v2.4.0 - 2025-02-21

What's Changed

v2.4 Release Notes

This document describes all new features and changes in the release.

Release Overview

• Add the first iteration of Config Plans that support post processing functionality.
  • Provides the ability to view and approve config plans with post processing functions.
  • Adds a pre deployment method to render the post processed config before deploying to network devices.
• Fixes multiple permissions in the application views.
• Drop Python 3.8 support.
• Changed supported Nautobot to 2.4.2.
• Updated nautobot-plugin-nornir dependency minimum to 2.2.1.
• Changed multiple detail views to use new component UI functionality.

v2.4.0 (2025-02-20)

Added

• #875 - Added Config Plan Post Processing to Config plan detail view.
• #875 - Added Config plan post processing to configuration deployment stage.
• #875 - Drop Python 3.8 support.

Changed

• #866 - Changed compliance_feature, compliance_rule, config_remove, config_replace, and config_remediation detail views to new component UI.
• #866 - Changed the supported Nautobot to 2.4.2.

Fixed

• #706 - Fixed filtering when using a dynamic group of groups
• #781 - Fixed UniqueViolation error when applying migration 0029 with multiple config plans sharing same device, date and plan_type.
• #846 - Fixed missing provides content check for GC settings syncing from Git Repo.
• #863 - Updated the queryset altering to be after permissions restriction for config compliance list view.
• #863 - Updated the queryset before rendering the compliance reporting to be after permissions restriction.

Housekeeping

• #809 - Added management command generate_app_test_data to generate sample data for development environments.
• #890 - Added upper bound for Nautobot version so that Nautobot does not get upgraded automatically to an unsupported version.

New Contributors

• @johanek

Full Changelog: v2.3.0...v2.4.0

v2.3.0 - 2025-02-03

v2.3.0 (2025-02-03)

• Added a branch parameter to the "Generate Intended Config" view.
• Fixed some bugs in the UI for device compliance and config compliance views.

Added

• #828 - Added branch parameter to generate intended config view.

Changed

• #860 - Added a scroll bar and maximum height to the "Configuration" text boxes on the device configuration compliance tabs.

Fixed

• #812 - Fixed a bug in the config compliance list view when customizing the table columns.

Housekeeping

• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.4.1.
• #873 - Fixed failing tests in Nautobot v2.3.11 and higher.
• #857 - Fixed installation docs to make clear that configurations are sample configurations.

Contributors

• @itdependsnetworks
• @justinbrink
• @gsnider2195

New Contributors

• @justinbrink made their first contribution in #861

Full Changelog: v2.2.2...v2.3.0

v2.2.2

v2.2.2 (2024-12-17)

Added

• #840 - Added GraphQL output to the "Generate Intended Config" view.
• #841 - Added GraphQL query form field to the "Generate Intended Config" view.
• #844 - Added a diff output to the "Generate Intended Config" view and associated REST API.

Fixed

• #849 - Fixed failing tests in Nautobot v2.3.13.

Full Changelog: v2.2.1...v2.2.2

v2.2.1

v2.2.1 (2024-11-27)

Added

• #827 - Added a web ui for Jinja template developers to render intended configurations.

Fixed

• #831 - Resolved issue with tests failing in Nautobot 2.3.11.
• #835 - Resolved error when accessing the Golden Config Settings list view in Nautobot v2.3.11 and higher.

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v2.2.1

v2.2.0

v2.2 Release Notes

This document describes all new features and changes in the release. The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Release Overview

• Added Python 3.12 support.
• Added REST API endpoint for Jinja as first part of journey towards a jinja live editor.

v2.2.0 (2024-11-04)

Added

• #803 - Added Python 3.12 support.
• #824 - Added a REST API endpoint for Jinja template developers to render intended configurations from templates in an arbitrary git repository.

Changed

• #814 - Changed the Git commit message of GC Jobs to be configurable.

Fixed

• #743 - Fixed improperly rendered panels in device and location views.
• #810 - Fixed custom compliance to work with non-string objects.

Housekeeping

• #0 - Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.4.0.
• #803 - Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.3.2.
• #823 - Changed model_class_name in .cookiecutter.json to a valid model to help with drift management.
• #824 - Updated multiple tests to use the faster setUpTestData instead of setUp. Fixed incorrect base class on ConfigPlanTest.

New Contributors

• @emdeefive made their first contribution in #819

Full Changelog: v2.1.2...v2.2.0

v2.1.2

Fixed

• #792 - Fixed issue with dynamic groups not being called in 2.3.0.
• #800 - Fixed issue where compliance amongst other fields were not being updated when Django 4.2 was installed.

Changed

• #792 - Added an experimental _manual_dynamic_group_mgmt config to collect feedback on appropriate methodology, use at your own risk!!.

Housekeeping

• #786 - Fixed incorrect test data setup for test_tags_filter() test for ConfigPlanFilterTestCase.
• #788 - Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.3.0.

Full Changelog: v2.1.1...v2.1.2

v1.6.6

Fixed

• #787 - Allow version 7 of deepdiff.

Full Changelog: v1.6.5...v1.6.6

v2.1.1

v2.1.1

Fixed

• #773 - Fixed deepdiff dependency range.

Dependencies

• #769 - Updated django-pivot to ~1.9.0.

Documentation

• #771 - Updated navigation tree for documentation updates for 2.1 release notes and XML compliance.
• #775 - Add FAQ for deepdiff and numpy dependency issue.
• #776 - Updated app config and urls config for providing link to documentation.

Housekeeping

• #769 - Added view tests for ConfigComplianceUIViewSet.

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.1.1

v2.1.0

v2.1 Release Notes

• Added support for XML Compliance.
• Hide Compliance tab if no compliance result exists.

Added

• #1501 - Add Support for XML Compliance

Fixed

• #723 - Hide compliance tab in device view if no compliance results exist.

Full Changelog: v2.0.5...v2.1.0

v2.0.5

Fixed

• #759 - Fix issue with Git Repo not syncing by changing to explicitly use class_path property.

Full Changelog: v2.0.4...v2.0.5