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Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.16 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.16

The highlights in this release are:

• New variables available to be used within snapcraft.yaml and also exported in the environment during plugin runs: SNAPCRAFT_PROJECT_NAME, SNAPCRAFT_PROJECT_VERSION, SNAPCRAFT_PART_INSTALL (specific to the part where it is used) and SNAPCRAFT_STAGE (now also exported in the environment).
• snapcraft register --private can now be used to register private snaps.
• A grade of stable or devel can be set in snapcraft.yaml which would gate any accidental releases to the stable and candidate channels.
• snapcraft cleanbuild --debug will drop you in a shell if errors are encountered.
• Filesets can now recursively glob, allowing constructs like **/*.pyc
• The ant plugin now allows parameters.

This release has seen many contributions from outside of the snapcraft
core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here's a team
thank you for:

• Caio Begotti
• Evan Dandrea
• Loïc Minier
• Scott Moser

To consume the latest snapcraft release on Xenial Xerus (16.04), we
suggest you install the snapcraft package from the Ubuntu Archives:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapcraft

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.16

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io mailing list or directly in
the #snappy channel on irc.freenode.net.

To file bugs, please go to https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapcraft/+filebug.

Happy snapcrafting,
-- Sergio and the team