd
- FDE: do not save incomplete FDE state when resealing was skipped
- FDE: warn of inconsistent primary or policy counter
- Confdb: document confdb in snapctl help messages
- Confdb: only confdb hooks wait if snaps are disabled
- Confdb: relax confdb change conflict checks
- Confdb: remove empty parent when removing last leaf
- Confdb: support parsing field filters
- Confdb: wrap confdb write values under "values" key
- dm-verity for essential snaps: add new naming convention for verity files
- dm-verity for essential snaps: add snap integrity discovery
- dm-verity for essential snaps: fix verity salt calculation
- Assertions: add hardware identity assertion
- Assertions: add integrity stanza in snap resources revisions
- Assertions: add request message assertion required for remote device management
- Assertions: add response-message assertion for secure remote device management
- Assertions: expose WithStackedBackstore in RODatabase
- Packaging: cross-distro | install upstream NEWS file into relevant snapd package doc directory
- Packaging: cross-distro | tweak how the blocks injecting $SNAP_MOUNT_DIR/bin are generated as required for openSUSE
- Packaging: remove deprecated snap-gdb-shim and all references now that snap run --gdb is unsupported and replaced by --gdbserver
- Preseed: call systemd-tmpfiles instead handle-writable-paths on uc26
- Preseed: do not remove the /snap dir but rather all its contents during reset
- snap-confine: attach name derived from security tag to BPF maps and programs
- snap-confine: ensure permitted capabilities match expectation
- snap-confine: fix cached snap-confine profile cleanup to report the correct error instead of masking backend setup failures
- snap-confine: Improve validation of user controlled paths
- snap-confine: tighten snap cgroup checks to ensure a snap cannot start another snap in the same cgroup, preventing incorrect device-filter installation
- core-initrd: add 26.04 ubuntu-core-initramfs package
- core-initrd: add missing order dependency for setting default system files
- core-initrd: avoid scanning loop and mmc boot partitions as the boot disk won't be any of these
- core-initrd: make cpio a Depends and remove from Build-Depends
- core-initrd: start plymouth sooner and reload when gadget is available
- Cross-distro: modify syscheck to account for differences in openSUSE 16.0+
- Validation sets: use in-flight validation sets when calling 'snapctl install' from hook
- Prompting: enable prompting for the camera interface
- Prompting: remove polkit authentication when modifying/deleting prompting rules
- LP: #2127189 Prompting: do not record notices for unchanged rules on snapd startup
- AppArmor: add free and pidof to the template
- AppArmor: adjust interfaces/profiles to cope with coreutils paths
- Interfaces: add support for compatibility expressions
- Interfaces: checkbox-support | complete overhaul
- Interfaces: define vulkan-driver-libs, cuda-driver-libs, egl-driver-libs, gbm-driver-libs, opengl-driver-libs, and opengles-driver-libs
- Interfaces: allow snaps on classic access to nvidia graphics libraries exported by *-driver-libs interfaces
- Interfaces: fwupd | broaden access to /boot/efi/EFI
- Interfaces: gsettings | set dconf-service as profile for ca.desrt.dconf.Writer
- Interfaces: iscsi-initiator, dm-multipath, nvme-control | add new interfaces
- Interfaces: opengl | grant read/write permission to /run/nvidia-persistenced/socket
- interfaces: ros-snapd-support | add access to /v2/changes/
- Interfaces: system-observe | read access to btrfs/ext4/zfs filesystem information
- Interfaces: system-trace | allow /sys/kernel/tracing/** rw
- Interfaces: usb-gadget | add support for ffs mounts in attributes
- Add autocompletion to run command
- Introduce option for disallowing auto-connection of a specific interface
- Only log errors for user service operations performed as a part of snap removal
- Patch snap names in service requests for parallel installed snaps
- Simplify traits for eMMC special partitions
- Strip apparmor_parser from debug symbols shrinking snapd size by ~3MB
- Fix InstallPathMany skipping refresh control
- Fix waiting for GDB helper to stop before attaching gdbserver
- Protect the per-snap tmp directory against being reaped by age
- Prevent disabling base snaps to ensure dependent snaps can be removed
- Modify API endpoint /v2/logs to reject n <= 0 (except for special case -1 meaning all)
- Avoid potential deadlock when task is injected after the change was aborted
- Avoid race between store download stream and cache cleanup executing in parallel when invoked by snap download task
- LP: #1851490 Use "current" instead of revision number for icons
- LP: #2121853 Add snapctl version command
- LP: #2127214 Ensure no more than one partition on disk can match a gadget partition
- LP: #2127244 snap-confine: update AppArmor profile to allow read/write to journal as workaround for snap-confine fd inheritance prevented by newer AppArmor
- LP: #2127766 Add new tracing mechanism with independently running strace and shim synchronization
