Snapcraft 8.12 release notes

4 September 2025

Learn about the new features, changes, and fixes introduced in Snapcraft 8.12.

Requirements and compatibility

See System requirements for information on the minimum hardware and installed software.

What’s new

Snapcraft 8.12 brings the following features, integrations, and improvements.

New metadata linter

A new linter is available to help identify problems in a project’s metadata keys. If your project has a stable grade, the linter warns you if the title, contact, or license keys are missing or malformed. Likewise, if the donation, issues, source-code, or website keys are missing or malformed, the linter logs it.

See Ignore specific keys of the metadata linter for guidance on customizing the behavior of this linter.

Minor features

Remote builds: --build-for and shorthand platforms

Previously, the remote builder couldn’t accept the --build-for argument when building