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title: Blog posts tagged "feature"
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# Blog posts tagged "feature"

#### [Experimental feature: progressive releases](https://canonical.com/blog/experimental-feature-progressive-releases)

“No plan survives contact with the enemy.” This is a quote famously attributed to the Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke. It is also quite applicable to software development: “No code survives contact with the user.” In mission-critical environments, staggered deployments of software are a crucial part of controlled updates, design

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Cloud and server

#### [Experimental feature: snap refresh awareness and update inhibition](https://canonical.com/blog/experimental-feature-snap-refresh-awareness-and-update-inhibition)

We’d like to follow up on last week’s article about parallel installs for classic snaps with another bleeding-edge topic. Today, we will discuss snap refreshes. By design, snaps come with automatic updates, and by default, the update (refresh) frequency check is four times a day. Whenever new application versions are published, they soon

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Desktop