- FDE: support replacing TPM protected keys at runtime via the /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: support secboot preinstall check fix actions for 25.10+ hybrid installs via the /v2/system/{label} endpoint
- FDE: tweak polkit message to remove jargon
- FDE: ensure proper sealing with kernel command line defaults
- FDE: provide generic reseal function
- FDE: support using OPTEE for protecting keys, as an alternative to existing fde-setup hooks (Ubuntu Core only)
- Confdb: 'snapctl get --view' supports passing default values
- Confdb: content sub-rules in confdb-schemas inherit their parent rule's "access"
- Confdb: make confdb error kinds used in API more generic
- Confdb: fully support lists and indexed paths (including unset)
- Prompting: add notice backend for prompting types (unused for now)
- Prompting: include request cgroup in prompt
- Prompting: handle unsupported xattrs
- Prompting: add permission mapping for the camera interface
- Notices: read notices from state without state lock
- Notices: add methods to get notice fields and create, reoccur, and deepcopy notice
- Notices: add notice manager to coordinate separate notice backends
- Notices: support draining notices from state when notice backend registered as producer of a particular notice type
- Notices: query notice manager from daemon instead of querying state for notices directly
- Packaging: Ubuntu | ignore .git directory
- Packaging: FIPS | bump deb Go FIPS to 1.23
- Packaging: snap | bump FIPS toolchain to 1.23
- Packaging: debian | sync most upstream changes
- Packaging: debian-sid | depends on libcap2-bin for postint
- Packaging: Fedora | drop fakeroot
- Packaging: snap | modify snapd.mk to pass build tags when running unit tests
- Packaging: snap | modify snapd.mk to pass nooptee build tag
- Packaging: modify Makefile.am to fix snap-confine install profile with 'make hack'
- Packaging: modify Makefile.am to fix out-of-tree use of 'make hack'
- LP: #2122054 Snap installation: skip snap icon download when running in a cloud or using a proxy store
- Snap installation: add timeout to http client when downloading snap icon
- Snap installation: use http(s) proxy for icon downloads
- LP: #2117558 snap-confine: fix error message with /root/snap not accessible
- snap-confine: fix non-suid limitation by switching to root:root to operate v1 freezer
- core-initrd: do not use writable-paths when not available
- core-initrd: remove debian folder
- LP: #1916244 Interfaces: gpio-chardev | re-enable the gpio-chardev interface now with the more robust gpio-aggregator configfs kernel interface
- Interfaces: gpio-chardev | exclusive snap connections, raise a conflict when both gpio-chardev and gpio are connected
- Interfaces: gpio-chardev | fix gpio-aggregator module load order
- Interfaces: ros-snapd-support | grant access to /v2/changes
- Interfaces: uda-driver-libs, egl-driver-libs, gbm-driver-libs, opengl-driver-libs, opengles-driver-libs | new interfaces to support nvidia driver components
- Interfaces: microstack-support | allow DPDK (hugepage related permissions)
- Interfaces: system-observe | allow reading additional files in /proc, needed by node-exporter
- Interfaces: u2f | add Cano Key, Thesis FIDO2 BioFP+ Security Key and Kensington VeriMark DT Fingerprint Key to device list
- Interfaces: snap-interfaces-requests-control | allow shell API control
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow access to Intel CVS sysfs
- Interfaces: hardware-observe | allow read access to Kernel Samepage Merging (KSM)
- Interfaces: xilinx-dma | support Multi Queue DMA (QDMA) IP
- Interfaces: spi | relax sysfs permission rules to allow access to SPI device node attributes
- Interfaces: content | introduce compatibility label
- LP: #2121238 Interfaces: do not expose Kerberos tickets for classic snaps
- Interfaces: ssh-public-keys | allow ro access to public host keys with ssh-key
- Interfaces: Modify AppArmor template to allow listing systemd credentials and invoking systemd-creds
- Interfaces: modify AppArmor template with workarounds for Go 1.35 cgroup aware GOMAXPROCS
- Interfaces: modify seccomp template to allow landlock_*
- Prevent snap hooks from running while relevant snaps are unlinked
- Make refreshes wait before unlinking snaps if running hooks can be affected
- Fix systemd unit generation by moving "WantedBy=" from section "unit" to "install"
- Add opt-in logging support for snap-update-ns
- Unhide 'snap help' sign and export-key under Development category
- LP: #2117121 Cleanly support socket activation for classic snap
- Add architecture to 'snap version' output
- Add 'snap debug api' option to disable authentication through auth.json
- Show grade in notes for 'snap info --verbose'
- Fix preseeding failure due to scan-disk issue on RPi
- Support 'snap debug api' queries to user session agents
- LP: #2112626 Improve progress reporting for snap install/refresh
- Drop legacy BAMF_DESKTOP_FILE_HINT in desktop files
- Fix /v2/apps error for root user when user services are present
