canonical/snapcraft 2.19

Snapcraft 2.19 has been released

on GitHub

Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.19 of snapcraft has been tagged:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.19

Here's the list of features:

• The catkin plugin now support kinetic.
• The nodejs plugin can now make use of run commands.
• Build signing has now been implemented with a top-level sign-build command
• Support for gating and validating snaps has been added through the gated and validate commands.

The latter make use of all the assertions work that has been worked on on the snapd, snapcraft and store side.
As usual there are a handful of bugs fixed in the release which can be referred to on the milestone page.

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:

• Celso Providelo
• Chris Halse Rogers
• Roberto Alsina

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.19

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