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Tue Jun 03 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.70
- 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
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Tue Apr 08 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.69
- 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
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Wed Apr 02 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.4
- Snap components: LP: #2104933 workaround for classic 24.04/24.10
models that incorrectly specify core22 instead of core24
- Update build dependencies
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Mon Mar 10 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.3
- FDE: LP: #2101834 snapd 2.68+ and snap-bootstrap <2.68 fallback to
old keyring path
- Fix Plucky snapd deb build issue related to /var/lib/snapd/void
permissions
- Fix snapd deb build complaint about ifneq with extra bracket
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Thu Feb 27 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.2
- FDE: use boot mode for FDE hooks
- FDE: add snap-bootstrap compatibility check to prevent image
creation with incompatible snapd and kernel snap
- FDE: add argon2 out-of-process KDF support
- FDE: have separate mutex for the sections writing a fresh modeenv
- FDE: LP: #2099709 update secboot to e07f4ae48e98
- Confdb: support pruning ephemeral data and process alternative
types in order
- core-initrd: look at env to mount directly to /sysroot
- core-initrd: prepare for Plucky build and split out 24.10
(Oracular)
- Fix missing primed packages in snapd snap manifest
- Interfaces: posix-mq | fix incorrect clobbering of global variable
and make interface more precise
- Interfaces: opengl | add more kernel fusion driver files
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Mon Feb 24 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68.1
- Fix snap-confine type specifier type mismatch on armhf
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Thu Feb 13 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.68
- FDE: add support for new and more extensible key format that is
unified between TPM and FDE hook
- FDE: add support for adding passphrases during installation
- FDE: update secboot to 30317622bbbc
- Snap components: make kernel components available on firstboot
after either initramfs or ephemeral rootfs style install
- Snap components: mount drivers tree from initramfs so kernel
modules are available in early boot stages
- Snap components: support remodeling to models that contain
components
- Snap components: support offline remodeling to models that contain
components
- Snap components: support creating new recovery systems with
components
- Snap components: support downloading components with 'snap
download' command
- Snap components: support sideloading asserted components
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): improve version checks and
handling of listener notification protocol for communication with
kernel AppArmor
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): make prompt replies idempotent,
and have at most one rule for any given path pattern, with
potentially mixed outcomes and lifespans
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): timeout unresolved prompts after
a period of client inactivity
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): return an error if a patch
request to the API would result in a rule without any permissions
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): warn if there is no prompting
client present but prompting is enabled, or if a prompting-related
error occurs during snapd startup
- AppArmor Prompting(experimental): do not log error when converting
empty permissions to AppArmor permissions
- Confdb(experimental): rename registries to confdbs (including API
/v2/registries => /v2/confdb)
- Confdb(experimental): support marking confdb schemas as ephemeral
- Confdb(experimental): add confdb-control assertion and feature
flag
- Refresh App Awareness(experimental): LP: #2089195 prevent
possibility of incorrect notification that snap will quit and
update
- Confidential VMs: snap-bootstrap support for loading partition
information from a manifest file for cloudimg-rootfs mode
- Confidential VMs: snap-bootstrap support for setting up cloudimg-
rootfs as an overlayfs with integrity protection
- dm-verity for essential snaps: add support for snap-integrity
assertion
- Interfaces: modify AppArmor template to allow owner read on
@{PROC}/@{pid}/fdinfo/*
- Interfaces: LP: #2072987 modify AppArmor template to allow using
setpriv to run daemon as non-root user
- Interfaces: add configfiles backend that ensures the state of
configuration files in the filesystem
- Interfaces: add ldconfig backend that exposes libraries coming
from snaps to either the rootfs or to other snaps
- Interfaces: LP: #1712808 LP: 1865503 disable udev backend when
inside a container
- Interfaces: add auditd-support interface that grants audit_control
capability and required paths for auditd to function
- Interfaces: add checkbox-support interface that allows
unrestricted access to all devices
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow access to dell bios recovery
- Interfaces: fwupd | allow access to shim and fallback shim
- Interfaces: mount-control | add mount option validator to detect
mount option conflicts early
- Interfaces: cpu-control | add read access to /sys/kernel/irq/
- Interfaces: locale-control | changed to be implicit on Ubuntu Core
Desktop
- Interfaces: microstack-support | support for utilizing of AMD SEV
capabilities
- Interfaces: u2f | added missing OneSpan device product IDs
- Interfaces: auditd-support | grant seccomp setpriority
- Interfaces: opengl interface | enable parsing of nvidia driver
information files
- Allow mksquashfs 'xattrs' when packing snap types os, core, base
and snapd as part of work to support non-root snap-confine
- Upstream/downstream packaging changes and build updates
- Improve error logs for malformed desktop files to also show which
desktop file is at fault
- Provide more precise error message when overriding channels with
grade during seed creation
- Expose 'snap prepare-image' validation parameter
- Add snap-seccomp 'dump' command that dumps the filter rules from a
compiled profile
- Add fallback release info location /etc/initrd-release
- Added core-initrd to snapd repo and fixed issues with ubuntu-core-
initramfs deb builds
- Remove stale robust-mount-namespace-updates experimental feature
flag
- Remove snapd-snap experimental feature (rejected) and it's feature
flag
- Changed snap-bootstrap to mount base directly on /sysroot
- Mount ubuntu-seed mounted as no-{suid,exec,dev}
- Mapping volumes to disks: add support for volume-assignments in
gadget
- Fix silently broken binaries produced by distro patchelf 0.14.3 by
using locally build patchelf 0.18
- Fix mismatch between listed refresh candidates and actual refresh
due to outdated validation sets
- Fix 'snap get' to produce compact listing for tty
- Fix missing store-url by keeping it as part of auxiliary store
info
- Fix snap-confine attempting to retrieve device cgroup setup inside
container where it is not available
- Fix 'snap set' and 'snap get' panic on empty strings with early
error checking
- Fix logger debug entries to show correct caller and file
information
- Fix issue preventing hybrid systems from being seeded on first
boot
- LP: #1966203 remove auto-import udev rules not required by deb
package to avoid unwanted syslog errors
- LP: #1886414 fix progress reporting when stdout is on a tty, but
stdin is not
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Wed Jan 22 2025 Zygmunt Krynicki <zygmunt.krynicki@canonical.com>
- The changelog date and author have been modified to maintain linearity.
