Canonical Releases Snapcraft 2.29 Snap Creator Tool for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & 17.04

Canonical's Sergio Schvezov released version 2.29 of Snapcraft, the open-source command-line utility developed by Canonical for Ubuntu Linux to allow application developers to package their apps as Snaps.

Snapcraft 2.29 comes about one month after the release of Snapcraft 2.28, and it's possible thanks to the contributions made by several developers, including Sergio Schvezov, Leo Arias, Joe Talbott, Colin Watson, Andy Li, Chris MacNaughton, Parameswaran Sivatharman, Christian Dywan, Celso Providelo, Kyle Fazzari, Facundo Batista, and Jumpei Ogawa.

There are changes all over, and among the ones worth mentioning here are support running from other operating systems, an improved retry strategy for GETs to Snappy Store, better push output, switch to the newer LTS version of Node.js for the nodejs plugin, along with support for the Yarn reliable and secure dependency management tool.

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