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Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.18 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.18

With the coming of spring (in some hemispheres), the focus switched to a spring
cleaning mode; there are some reasons though for the version bump due to this
feature: deb files can now be used as sources.

Among the fixes worth mentioning are:

  • the lifecycle for parts is now faster when it comes to calculating part dependencies.
  • less time spent during priming.
  • macaroons are now refreshed every time you talk to the store.
  • cleanbuild now uses the built-in image remotes.
  • replacement of deprecated store apis in use.
  • filesets now work with remote parts.
  • general fixes to match the UX.
  • general fixes to the following plugins: make, dump, python and nodejs.

Details can be seen on the milestones page.

This release has seen many contributions from outside of the snapcraft
core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here's a team
thank you for:

  • Celso Providelo
  • Colin Watson
  • Enrique Hernández Bello
  • Evan Dandrea
  • James Lucas
  • Jonathon Love
  • Sam Yaple

To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus (16.04), we
suggest you install the snapcraft package from the Ubuntu Archives:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapcraft

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.18

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io mailing list or directly in
the #snappy channel on irc.freenode.net.

To file bugs, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug.

Happy snapcrafting,
-- Sergio and the team

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