Call for testing: Snapcraft 4.5

[sergiusens]

Snapcraft 4.5 is on the candidate channel

Draft release notes can be found on the Release page.

The team would appreciate any feedback pertinent to this release.

[James-Carroll]

Running the core20 base with the new gnome 3-38 extension has fixed a long standing issue with font cache incompatibility with one of my snaps, so thanks for all the work <3

[adasiko]

How to switch your snap to use LZO compression

Recently we enabled using LZO as a compression format for your snap in order to get better decompression performance for i.e. desktop application snaps. Specifically using LZO compression instead of the default XZ compression will help speedup the time it takes your snap to launch the very first time on a user’s system, at the cost of a slightly larger snap file. You can read more details about this in this blog post. If you would like to switch to using LZO compression with your snap, all you …

EXPERIMENTAL: Setting the squash FS compression to ‘lzo’

Still experimental?

[ijohnson]

FWIW, from the snapd side of things LZO support is no longer experimental and has been fully enabled for all snaps.

[cjp256]

@adasiko @ijohnson Opened PR to remove experimental notice: https://github.com/snapcore/snapcraft/pull/3421

Thanks for pointing it out

[sergiusens]

Snapcraft 4.5.1 is now on candidate, with fixes for:

• locked pip to working version with python 3.5
• improvements to python integration with the gnome-3-38 and gnome-3-34 extension
• removed unnecessary experimental warning when using lzo

[sergiusens]

Changeset for 4.5 and it’s followup 4.5.1 which is now on the stable channel for snapcraft.