Last Month in Nautobot – September 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
- Nautobot v2.0.0 released!
See the release notes for Nautobot v2.0.0. Some highlights are:
- Alpha UI 2.0
- Assign an IP Address to Multiple Interfaces
- Collapsed Region and Site Models into Location
- IPAM Namespaces
- Jobs Overhaul
- Revamped CSV Import and Export
And a lot more exciting new features! If you’re upgrading from Nautobot v1.x to v2.0.0, make sure to read the Upgrading Nautobot from v1.X to v2.0 documentation. If you have any custom plugins that need to be upgraded, refer to the Migrating apps from 1.x to 2.0 guide.
Nautobot v2.0.0 Supported Apps
- Nautobot Plugin BGP Models: v0.20.0 – 2023-09-29
- Nautobot Plugin Capacity Metrics:
- Nautobot Plugin ChatOps:
- Nautobot Plugin Circuit Maintenance: v2.0.0 – 2023-09-29
- Nautobot Plugin Data Validation Engine: v3.0.0 – 2023-09-29
- Nautobot Plugin Device Lifecycle Mgmt: v2.0.0 – 2023-09-30
- Nautobot Plugin Device Onboarding: v2.0.0 – 2023-09-29
- Nautobot Plugin Firewall Models:
- Nautobot Plugin Floor Plan: v2.0.0 – 2023-09-29
- Nautobot Plugin Golden Config: v2.0.0 – 2023-10-02
- Nautobot Plugin Nornir: v2.0.0 – 2023-10-01
- Nautobot Plugin Secrets Providers:
- Nautobot Plugin SSoT: v2.0.0 – 2023-10-05
Other Nautobot v2.0.0 Related Releases
- Nornir Nautobot: v3.0.0 – 2023-10-01
Releases – LTM 1.6
- v1.6.2 – 2023-09-05
- #3913 – Added
url
field to GraphQL objects. - #4316 – Added management command “nautobot-server populate_platform_network_driver” to help update the
Platform.network_driver
field in bulk. - #4216 – Changed the rendering of
TagFilterField
to prevent very slow rendering of pages when large numbers of tags are defined. - #4217 – Added a restriction that two Git repositories with the same
remote_url
cannot overlap in theirprovided_contents
, as such cases are highly likely to introduce data conflicts.
- #3913 – Added
Apps Ecosystem
- Nautobot Lab: 1.6.2 – 2023-09-27
- Updated to Nautobot v1.6.2.
- Added load-mock-data command.
- Nautobot Plugin BGP Models: v0.9.0 – 2023-09-27
- Nautobot Plugin Capacity Metrics:
- v2.1.0 – 2023-09-29
- v2.1.1 – 2023-09-29
- Added a metric for software version.
- Removed support for Python 3.7.
- Nautobot Plugin ChatOps:
- v2.0.3 – 2023-09-25
- v2.1.0 – 2023-09-29
- Fixed dependency resolution issues with latest release of golden config.
- Nautobot Plugin ChatOps Grafana: v1.1.0 – 2023-09-01
- Nautobot Plugin Circuit Maintenance: v1.0.1 – 2023-09-29
- Added drift management support.
- Removed support for Python 3.7.
- Nautobot Plugin Data Validation Engine: v2.2.0 – 2023-09-08
- Add supported for Nautobot v1.6 LTM which also removes support for Python 3.7.
- Nautobot Plugin Device Onboarding: v1.2.0 – 2023-09-05
- Nautobot Plugin Golden Config:
- v1.5.0 – 2023-09-01
- Added ability to update JSON based compliance via a job and have git integrations.
- Made custom compliance a boolean to support both JSON or CLI custom compliance types.
- Added metrics for Golden Config app.
- Added jinja settings support.
- v1.6.0 – 2023-09-15
- Remediation: Enhancement to the already powerful compliance engine, this feature creates the remediation plan to remediate an out of compliance configuration and bring it into compliance.
- Config plans: Create configuration plans based on multiple plan types to generate configurations based on manual input (with Jinja2), or directly from a already available compliance result, such as: remediation, intended, or missing.
- Config deployments: Deploy configurations to devices to remediate config drift and ensure compliance, while being flexible enough to handle ad-hoc configuration requirements.
- v1.6.1 – 2023-09-23
- v1.6.2 – 2023-09-28
- v1.5.0 – 2023-09-01
- Nautobot Plugin SSoT:
- v1.4.0 – 2023-09-08
- Collapsed individual SSoT apps to bring in Infoblox, Cisco ACI, Arista CloudVision, ServiceNow, and IP Fabric integrations.
- See this blog post for more information.
- v1.5.0 – 2023-09-19
- Removed support for Python 3.7.
- v1.6.0 – 2023-09-29
- Added Device42 integration.
- Several bug fixes in the ACI integration.
- v1.4.0 – 2023-09-08
- Nornir Nautobot: v2.6.1 – 2023-09-14
- Enabled threading option.
- Nornir Nautobot: v2.7.0 – 2023-09-22
- Added configuration deployment for Mikrotik RouterOS and Ruckus FastIron devices.
- Helm Charts: v2.0.4 – 2023-09-21
- Pylint Nautobot: v0.2.1 – 2023-09-18
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