- Drop 0001-data-selinux-remove-timedatex.patch - applied upstream.
- New upstream release 2.67
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): allow overlapping rules
- Registry view (experimental): Changes to registry data (from both
users and snaps) can be validated and saved by custodian snaps
- Registry view (experimental): Support 'snapctl get --pristine' to
read the registry data excluding staged transaction changes
- Registry view (experimental): Put registry commands behind
experimental feature flag
- Components: Make modules shipped/created by kernel-modules
components available right after reboot
- Components: Add tab completion for local component files
- Components: Allow installing snaps and components from local files
jointly on the CLI
- Components: Allow 'snapctl model' command for gadget and kernel
snaps
- Components: Add 'snap components' command
- Components: Bug fixes
- eMMC gadget updates (WIP): add syntax support in gadget.yaml for
eMMC schema
- Support for ephemeral recovery mode on hybrid systems
- Support for dm-verity options in snap-bootstrap
- Support for overlayfs options and allow empty what argument for
tmpfs
- Enable ubuntu-image to determine the size of the disk image to
create
- Expose 'snap debug' commands 'validate-seed' and 'seeding'
- Add debug API option to use dedicated snap socket /run/snapd-
snap.socket
- Hide experimental features that are no longer required
(accepted/rejected)
- Mount ubuntu-save partition with no{exec,dev,suid} at install, run
and factory-reset
- Improve memory controller support with cgroup v2
- Support ssh socket activation configurations (used by ubuntu
22.10+)
- Fix generation of AppArmor profile with incorrect revision during
multi snap refresh
- Fix refresh app awareness related deadlock edge case
- Fix not caching delta updated snap download
- Fix passing non root uid, guid to initial tmpfs mount
- Fix ignoring snaps in try mode when amending
- Fix reloading of service activation units to avoid systemd errors
- Fix snapd snap FIPS build on Launchpad to use Advantage Pro FIPS
updates PPA
- Make killing of snap apps best effort to avoid possibility of
malicious failure loop
- Alleviate impact of auto-refresh failure loop with progressive
delay
- Dropped timedatex in selinux-policy to avoid runtime issue
- Fix missing syscalls in seccomp profile
- Modify AppArmor template to allow using SNAP_REEXEC on arch
systems
- Modify AppArmor template to allow using vim.tiny (available in
base snaps)
- Modify AppArmor template to add read-access to debian_version
- Modify AppArmor template to allow owner to read
@{PROC}/@{pid}/sessionid
- {common,personal,system}-files interface: prohibit trailing @ in
filepaths
- {desktop,shutdown,system-observe,upower-observe} interface:
improve for Ubuntu Core Desktop
- custom-device interface: allow @ in custom-device filepaths
- desktop interface: improve launch entry and systray integration
with session
- desktop-legacy interface: allow DBus access to
com.canonical.dbusmenu
- fwupd interface: allow access to nvmem for thunderbolt plugin
- mpris interface: add plasmashell as label
- mount-control interface: add support for nfs mounts
- network-{control,manager} interface: add missing dbus link rules
- network-manager-observe interface: add getDevices methods
- opengl interface: add Kernel Fusion Driver access to opengl
- screen-inhibit-control interface: improve screen inhibit control
for use on core
- udisks2 interface: allow ping of the UDisks2 service
- u2f-devices interface: add Nitrokey Passkey
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Sun Jan 19 2025 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.66.1-3
- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_42_Mass_Rebuild
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Wed Jan 15 2025 Ernest Lotter <ernest.lotter@canonical.com>
- New upstream release 2.67.1
- Fix apparmor permissions to allow snaps access to kernel modules
and firmware on UC24, which also fixes the kernel-modules-control
interface on UC24
- AppArmor prompting (experimental): disallow /./ and /../ in path
patterns
- Fix 'snap run' getent based user lookup in case of bad PATH
- Fix snapd using the incorrect AppArmor version during undo of an
refresh for regenerating snap profiles
- Add new syscalls to base templates
- hardware-observe interface: allow riscv_hwprobe syscall
- mount-observe interface: allow listmount and statmount syscalls