v2.0.0-rc.4 - 2023-09-27

[HanlinMiao]

What's Changed

Added

• #3303 - Added additional section headers to the Release Overview of Nautobot 2.0 release notes.
• #3303 - Added TODO comments for each additional section header.
• #3689 - Added namespace diagram to docs.
• #4103 - Added UI viewset for detail/list/import/export views of IPAddressToInterface objects.
• #4301 - Added missing and good-to-have information in the app migration guide.
• #4418 - Added netutils_parser to network_driver.
• #4425 - Added BaseModelSerializer.determine_view_options() API for use in new UI.
• #4425 - Added option for individual model serializers to override the default contents of the Advanced tab in the new UI.
• #4425 - Added option for individual model serializers to define additional tabs in the new UI and the fields included in such tabs.
• #4426 - Added the ability to specify one or more content types to the fix_custom_fields management command.
• #4434 - Implemented ObjectList view filters in FiltersPanelContent component of the new UI.
• #4459 - Added more re-exports to the nautobot.apps namespace.
• #4462 - Added FilterSet data to REST API metadata.
• #4474 - Added live search of q filter to list and detail views.
• #4476 - Added /api/extras/jobs/<name>/... REST API endpoints as an alternative option to the existing /api/extras/jobs/<uuid>/... endpoints.
• #4477 - Added the slugify Django template tag as a Jinja filter.
• #4490 - Added additional information to the release-notes and other documentation about the revamped CSV import/export feature.
• #4491 - Added documentation to Nautobot 2.0 release notes Release Overview for removal of manage.py.
• #4491 - Added documentation to Nautobot 2.0 release notes Release Overview for change of ChangedLoggedModel.created field from DateField to DateTimeField.
• #4493 - Added release-note overview of alpha 2.0 UI.
• #4507 - Added Data Validation Engine to list of apps in docs.
• #4524 - Added test_notes_url_functionality test case to APIViewTestCases.NotesURLViewTestCase generic test class.
• #4524 - Added optional api parameter to NotesMixin.get_notes_url() model method.

Changed

• #2472 - Added tagged_vlans and untagged_vlan as selected/prefetched in (VM)Interface API views.
• #2472 - Added ip_addresses as prefetched in VMInterface API views.
• #4014 - Refine Prefix List and Detail Views in new UI.
• #4367 - Changed CSV export to use multi-column natural keys for related models instead of composite-keys.
• #4367 - Changed natural_key_field_names for Prefix from ["namespace", "prefix"] to ["namespace", "network", "prefix_length"]
• #4420 - Updated jobs migration docs to reflect alternate method of job params migration.
• #4425 - Refined layout of new-UI Device detail view, including addition of "Virtual Chassis" tab.
• #4425 - Moved logic deriving list and detail view schemas for new UI from a serializer from nautobot.core.api.metadata to nautobot.core.api.serializers.
• #4425 - Changed new-UI detail-view schema construction to automatically include comments and tags fields (if present) in the appropriate location to avoid needing every serializer to specify these fields in its configuration.
• #4425 - Refined the structure of new-UI detail-view and list-view schemas.
• #4426 - Changed fix_custom_fields to skip models without any custom fields.
• #4462 - Updated new UI to use REST API FilterSet metadata to populate filter form.
• #4493 - Reordered overview items in the 2.0 release-notes.

Dependencies

• #4418 - Dependency netutils updated to ^1.6.0.
• #4538 - Updated npm dependencies via npm update.

Fixed

• #4033 - Fixed filtering objects in bulk edit and bulk delete.
• #4327 - Fixed a case where an ObjectChange would not be created when making an M2M change via the ORM.
• #4327 - Fixed an error when trying to send a Webhook after all ObjectChanges for an object had been deleted/pruned.
• #4327 - Fixed a case where a JobHook would not be sent when making an M2M change after all existing ObjectChanges for the object had been deleted/pruned.
• #4396 - Fixed rack form silently dropping custom field values.
• #4416 - Fixed a bug that raises CablePath matching query does not exist exception when deleting a device with multiple types of connected interfaces.
• #4426 - Fixed a potential out-of-memory issue when running nautobot-server fix_custom_fields on large datasets.
• #4430 - Fixed VLAN form missing VLAN Group.
• #4469 - Fixed issue that resulted in stacktrace if no model docs and dunder str was not resolvable.
• #4469 - Fixed alter_queryset not being respected by list views based on NautobotUIViewSet.
• #4473 - Fixed a bug that stripped any tags field from Job input forms.
• #4487 - Fixed general UI layout sizing and spacing.
• #4503 - Fixed a bug that stripped any tags field from DynamicGroup filter options in DynamicGroupEditForm.
• #4510 - Fixed placeholder values being present in new UI.
• #4514 - Fixed an issue with alter_queryset not being called when constructing a table.
• #4524 - Fixed incorrect implementation of test_notes_url_on_object test case that never actually tested anything.
• #4524 - Fixed incorrect permissions enforcement on REST API /notes/ action endpoints.
• #4524 - Fixed an exception in REST API /notes/ action endpoints that was inadvertently introduced in Fix #4476 - add /api/extras/jobs/NAME/ REST API endpoints #4517.
• #4535 - Fixed off-by-one error in new UI date processing.

Housekeeping

• #4479 - Configured npm in Docker image to use 30s timeout, pinned npm to 9.X, and changed Docker build to use npm ci instead of npm install to improve builds.

Removed

• #4301 - Removed references to RoleModelSerializerMixin, RoleRequiredRoleModelSerializerMixin and RoleSerializerField from generic Role-related documentation.
• #4425 - Removed composite key from new UI object-detail "Advanced" tab.
• #4448 - Removed composite key from user-facing interfaces (API, UI).
• #4538 - Removed unnecessary dependency on semver npm package.

Security

• #4500 - Updated cryptography to 41.0.4 due to GHSA-v8gr-m533-ghj9. This is not a direct dependency so will not auto-update when upgrading. Please be sure to upgrade your local environment.

Contributors

• @gsnider2195
• @HanlinMiao
• @itdependsnetworks
• @snaselj
• @smk4664
• @norbert-mieczkowski-codilime
• @glennmatthews
• @joewesch
• @bryanculver
• @DistantVoyager
• @u1735067
• @timizuoebideri1
• @jathanism

Full Changelog: v2.0.0-rc.3...v2.0.0-rc.4

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