- LP: #2114704 Extend output to indicate when snap data snapshot was created during remove
- Improve how we handle emmc volumes
- Improve handling of system-user extra assertions
- FDE: auto-repair when recovery key is used
- FDE: revoke keys on shim update
- FDE: revoke old TPM keys when dbx has been updated
- FDE: do not reseal FDE hook keys every time
- FDE: store keys in the kernel keyring when installing from initrd
- FDE: allow disabled DMA on Core
- FDE: snap-bootstrap: do not check for partition in scan-disk on CVM
- FDE: support secboot preinstall check for 25.10+ hybrid installs via the /v2/system/{label} endpoint
- FDE: support generating recovery key at install time via the /v2/systems/{label} endpoint
- FDE: update passphrase quality check at install time via the /v2/systems/{label} endpoint
- FDE: support replacing recovery key at runtime via the new /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: support checking recovery keys at runtime via the /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: support enumerating keyslots at runtime via the /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: support changing passphrase at runtime via the /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: support passphrase quality check at runtime via the /v2/system-volumes endpoint
- FDE: update secboot to revision 3e181c8edf0f
- Confdb: support lists and indexed paths on read and write
- Confdb: alias references must be wrapped in brackets
- Confdb: support indexed paths in confdb-schema assertion
- Confdb: make API errors consistent with options
- Confdb: fetch confdb-schema assertion on access
- Confdb: prevent
--previousfrom being used in read-side hooks - Components: fix snap command with multiple components
- Components: set revision of seed components to x1
- Components: unmount extra kernel-modules components mounts
- AppArmor Prompting: add lifespan "session" for prompting rules
- AppArmor Prompting: support restoring prompts after snapd restart
- AppArmor Prompting: limit the extra information included in probed AppArmor features and system key
- Notices: refactor notice state internals
- SELinux: look for restorecon/matchpathcon at all known locations rather than current PATH
- SELinux: update policy to allow watching cgroups (for RAA), and talking to user session agents (service mgmt/refresh)
- Refresh App Awareness: Fix unexpected inotify file descriptor cleanup
- snap-confine: workaround for glibc fchmodat() fallback and handle ENOSYS
- snap-confine: add support for host policy for limiting users able to run snaps
- LP: #2114923 Reject system key mismatch advise when not yet seeded
- Use separate lanes for essential and non-essential snaps during seeding and allow non-essential installs to retry
- Fix bug preventing remodel from core18 to core18 when snapd snap is unchanged
- LP: #2112551 Make removal of last active revision of a snap equal to snap remove
- LP: #2114779 Allow non-gpt in fallback mode to support RPi
- Switch from using systemd LogNamespace to manually controlled journal quotas
- Change snap command trace logging to only log the command names
- Grant desktop-launch access to /v2/snaps
- Update code for creating the snap journal stream
- Switch from using core to snapd snap for
snap debug connectivity - LP: #2112544 Fix offline remodel case where we switched to a channel without an actual refresh
- LP: #2112332 Exclude snap/snapd/preseeding when generating preseed tarball
- LP: #1952500 Fix snap command progress reporting
- LP: #1849346 Interfaces: kerberos-tickets | add new interface
- Interfaces: u2f | add support for Thetis Pro
- Interfaces: u2f | add OneSpan device and fix older device
- Interfaces: pipewire, audio-playback | support pipewire as system daemon
- Interfaces: gpg-keys | allow access to GPG agent sockets
- Interfaces: usb-gadget | add new interface
- Interfaces: snap-fde-control, firmware-updater-support | add new interfaces to support FDE
- Interfaces: timezone-control | extend to support timedatectl varlink
- Interfaces: cpu-control | fix rules for accessing IRQ sysfs and procfs directories
- Interfaces: microstack-support | allow SR-IOV attachments
- Interfaces: modify AppArmor template to allow snaps to read their own systemd credentials
- Interfaces: posix-mq | allow stat on /dev/mqueue
- LP: #2098780 Interfaces: log-observe | add capability dac_read_search
- Interfaces: block-devices | allow access to ZFS pools and datasets
- LP: #2033883 Interfaces: block-devices | opt-in access to individual partitions
- Interfaces: accel | add new interface to support accel kernel subsystem
- Interfaces: shutdown | allow client to bind on its side of dbus socket
- Interfaces: modify seccomp template to allow pwritev2
- Interfaces: modify AppArmor template to allow reading /proc/sys/fs/nr_open
- Packaging: drop snap.failure service for openSUSE
- Packaging: add SELinux support for openSUSE
- Packaging: disable optee when using nooptee build tag
