Rockcraft 1.20 release notes¶

20 July 2026

Learn about the new features, changes, and fixes introduced in Rockcraft 1.20. For information about the Rockcraft release cycle, see the Release policy and schedule.

Requirements and compatibility¶

To run Rockcraft, a system requires the following minimum hardware and installed software. These requirements apply to local hosts as well as VMs and container hosts.

Minimum hardware requirements¶

AMD64, ARM64, ARMv7-M, RISC-V 64-bit, PowerPC 64-bit little-endian, or S390x processor
2GB RAM
10GB available storage space
Internet access for remote software sources and the Snap Store

Platform requirements¶

Platform	Version	Software requirements
GNU/Linux	Popular distributions that ship with systemd and are compatible with snapd	systemd

What’s new¶

Rockcraft 1.20 brings the following features, integrations, and improvements.

`ubuntu@26.10` base¶

Rockcraft now supports ubuntu@26.10 as a base. Since this version of Ubuntu is in development at the time of release, to select this base you must also set build-base: devel.

FIPS Pebble¶

When packing a rock with a FIPS Ubuntu Pro service, Rockcraft now includes a FIPS version of Pebble.

Documentation homepage¶

The Rockcraft homepage has been revamped to better reflect the content of the documentation.

Minor features¶

Rockcraft 1.20 brings the following minor changes.

Support for ARMv8 in 32-bit mode (armv8l)¶

Rockcraft no longer fails when the system is an ARMv8 running in 32-bit mode.

Documentation improvements¶

We’ve made improvements to the documentation:

Clarified the minimum version of LXD to pack Pro rocks.
Updated the tutorials to target base ubuntu@26.04.
Clarified the naming rules for platform keys.
Incorporated user feedback on the 12-factor reference pages.

Contributors¶

We would like to express a big thank you to all the people who contributed to this release.

@asanvaq, @bepri, @canon-cat, @cmatsuoka, @danielvnguyen, @erinecon, @Gargoth, @gcomneno, @jahn-junior, @lengau, @medubelko, @mr-cal, @NiShITa-code, @Pawansingh3889, @PraaneshSelvaraj, @smethnani, @steinbro, @TechWriterP, @tigarmo, @zhijie-yang, and @zlplzp123wyt.