Dear Snapd Community,
We’re pleased to share that snapd 2.74.1 snap is available for testing in the candidate channel.
Overview
Snapd 2.74.1 delivers TPM-backed Full Disk Encryption (FDE) to Resolute (26.04). It includes the content of 2.74 that was not released.
- Delivers TPM-backed full-disk encryption (FDE) with support for third-party NVIDIA kernel modules in Resolute for Classic Hybrid systems (Classic Ubuntu with Kernel and Gadget snaps)
- Bug fixes and robustness improvements
- Interface additions supporting new and emerging use cases
- Additions for other work-in-progress features, including:
- Confdb and related remote device-management capabilities
- AppArmor prompting for camera access
Notable updates
- FDE: reuse preinstall check context during install to account for user-ignored errors (LP: #2141328)
- FDE: fix db updates by allowing multiple payloads (LP: #2139611)
- snap-confine: add CAP_SYS_RESOURCE to allow raising memory lock limit when required (LP: #2139300)
- snap-confine: bump the max element count of the BPF map used to store IDs of allowed/matched devices to 1000 (LP: #2139099)
- Desktop: revert change that caused user daemons declaring the desktop plug to implicitly depend on graphical-session.target (LP: #2141607)
- Preseeding: add support for preseeding of hybrid systems via the installer API (LP: #2116949)
- snap: add support for ‘snap refresh --tracking’ (LP: #2068493)
- snap-confine: handle potential race when creating /tmp/snap-private-tmp when lacking systemd-tmpfiles support (LP: #2134364)
For the release plan with the complete list of changes, please refer to the full release notes.
For an overview on TPM backed FDE for hybrid Ubuntu 25.10, see: TPM/FDE progress for Ubuntu 25.10. You are welcome to try it out for yourself using the Resolute Daily Installer Image.
Test Feedback
Feel free to provide your test feedback here or directly in Launchpad. To help fast track investigations please provide (1) details about the system, (2) snapd version(s) and (3) steps to reproduce the issue.
The next release, Snapd 2.75, is estimated to start on 16 March 2026 and be available by 24 April 2026.
We greatly appreciate your contributions and support!