In September 2020 I’d written an article Ubuntu Snap: the Price of the Isolation. One inconvenience with Snap was the updates mechanism: it was impossible to disable auto-updates and check for new versions of software by hands. The epic with updates in Snap finally has ended:
- August 15, 2022: the PR that allows to hold refreshes indefinitely for all the system’s snaps;
- November 15, 2022: it’s possible to disable auto-updates in Snap from the edge channel (here is the post in snapcraft blog);
- January 10, 2023: snapd 2.58 released, it’s possible to disable auto-updates in Snap from the stable channel.
It was a really long discussion since 2017.