release-notes-snapcraft-4-5

The team behind Snapcraft is pleased to announce the release of Snapcraft 4.5.

Highlights for this release include:

• path property for exact paths when specifying repositories

• a new gnome-3-38 extension which uses gnome-3-38-2004 and core20

• enable 7z, bzr, hg, svn, zip for non-linux sources

• port of the qmake plugin to v2 of the plugin spec

For general details, including installation instructions, see Snapcraft overview, or take a look at Snapcraft release notes for other Snapcraft releases.

Full list of changes

The issues and features worked on for Snapcraft 4.5 are reflected in the following change list:

[details=List of changes for Snapcraft 4.5]

• repo: key management refactor @cjp256 (#3359)

• repo: default to target arch for stage package cache @cjp256 (#3416)

• package repositories: introduce path property for exact paths @cjp256 (#3336)

• project loader, schema: add advanced grammar support for build-environment @cjp256 (#3350)

• project: enable experimental target-arch support for core20 @cjp256 (#3410)

• project: always set target arch even if not cross compiling @cjp256 (#3418)

• build(deps): bump lxml from 4.5.0 to 4.6.2 @dependabot (#3404)

• Allow validation assertions to be revoked @nessita (#3417)

• Add new gnome-3-38 extension which uses gnome-3-38-2004 and core20 @kenvandine (#3407)

• project loader: export SNAPCRAFT_TARGET_ARCH in build environment @cjp256 (#3414)

• grammar: ensure all dictionary primitives are captured @cjp256 (#3412)

• Fix a few licenses in ros-related test files @artivis (#3409)

• repo: only install build packages marked for installation @cjp256 (#3411)

• sources: enable 7z, bzr, hg, svn, zip for non-linux @cjp256 (#3369)

• project loader: advanced grammar support for lists @cjp256 (#3360)

• elf: extract defined symbol versions @jhenstridge (#3408)

• [feature] ROS plugins v2 out of source tree builds @artivis (#3405)

• pluginhandler: do not walk symlinks for include filesets @cjp256 (#3406)

• storeapi: remove unused MissingSnapdError @sergiusens (#3403)

• cli: add missing quote key creation hint @sergiusens (#3402)

• yaml_utils: promote module to a package @cjp256 (#3385)

• ci: uprev pyinstaller and switch timestamp server @cjp256 (#3401)

• autotools v2 plugin: support autogen.sh and bootstrap @sergiusens (#3398)

• requirements: uprev python-apt @sergiusens (#3400)

• cli: do not require snapd deb for assertions @sergiusens (#3399)

• plugins v2: port the qmake plugin @jhenstridge (#3391)

• plugins v2: add support for out of source tree builds @jhenstridge (#3392) [/details]