Release notes: Snapcraft 4.8

The principle focus for Snapcraft 4.8 has been the removal of the experimental flag from package repositories, which has been completed.

For general details, including installation instructions, see Snapcraft overview, or take a look at Snapcraft release notes for other Snapcraft releases.

Package repositories

This feature is finally stable and is documented at Snapcraft package repositories.

Bug fixes

apt cache: improve error handling when packages do not have candidates available

project: validate snapcraft yaml before using it

ua manager: install ubuntu-advantage-tools as needed

build providers: set hostname for lxd

dotnet plugin: use https for release metadata url