Last Month in Nautobot – August 2023

Welcome to our monthly Nautobot community update! We’ll dive into the latest updates across the Nautobot community each month, highlighting the key milestones, releases, and noteworthy contributions. From new features and enhancements to bug fixes and events, there’s always something happening in our dynamic ecosystem. Open source is at the core of our values, empowering individuals and organizations to collaborate, innovate, and make a positive impact together. This monthly blog post is our way of celebrating the accomplishments and contributions of our Nautobot community members.

Nautobot Core

Releases – Stable

• v1.6.0 – 2023-08-08
  • Added caching of Dynamic Groups and Content Types
  • Added Interface Redundancy Group model
  • Added installation metrics
  • network_driver field added to Platform model
• v1.6.1 – 2023-08-21
  • Fixed dependencies required for saml support missing in final docker image
  • Fixed a bug that prevented renaming a Rack if it contained any devices whose names were not globally unique
  • Added a timeout and exception handling to the nautobot-server send_installation_metrics command

Releases – Development 2.0

• v2.0.0-rc.1 – 2023-08-18
  • First release candidate for Nautobot 2.0 – (docs)
  • Nautobot 2.0 Features & Impact video (YouTube)
• v2.0.0-rc.2 – 2023-08-24
  • Added support for multi-column keys for CSV Import
  • Fixed remaining filters
  • All breaking changes for 2.0 have been made
  • Renamed JobView to JobRunView and JobDetailView to JobView.
  • Rename url lookups job to job_run_by_class_path and job_detail to job.
  • Removed /extras/jobs/results/<uuid:pk>/ URL endpoint.

Apps Ecosystem

• Nautobot Ansible:
  • v4.4.0-2 – 2023-08-11 – Now published to Ansible Galaxy
  • v4.5.0 – 2023-08-18
    • Fixes device interface status bug
    • Adds parent_interface & bridge options to device_interface
    • Fixes graphql inventory grouping by tags
• Nautobot Lab: 1.6.0 – 2023-08-12
  • Resolve Nautobot 1.6.0 build issues
• Nautobot Plugin BGP Models: v0.8.0 – 2023-08-24
  • Dropping Python 3.7 support
• Nautobot Plugin Capacity Metrics:
  • V3.0.0-beta.1 – 2023-08-17
    • Compatibility testing with Nautobot v2
  • v3.0.0-rc.2 – 2023-08-25
    • Support for Nautobot v2.0.0rc1
• Nautobot Plugin ChatOps:
  • v2.0.0 – 2023-08-03
    • Has the details of the major changes to ChatOps
  • v2.0.1 – 2023-08-08
  • v2.0.2 – 2023-08-11
• Nautobot Plugin ChatOps Panorama: v1.2.0 – 2023-08-21
  • Fixed Plugin unable to access Panorama’s managed devices
  • Add Support for Device Groups
• Nautobot Plugin Data Validation Engine: v2.1.1 – 2023-08-22
  • Fix for unique validation bug during object edit
• Nautobot Plugin Device Lifecycle: v1.3.2 – 2023-08-02
  • Changes listed in v1.3.1
• Nautobot Plugin Golden Config: v1.4.2 – 2023-08-26
• Nautobot Plugin Nornir: v1.0.1 – 2023-08-27
• Nautobot Plugin SSoT:
  • v2.0.0-beta.2 – 2023-08-16
    • Added Cisco ACI, Arista CloudVision, and ServiceNow integrations
    • Updated Cisco ACI, Arista CloudVision, and ServiceNow integrations to work with Nautobot 2.0
    • Fixed Infoblox assignment of VRFs to Prefixes
  • v2.0.0-rc.1 – 2023-08-25
    • Update for Nautobot 2.0.0.rc1 Support
• Nornir Nautobot:
  • v2.5.0 – 2023-08-02
  • v2.6.0 – 2023-08-10
    • Changes backup_file to be conditional
    • Adds merge_config method
• Pynautobot: v2.0.0-rc.1 – 2023-08-21
  • Add support for Nautobot 2.0.0-rc.1

Community

• Upgrade Nautobot Python Version in Virtual Machine
• Nautobot Environment File

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