Track request for Snapcraft: 4.x

We would like to request a new track for Snapcraft to track 4.x releases: 4.x

Thanks in advance!

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I’m surprised to find snapcraft has no existing tracks.

Will 4.x releases of snapcraft be backward-incompatible with 3.x releases? (for example, a snapcraft.yaml file that builds with 4.x does NOT build with 3.x). Or, perhaps the other way around since you are creating the 4.x track presumably to allow users to stay on that while snapcraft 5.x gets published to latest - will 5.x have features of the data formats that are backward-incompatible?

What’s the (approximate) release schedule of snapcraft? (If you have a page documenting schedule or cadence I’m happy to go look at it).

  • Daniel

Yes. We will eventually release 5.x which will have some breaking changes. We intend to make a 4.x track available for affected users. I do not have a schedule/roadmap to share just yet.

Ok, thanks. +1 from me on creating this track.

(I’m aware major Snapcraft releases are not very common so a too-frequent release schedule is not an issue here).

  • Daniel
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+1 from me as well, this is necessary for the future functionality for snapcraft.

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Thanks! Track 4.x for snapcraft has been created and is now ready for use.

Cheers!

  • Daniel
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