Last Month in Nautobot – January 2025

Welcome to our monthly Nautobot community update! We’ll dive into the latest updates across the Nautobot community, 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

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Releases – Stable

• Nautobot: v2.4.1 – 2025-01-21
  • #6780 – Updated Django to 4.2.18 to address CVE-2024-56374.
  • Multiple bug fixes addressed in this release. See the release notes for the full list of changes.
• Nautobot: v2.4.0 – 2025-01-10
  • This is a summary of the features added in Nautobot v2.4. See the release notes for the full list of changes.
  • Nautobot 2.4 drops support for Python 3.8, so any existing Nautobot deployment using Python 3.8 will need to upgrade to a newer Python version before upgrading to Nautobot v2.4 or later.
  • Virtual Device Context Data Models added.
  • Wireless Data Models added.
  • Apps Marketplace Page added.
  • Nautobot now includes a general-purpose, extensible event publication framework for publication of event notifications to other systems such as Redis publish/subscribe, Kafka, syslog, and others.
  • Jinja2 Template Rendering Tool added.
  • Job authors can now set their jobs to only allow a single concurrent execution across all workers.
  • Users can now configure their preferred display time zone via the User Preferences UI under their user profile, and Nautobot will display dates and times in the configured time zone for each user.
  • REST API exclude_m2m parameter added.
  • UI Component Framework, a set of Python APIs for defining parts of the Nautobot UI without needing, in many cases, to write custom HTML templates.
  • Kubernetes Job Execution (Experimental).
  • Overhauled Job task queues to support Kubernetes jobs.
• Nautobot: v2.3.16 – 2025-01-06
  • #5805 – Enabled extended filter lookup expressions of the serial filter for Device, Rack, and InventoryItem.
  • Multiple bug fixes and performance improvements. See the release notes for the full list of changes.
• Nautobot: v2.3.15 – 2025-01-02
  • #6695 – Updated dependency Jinja2 to ~3.1.5 to address CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326.
  • #6410 – Added PUBLISH_ROBOTS_TXT configuration setting, defaulting to True.

Releases – LTM 1.6

• Nautobot: v1.6.30 – 2025-01-06
  • #6695 – Updated dependency Jinja2 to ~3.1.5 to address CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326.

Apps Ecosystem

• Nautobot App Device Lifecycle Mgmt: v2.2.1 – 2025-01-29
  • This version includes UI template updates, CVE status filter fixes, and adds Tags to APIs.
• Nautobot Ansible: v5.7.0 – 2025-01-28
  • Added controller_managed_device_groups module.
  • Fixed module bay template device/module type identification.
  • Added software version module.
• Nautobot App Floor Plan: v2.6.0 – 2025-01-24
  • Added the ability to generate custom labels with custom ranges.
  • Added optional upper constraint for x or y size of a floor plan.
• Nautobot App Device Onboarding: v4.2.0 – 2025-01-17
  • Multiple features and bug fixes. See the full release notes for more details.
• Pynautobot: v2.5.0 – 2025-01-17
  • Fixed choices for Nautobot v2.4.
• Nautobot App Circuit Maintenance: v2.3.1 – 2025-01-17
  • #323 – Added retry logic to GoogleAPI execution.
• Nautobot App Firewall Models: v2.2.1 – 2025-01-16
  • #269 – Removed the filter_address method from IPRangeFilterSet to resolve issues with searching for IPRange objects through the GUI and API.
• Nautobot App SSoT: v3.4.0 – 2025-01-15
  • This release adds two new integrations to the project, one for Solarwinds Orion and one for LibreNMS! There are also a lot of bug fixes for various integrations.
• Helm Charts: v2.4.3 – 2025-01-10
  • Upgraded Nautobot from 2.3.13 to 2.3.16.
  • Upgraded Bitnami common subchart from 2.28.0 to 2.29.0.
• Nautobot Ansible: v5.6.0 – 2025-01-09
  • Upgraded Ansible and Python versions.
• Cookiecutter Nautobot App: nautobot-app-v2.4.1 – 2025-01-07 
• Nautobot 2.4 Webinar On-Demand

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