Snapcraft 2.17 has been released

Hello snapcrafters!

We are pleased to announce the release of version 2.17 of snapcraft:
https://launchpad.net/snapcraft/+milestone/2.17

The highlights in this release are:

• A python plugin rewrite, combining the python2 and python3 plugins into one. This new plugin creates
  leaner snaps, works better with regards to build environments, separates stage-packages from package brought
  in with pip and solves many latent bugs from the previous incantation of the python plugins.
• More assertion related goodies, snapcraft-register-key and snapcraft list-keys are new commands added
  to this release.
• The organize keyword for parts now supports globbing.

As usual there is a regular set of bugfixes in this release too. Those can be seen in the milestone referred to.

This release has seen many contributions from outside of the snapcraft
core team, so we want to give a shout out to these folks, here's a team
thank you for:

• Alexandre Abreu
• Colin Watson
• Sam Yaple

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

To get the source for this release check it out at
https://github.com/ubuntu-core/snapcraft/releases/tag/2.17

A great place to collaborate and discuss features, bugs and ideas on
snapcraft is snapcraft@lists.snapcraft.io 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