Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.23 Snap Creator for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 16.10

Canonical's Snappy development team have released a new maintenance version of the Snapcraft 2.x tool that lets applications developers package their apps as Snap packages for Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distributions that support Snaps.

A Snap is a universal binary format that can be distributed across major Linux-based operating systems, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, Gentoo Linux, openSUSE, as well as on embedded Linux build systems like OpenEmbedded, OpenWRT, and Yocto, if support for Snappy technologies is present.

Snapcraft 2.23 is here almost a month after the release of Snapcraft 2.22, which introduced support for building gadget Snaps and RPM as a source entry, and it looks like it's a consistent update that adds many exciting new features and improvements, starting with the implementation of the long anticipated FTP support for sources.

Snaps can now be downloaded from the Snappy Store without login

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