Package "snapd"

  snapd (2.74.1+ubuntu25.10.4) questing; urgency=medium

   * New upstream release, LP: #2138629
    - FDE: secboot fixes
    - Security: CVE-2026-3888
    - Packaging: fix deb package version number
    - Packaging: fix autopkgtest failure to install spread
    - Packaging: revert dropping transitional packages

  snapd (2.73+ubuntu25.10) questing; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release, LP: #2132084
    - FDE: do not save incomplete FDE state when resealing was skipped
    - FDE: warn of inconsistent primary or policy counter
    - Confdb: document confdb in snapctl help messages
    - Confdb: only confdb hooks wait if snaps are disabled
    - Confdb: relax confdb change conflict checks
    - Confdb: remove empty parent when removing last leaf
    - Confdb: support parsing field filters
    - Confdb: wrap confdb write values under "values" key
    - dm-verity for essential snaps: add new naming convention for
      verity files
    - dm-verity for essential snaps: add snap integrity discovery
    - dm-verity for essential snaps: fix verity salt calculation
    - Assertions: add hardware identity assertion
    - Assertions: add integrity stanza in snap resources revisions
    - Assertions: add request message assertion required for remote
      device management
    - Assertions: add response-message assertion for secure remote
      device management
    - Assertions: expose WithStackedBackstore in RODatabase
    - Packaging: cross-distro | install upstream NEWS file into relevant
      snapd package doc directory
    - Packaging: cross-distro | tweak how the blocks injecting
      $SNAP_MOUNT_DIR/bin are generated as required for openSUSE
    - Packaging: remove deprecated snap-gdb-shim and all references now
      that snap run --gdb is unsupported and replaced by --gdbserver
    - Preseed: call systemd-tmpfiles instead handle-writable-paths on
      uc26
    - Preseed: do not remove the /snap dir but rather all its contents
      during reset
    - snap-confine: attach name derived from security tag to BPF maps
      and programs
    - snap-confine: ensure permitted capabilities match expectation
    - snap-confine: fix cached snap-confine profile cleanup to report
      the correct error instead of masking backend setup failures
    - snap-confine: Improve validation of user controlled paths
    - snap-confine: tighten snap cgroup checks to ensure a snap cannot
      start another snap in the same cgroup, preventing incorrect
      device-filter installation
    - core-initrd: add 26.04 ubuntu-core-initramfs package
    - core-initrd: add missing order dependency for setting default
      system files
    - core-initrd: avoid scanning loop and mmc boot partitions as the
      boot disk won't be any of these
    - core-initrd: make cpio a Depends and remove from Build-Depends
    - core-initrd: start plymouth sooner and reload when gadget is
      available
    - Cross-distro: modify syscheck to account for differences in
      openSUSE 16.0+
    - Validation sets: use in-flight validation sets when calling
      'snapctl install' from hook
    - Prompting: enable prompting for the camera interface
    - Prompting: remove polkit authentication when modifying/deleting
      prompting rules
    - LP: #2127189 Prompting: do not record notices for unchanged rules
      on snapd startup
    - AppArmor: add free and pidof to the template
    - AppArmor: adjust interfaces/profiles to cope with coreutils paths
    - Interfaces: add support for compatibility expressions
    - Interfaces: checkbox-support | complete overhaul
    - Interfaces: define vulkan-driver-libs, cuda-driver-libs, egl-
      driver-libs, gbm-driver-libs, opengl-driver-libs, and opengles-
      driver-libs
    - Interfaces: allow snaps on classic access to nvidia graphics
      libraries exported by *-driver-libs interfaces
    - Interfaces: fwupd | broaden access to /boot/efi/EFI
    - Interfaces: gsettings | set dconf-service as profile for
      ca.desrt.dconf.Writer
    - Interfaces: iscsi-initiator, dm-multipath, nvme-control | add new
      interfaces
    - Interfaces: opengl | grant read/write permission to /run/nvidia-
      persistenced/socket
    - interfaces: ros-snapd-support | add access to /v2/changes/
    - Interfaces: system-observe | read access to btrfs/ext4/zfs
      filesystem information
    - Interfaces: system-trace | allow /sys/kernel/tracing/** rw
    - Interfaces: usb-gadget | add support for ffs mounts in attributes
    - Add autocompletion to run command
    - Introduce option for disallowing auto-connection of a specific
      interface
    - Only log errors for user service operations performed as a part of
      snap removal
    - Patch snap names in service requests for parallel installed snaps
    - Simplify traits for eMMC special partitions
    - Strip apparmor_parser from debug symbols shrinking snapd size by
      ~3MB
    - Fix InstallPathMany skipping refresh control
    - Fix waiting for GDB helper to stop before attaching gdbserver
    - Protect the per-snap tmp directory against being reaped by age
    - Prevent disabling base snaps to ensure dependent snaps can be
      removed
    - Modify API endpoint /v2/logs to reject n <= 0 (except for special
      case -1 meaning all)
    - Avoid potential deadlock when task is injected after the change
      was aborted
    - Avoid race between store download stream and cache cleanup
      executing in parallel when invoked by snap download task
    - LP: #1851490 Use "current" instead of revision number for icons
    - LP: #2121853 Add snapctl version command
    - LP: #2127214 Ensure no more than one partition on disk can match a
      gadget partition
    - LP: #2127244 snap-confine: update AppArmor profile to allow
      read/write to journal as workaround for snap-confine fd
      inheritance prevented by newer AppArmor
    - LP: #2127766 Add new tracing mechanism with independently running
      strace and shim synchronization

 -- Ernest Lotter <email address hidden> Fri, 21 Nov 2025 09:08:02 +0200