- Packaging: add support for static PIE builds in snapd.mk, drop pie.patch from openSUSE
- Packaging: add libcap2-bin runtime dependency for ubuntu-16.04
- Packaging: use snapd.mk for packaging on Fedora
- Packaging: exclude .git directory
- Packaging: fix DPKG_PARSECHANGELOG assignment
- Packaging: fix building on Fedora with dpkg installed
- FDE: Fix reseal with v1 hook key format
- FDE: set role in TPM keys
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): add handling for expired requests or listener in the kernel
- AppArmor prompting: log the notification protocol version negotiated with the kernel
- AppArmor prompting: implement notification protocol v5 (manually disabled for now)
- AppArmor prompting: register listener ID with the kernel and resend notifications after snapd restart (requires protocol v5+)
- AppArmor prompting: select interface from metadata tags and set request interface accordingly (requires protocol v5+)
- AppArmor prompting: include request PID in prompt
- AppArmor prompting: move the max prompt ID file to a subdirectory of the snap run directory
- AppArmor prompting: avoid race between closing/reading socket fd
- Confdb (experimental): make save/load hooks mandatory if affecting ephemeral
- Confdb: clear tx state on failed load
- Confdb: modify 'snap sign' formats JSON in assertion bodies (e.g. confdb-schema)
- Confdb: add NestedEphemeral to confdb schemas
- Confdb: add early concurrency checks
- Simplify building Arch package
- Enable snapd.apparmor on Fedora
- Build snapd snap with libselinux
- Emit snapd.apparmor warning only when using apparmor backend
- When running snap, on system key mismatch e.g. due to network attached HOME, trigger and wait for a security profiles regeneration
- Avoid requiring state lock to get user, warnings, or pending restarts when handling API requests
- Start/stop ssh.socket for core24+ when enabling/disabling the ssh service
- Allow providing a different base when overriding snap
- Modify snap-bootstrap to mount snapd snap directly to /snap
- Modify snap-bootstrap to mount /lib/{modules,firmware} from snap as fallback
- Modify core-initrd to use systemctl reboot instead of /sbin/reboot
- Copy the initramfs 'manifest-initramfs.yaml' to initramfs file creation directory so it can be copied to the kernel snap
- Build the early initrd from installed ucode packages
- Create drivers tree when remodeling from UC20/22 to UC24
- Load gpio-aggregator module before the helper-service needs it
- Run 'systemctl start' for mount units to ensure they are run also when unchanged
- Update godbus version to 'v5 v5.1.0'
- Add support for POST to /v2/system-info with system-key-mismatch indication from the client
- Add 'snap sign --update-timestamp' flag to update timestamp before signing
- Add vfs support for snap-update-ns to use to simulate and evaluate mount sequences
- Add refresh app awareness debug logging
- Add snap-bootstrap scan-disk subcommand to be called from udev
- Add feature to inject proxy store assertions in build image
- Add OP-TEE bindings, enable by default in ARM and ARM64 builds
- Fix systemd dependency options target to go under 'unit' section
- Fix snap-bootstrap reading kernel snap instead of base resulting in bad modeenv
- Fix a regression during seeding when using early-config
- LP: #2107443 reset SHELL to /bin/bash in non-classic snaps
- Make Azure kernels reboot upon panic
- Fix snap-confine to not drop capabilities if the original user is already root
- Fix data race when stopping services
- Fix task dependency issue by temporarily disable re-refresh on prerequisite updates
- Fix compiling against op-tee on armhf
- Fix dbx update when not using FDE
- Fix potential validation set deadlock due to bases waiting on snaps
- LP: #2104066 Only cancel notices requests on stop/shutdown
- Interfaces: bool-file | fix gpio glob pattern as required for '[XXXX]*' format
- Interfaces: system-packages-doc | allow access to /usr/local/share/doc
- Interfaces: ros-snapd-support interface | added new interface
- Interfaces: udisks2 | allow chown capability
- Interfaces: system-observe | allow reading cpu.max
- Interfaces: serial-port | add ttyMAXX to allowed list
- Interfaces: modified seccomp template to disallow 'O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE'
- Interfaces: fwupd | add support for modem-manager plugin
- Interfaces: gpio-chardev | make unsupported and remove experimental flag to hide this feature until gpio-aggregator is available
- Interfaces: hardware-random | fix udev match rule
- Interfaces: timeserver-control | extend to allow timedatectl timesync commands
- Interfaces: add symlinks backend
- Interfaces: system key mismatch handling
- FDE: re-factor listing of the disks based on run mode model and model to correctly resolve paths
- FDE: run snapd from snap-failure with the correct keyring mode
- Snap components: allow remodeling back to an old snap revision that includes components
- Snap components: fix remodel to a kernel snap that is already installed on the system, but not the current kernel due to a previous remodel.
