Could we include brief release notes when publishing a snap?

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Would be very useful to let end users see what’s been improved / fixed in a release, akin to the iOS app store where devs often include a brief “what’s new”. Could also link to an external issue tracking / version control system.

AFAIK, end users don’t have an easy way to see the merits of upgrading a snap - other than to try and look to the source GH repo - but even that won’t be available for private snaps.

Thanks!

Brendan / EpiSensor Engineering Team

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+1 from me on this. We can make it like this,

add a top level section as release-note, and it can be adopted from the appstream metadata file if possible.

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Well, actually, you can.

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  • Find the revision you’d like to add a changelog for and click it (on the left)

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  • Click on the “Add changelog” link part way down

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  • Type your changelog and press “Save changes”

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  • It will now appear on the previous page.

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That’s the Good News.

The Bad News is I don’t think the changelog is exposed anywhere anymore.

The snapcraft API doesn’t seem to show it.

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Another one is this is just in this website. This can’t be set via snapcraft or anything similar, as much I found in my recent snapcraft PR, there was no such option that’ll add a release note to a snap revision.

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Thanks for the reply! May be an easier task to just expose it on the API then. Would be great if this could be discussed / implemented if there’s support for it internally.

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