[mosquitto-dev] Snap package updates

[Roger Light <roger@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

For those of you using the Snap package version of Mosquitto at
https://snapcraft.io/mosquitto , there are some changes that may be of
interest.

Snaps have the concept of channels, which are a combination of a track
and a risk. The default track, and what Mosquitto has been using
exclusively up to now, is "latest", and the risk can be one of stable,
candidate, beta, and edge. The idea is that releases move gradually
from edge to stable, and users can choose which level of risk they are
happy with.

There are now a 1.5 and 1.6 track, both of which have the same set of
risks (Mosquitto only uses stable and edge). Each of those tracks will
stay with the 1.5.x and 1.6.x releases, so if you'd prefer to stay
with those releases then please switch to using that track.

To install for a specific channel:

sudo snap install --channel=1.5/stable mosquitto

To update your existing install to a new channel:

sudo snap refresh --channel=1.5/stable mosquitto

For the moment the latest/stable release is 1.5.8 and latest/edge is
1.6.2. I'll be pushing the button to promote 1.6.2 to latest/stable in
a week.

Regards,

Roger