- Snap components: fix for snapctl inputs that can crash snapd
- Confdb (experimental): load ephemeral data when reading data via snapctl get
- Confdb (experimental): load ephemeral data when reading data via snap get
- Confdb (experimental): rename {plug}-view-changed hook to observe-view-{plug}
- Confdb (experimental): rename confdb assertion to confdb-schema
- Confdb (experimental): change operator grouping in confdb-control assertion
- Confdb (experimental): add confdb-control API
- AppArmor: extend the probed features to include the presence of files, as well as directories
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): simplify the listener
- AppArmor metadata tagging (disabled): probe parser support for tags
- AppArmor metadata tagging (disabled): implement notification protocol v5
- Confidential VMs: sysroot.mount is now dynamically created by snap-bootstrap instead of being a static file in the initramfs
- Confidential VMs: Add new implementation of snap integrity API
- Non-suid snap-confine: first phase to replace snap-confine suid with capabilities to achieve the required permissions
- Initial changes for dynamic security profiles updates
- Provide snap icon fallback for /v2/icons without requiring network access at runtime
- Add eMMC gadget update support
- Support reexec when using /usr/libexec/snapd on the host (Arch Linux, openSUSE)
- Auto detect snap mount dir location on unknown distributions
- Modify snap-confine AppArmor template to allow all glibc HWCAPS subdirectories to prevent launch errors
- LP: #2102456 update secboot to bf2f40ea35c4 and modify snap-bootstrap to remove usage of go templates to reduce size by 4MB
- Fix snap-bootstrap to mount kernel snap from /sysroot/writable/system-data
- LP: #2106121 fix snap-bootstrap busy loop
- Fix encoding of time.Time by using omitzero instead of omitempty (on go 1.24+)
- Fix setting snapd permissions through permctl for openSUSE
- Fix snap struct json tags typo
- Fix snap pack configure hook permissions check incorrect file mode
- Fix gadget snap reinstall to honor existing sizes of partitions
- Fix to update command line when re-executing a snapd tool
- Fix 'snap validate' of specific missing newline and add error on missed case of 'snap validate --refresh' without another action
- Workaround for snapd-confine time_t size differences between architectures
- Disallow pack and install of snapd, base and os with specific configure hooks
- Drop udev build dependency that is no longer required and add missing systemd-dev dependency
- Build snap-bootstrap with nomanagers tag to decrease size by 1MB
- Interfaces: polkit | support custom polkit rules
- Interfaces: opengl | LP: #2088456 fix GLX on nvidia when xorg is confined by AppArmor
- Interfaces: log-observe | add missing udev rule
- Interfaces: hostname-control | fix call to hostnamectl in core24
- Interfaces: network-control | allow removing created network namespaces
- Interfaces: scsi-generic | re-enable base declaration for scsi-generic plug
- Interfaces: u2f | add support for Arculus AuthentiKey
- LP: #2109843 fix missing preseed files when running in a container
- Snap components: LP: #2104933 workaround for classic 24.04/24.10 models that incorrectly specify core22 instead of core24
- Update build dependencies
- 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
- 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
- Fix snap-confine type specifier type mismatch on armhf
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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-simplifydefault 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-simplifyin 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 --chainflag 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_HTTPenvironment 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