I've been pretty quiet lately but that usually means a storm will follow. Over the past few weeks I've been working on some major new features for snapd, specifically for snap-confine.

If you happen to use Ubuntu Yakkety you may have seen an update to snap-confine 1.0.41. This update had a bit of a explosive impact as in certain circumstances, due to kernel changes, snaps would crash on startup. While we've fixed that particular issue there's a second issue lurking. If you happen to run into unexpected snap misbehaviour please hold on (rebooting helps, as a simple remedy) as a fix is coming up, hopefully today.

I will write more about what's new and hot and how it affects what can be done in snaps. Stay tuned :)