v2.0.0-rc.3 - 2023-09-15

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What to Check Out

Natural Slug Property

We implemented the natural_slug property on all BaseModel objects. A Natural Slug is a natural-key-derived, human-readable, automation-friendly representation of the object it references. It cannot be used to look up an object and is intended for a one-way "slug-ification" of the natural key.

IPAddressToInterface REST API Endpoint

With changing the IPAddress model's interface field from a ForeignKey to a ManyToManyField, the IPAddressToInterface model was introduced to track the many-to-many relationship between IPAddress and Interface (and VMInterface) objects. This model is now exposed via the REST API as a new endpoint. You can find more information about this endpoint in the auto-generated API documentation.

Added

• #3289 - Added documentation on factory data caching and generic filter tests.
• #3372 - Added documentation for migrating permission constraints.
• #3934 - Added Namespace column to VRFDeviceAssignmentTable and VRFPrefixAssignmentTable to display assigned VRFs' namespace property.
• #3934 - Added namespace attribute to rendering of "IP Addresses" columns of relevant Interface and InterfaceRedundancyGroup tables.
• #3934 - Added namespace attribute to rendering of primary_ip fields in DeviceDetailView and VirtualMachineDetailView.
• #3934 - Added hover copy button and functionality to primary_ip field in VirtualMachineDetailView.
• #4011 - Added redirect in new UI to legacy UI if the page being visited is not new UI ready.
• #4249 - Added REST API endpoint for the IPAddressToInterface model.
• #4249 - Added section on many-to-many relationships in the REST API overview docs.
• #4303 - Added documentation on identifying objects after the removal of slug fields.
• #4326 - Update documentation on Nautobot release workflow.
• #4346 - Implemented .natural_slug property on all models.

Changed

• #2821 - Adds navigation.footer to mkdocs features to enable navigation in the footer.
• #2821 - Updates installation documentation into a single path, using tabs for MySQL/PostgeSQL & Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL.
• #2821 - Removes centos.md and ubuntu.md as these are collapsed into single install_system.md file.
• #2821 - Updates docker-compose standalone to docker compose plugin to assist in development environment.
• #4012 - Disable non ready Model View in new-ui sidebar.
• #4015 - Refined new-UI IPAddress detail view.
• #4017 - Refined new-UI DeviceType detail view.
• #4017 - Moved object_type to the Advanced tab of new-UI detail views in general.
• #4019 - Refine new-ui Location Detail view.
• #4333 - Updated Dockerfile not to use Python virtual environment.
• #4338 - Updated GitHub CI integration workflow for Long-term maintenance branch.
• #4429 - Updated the pylint-nautobot migration steps.
• #4440 - Fixed an issues with ModelForm's that used __all__ on Meta.fields and custom_fields displayed a JSON blob.

Fixed

• #3934 - Fixed validation logic for VirtualMachine primary ips.
• #4010 - Fixed error not being raised when an invalid parent is provided to the IPAddress in both the API and ORM.
• #4293 - Fixed the issue of ObjectChange Detail View not rendering in the new UI.
• #4307 - Fixed incorrect hyperlinks that exist in the Notes and ChangeLog Tables in the ObjectDetailView of the new UI.
• #4329 - Fixed an issue in TreeNodeMultipleChoiceFilter filtering that could result in incorrect inclusion of unrelated records with the same name located elsewhere in the tree.
• #4377 - Fixed incorrect OpenAPI schema for filters available on Device and VirtualMachine REST API endpoints.
• #4377 - Fixed incorrect logic for queryset annotation on Device and VirtualMachine REST API views.
• #4388 - Fixed a bug that makes ConfigContexts applied to parent locations missing from rendered config context of child location Devices/Virtual Machines.
• #4407 - Fixed Dockerfile Node.js setup_XX.x deprecated script.

Housekeeping

• #4310 - Updated CI integration workflow to remove some redundant tests, run more tests in parallel and remove arm64 platform from the container build.
• #4311 - Updated CI pull request workflow for next branch to remove some redundant tests, run more tests in parallel and test the container build.
• #4409 - Updated upstream testing workflow for apps to test against LTM and 2.0 with ltm-1.6 and develop branch tags respectively.

Removed

• #3934 - Removed ip_family queryset annotation from PrefixQuerySet and IPAddressQuerySet.
• #4011 - Removed the "disable menu" feature for non-NewUI ready menu links in the sidebar and NavBar.
• #4015 - Removed tags, custom-fields, computed-fields, relationships from new-UI object detail
• #4017 - Removed notes_url from new-UI object detail views.

Security

• #3880 - Updated GitPython to 3.1.36 to address CVE-2023-41040.

Contributors

• @gsnider2195
• @HanlinMiao
• @glennmatthews
• @bryanculver
• @timizuoebideri1
• @DistantVoyager
• @snaselj
• @jvanderaa
• @itdependsnetworks
• @jathanism
• Ready Release 2.0.0-rc.3 by @bryanculver in Ready Release 2.0.0-rc.3 #4465

Full Changelog: v2.0.0-rc.2...v2.0.0-rc.3

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