Rockcraft 1.9.0 release notes¶

28 February 2025

Learn about the new features, changes, and fixes introduced in Rockcraft 1.9.0. 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 1.9.0 brings the following features, integrations, and improvements.

Remote build improvements¶

The remote-build command now displays builds that have been created but are still pending. Additionally, the Launchpad project can be specified through the new --project parameter.

Improved support for build-packages for cross-compilation¶

Rockcraft projects that perform cross-compilation can now declare packages of the target architecture in the build-packages key.

Documentation improvements¶

The terminology around the rockcraft.yaml project file has been cleaned up, and the Give Feedback button has been restored to its location at the the top of the page.

Contributors¶

We would like to express a big thank you to all the people who contributed to this release.

@bepri, @erinecon, @medubelko. and @s-makin.