canonical/snapcraft 2.23

Snapcraft 2.23 has been released

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Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.23 of snapcraft has been released:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.23

Here's the list of features that you can find in this new release:

• General cache mechanism for future features that require it.
• Plumbing layer in place for pushing deltas instead of full sized snaps.
• Source management for parts is now in the core making it much more robust (and core).
• FTP is now a valid source.
• New command snapcraft enable-ci to make it easy for developers to enable continuous delivery when using travis for continuous integration to push to a store development channel.

Many minor fixes are available as well:

• The nodejs plugin now correctly manages run statements.
• The cmake plugin now includes the capabilities of the make plugin.
• The parts parser now supports remote dependencies correctly.
• build-packages are now apt marked as automatically installed.
• bash completion improvements when autocompleting commands that take snap files.
• Proper change tracking for all core properties of a part.
• Improved terminal support when TERM=dumb is set or not on a tty.
• Store error improvements for registering and login.

Some testing improvements have been made too:

• Migrated to testtools for more comprehensive test suites.
• Replaced subTests with testscenarios.
• Added tooling to build external snaps as part of our release process

This release has seen some 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
• Kelvin Li
• Kit Randel
• Larry Price
• Marco Trevisan
• Parameswaran Sivatharman

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.23

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io mailing list or on the snapcraft
channel on Rocket Chat https://rocket.ubuntu.com/channel/snapcraft

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

Happy snapcrafting!
-- Sergio and the team