ANN: snapcraft 2.7 is now available

[Sergio Schvezov]

Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.7 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.7
This release was mostly focused on fixing paper cuts, but the 2.7 is due to:

- Better support for pkg-config within installdir, the stage dir and
  the host.
- Support for library lookups from the host, this mainly allows to use
  `build-packages` again instead of `stage-packages` (development is now
  smoother and allows for faster iterations).
- The make plugin gained the ability to pass parameters to it.
- The copy plugin now supports the common `source` related keywords in
  the part definition.

Among the fixes that might interest you are:
- No longer allow invalid keywords in parts if the plugin does not
  define it in the schema.
- Better errors when talking to the store when not logged in.
- Improvements when cleaning an older snapcraft based project.

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

If you don't want to use the examples from the source branch you can
also install the examples package:

    sudo apt install snapcraft-examples

After installing this you can find them in
/usr/share/doc/snapcraft-examples/examples.

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.7

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snappy-app-devel 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

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