Upcoming change to the output of 'snap info'

snap info is going to start showing the date the snap was released to the channel, as requested in lp:1758288. This should be landing as part of 2.37.

If you’re manually parsing the output of snap info, this might break things. If it’s a problem, speak up now!

(also as mentioned in that bug in passing, we’ll be tweaking the alignment a little bit – but this shouldn’t break anything).

As an example, here’s the output of snap info go using the new feature:

name:      go
summary:   Go programming language compiler, linker, stdlib
publisher: Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)
contact:   michael.hudson@ubuntu.com
license:   unset
description: |
  This snap provides an assembler, compiler, linker, and compiled libraries
  for the Go programming language.
commands:
  - go
  - go.gofmt
snap-id:      Md1HBASHzP4i0bniScAjXGnOII9cEK6e
tracking:     1.10/stable
refresh-date: 23 days ago, at 23:06 GMT
channels:                                              
  stable:         1.11.4        2018-12-17 (3095) 82MB classic
  candidate:      ↑                                    
  beta:           ↑                                    
  edge:           devel-9fc22d2 2018-11-06 (3062) 85MB classic
  1.11/stable:    1.11.4        2018-12-17 (3095) 82MB classic
  1.11/candidate: 1.11.4        2018-12-17 (3095) 82MB classic
  1.11/beta:      ↑                                    
  1.11/edge:      ↑                                    
  1.10/stable:    1.10.7        2018-12-17 (3092) 58MB classic
  1.10/candidate: 1.10.7        2018-12-17 (3092) 58MB classic
  1.10/beta:      ↑                                    
  1.10/edge:      ↑                                    
  1.9/stable:     1.9.7         2018-06-13 (2117) 58MB classic
  1.9/candidate:  ↑                                    
  1.9/beta:       ↑                                    
  1.9/edge:       ↑                                    
  1.8/stable:     1.8.7         2018-02-07 (1407) 51MB classic
  1.8/candidate:  ↑                                    
  1.8/beta:       ↑                                    
  1.8/edge:       ↑                                    
  1.7/stable:     1.7.6         2017-06-02  (324) 48MB classic
  1.7/candidate:  ↑                                    
  1.7/beta:       ↑                                    
  1.7/edge:       ↑                                    
  1.6/stable:     1.6.4         2017-05-17  (122) 49MB classic
  1.6/candidate:  ↑                                    
  1.6/beta:       ↑                                    
  1.6/edge:       ↑                                    
installed:        1.10.7                   (3092) 58MB classic
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Great news! I’ve been hoping for this feature.