# Snapd Glib Updates This document describes the policy for updating the [snapd-glib package](https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/snapd-glib) in stable Ubuntu releases. [snapd-glib](https://github.com/snapcore/snapd-glib/) is a library to help client applications to communicate with snapd. It provides appropriate bindings for applications that use GLib, Qt or GObject bindings. As the snapd project is continuously updated, snapd-glib is also continuously updated to enable new features. snapd-glib is designed to be both API and ABI compatible with older releases so these updates can be rolled out. ## SRU Process - A new feature is added to snapd and this is updated into Ubuntu ([process](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/SRU/reference/exception-Snapd-Updates.md#reference-exception-snapdupdates)). - Changes are made to snapd-glib with automated unit tests. - Changes are tested on landing using a continuous integration system (Travis). - A tagged release of snapd-glib is made - this is manually confirmed to be working at release time. - The current development Ubuntu release is updated. - snapd-glib is updated in the Ubuntu development release. - A bug is opened for each release and contains instructions on what to smoke test (i.e. the reverse dependencies of snapd-glib). - Bugs are opened for specific features/bugfixes that have been backported to stable Ubuntu releases. These bugs contain testing instructions as per the usual SRU [StableReleaseUpdates](https://documentation.ubuntu.com/project/SRU/howto/standard.md#howto-perform-standard-sru) process. - Bugs are confirmed as per standard SRU process.