Rockcraft 1.7.0 release notes¶
20 December 2024
Learn about the new features, changes, and fixes introduced in Rockcraft 1.7.0. For information about the Rockcraft release cycle, see the Release policy and schedule.
Requirements and compatibility¶
To run Rockcraft, a system requires the following minimum hardware and installed software. These requirements apply to local hosts as well as VMs and container hosts.
Minimum hardware requirements¶
AMD64, ARM64, ARMv7-M, RISC-V 64-bit, PowerPC 64-bit little-endian, or S390x processor
2GB RAM
10GB available storage space
Internet access for remote software sources and the Snap Store
Platform requirements¶
Platform |
Version |
Software requirements |
|---|---|---|
GNU/Linux |
Popular distributions that ship with systemd and are compatible with snapd |
systemd |
What’s new¶
Rockcraft 1.7.0 brings the following features, integrations, and improvements.
Support for remote builds¶
We added support for remote builds, which leverage off-site compute for
building rocks and can build for multiple architectures with a single command.
For a description of the feature, see Remote builds, or run
rockcraft remote-build --help.
This feature is new and experimental – we welcome feedback on the Ubuntu Discourse forum.
Minor features¶
Rockcraft 1.7.0 brings the following minor changes.
init command¶
The default base of the project file generated by rockcraft init has been
updated from ubuntu@22.04 to ubuntu@24.04.
Rockcraft snap¶
The base of the Rockcraft snap was updated from core22 to core24.
Go extension¶
A new tutorial and reference are available for the go-framework extension.
OCI image configuration¶
When using run-user: _daemon_, the value of the Config.User key in the
generated rock has been updated from the user name (_daemon_) to its
numeric ID.
12-factor app extensions¶
We added support for Gunicorn async workers on the Django and Flask extensions.
12-factor app documentation¶
The documentation for the various 12-factor framework extensions has been updated for clarity and to better conform with documentation best practices.
Maven and Ant plugins¶
We changed the location of the Java runtime executable on rocks built using the
the Maven and Ant plugins from /bin/java to /usr/bin/java, as the
former conflicts with the user-merged Ubuntu base.
Fixed bugs and issues¶
The following issues have been resolved in Rockcraft 1.7.0:
Contributors¶
We would like to express a big thank you to all the people who contributed to this release.
@alithethird,
@dariuszd21,
@erinecon,
@javierdelapuente,
@lengau,
@linostar,
@tigarmo,
@vpa1977
and @yanksyoon.