Prepare 0.21.0

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Preliminary release notes

This PR should be merged as the last PR of the 0.21.0 milestone, just before the PR from develop to release is created.

Version 0.21.0

This release contains the following notable changes:

Compatibility with Netbox 2.7 #209

This project has been updated to work with Netbox 2.7.

Updates to our configuration.py file were necessary. This should not impact you if you upgrade from an earlier version of our project. But you will have the possibility to use separate Redis instances for caching and for the rqworker (i.e. webhooks delivery). The current Redis variables are used for the rqworker (i.e. REDIS_HOST, REDIS_PORT, etc.) and there are new variables for the cache (i.e. REDIS_CACHE_HOST, REDIS_CACHE_PORT, etc.). If the variables REDIS_CACHE_* are not defined the configuration file will fall back to the REDIS_* counterparts.

Please note that it is no longer possible to run Netbox without Redis. The variable WEBHOOKS_ENABLED was removed upstream.

Updates to the default startup scripts were necessary. If you have files in the initializers directory, be aware of the following breaking changes:

• initializers/custom_fields.yml: (see c001626)
  • the selection type was changed to select

   select_field:
  -   type: selection
  +   type: select
     label: Choose between items
     required: false
     filter_logic: exact
     weight: 30
     on_objects:
     - dcim.models.Device
     choices:
     - value: First Item
       weight: 10
     - value: Second Item
       weight: 20

• initializers/racks.yml (see 7b914d3)
  • Rack types must match one of the 5 rack types given, e.g. '4-post-cabinet'.
  • Rack width must match one of the 2 rack widths given, i.e. '19' or '23'.

   - site: AMS 2
     name: rack-02
     role: Role 2
  -   type: 4-post cabinet
  +   type: 4-post-cabinet
  -   width: 19 inches
  +   width: 19
     u_height: 47
     custom_fields:
       text_field: Description

• initializers/devices.yml (see 4a58676)
  • Make sure the rack face is spelled in all-lowercase characters.

   - name: server01
     device_role: server
     device_type: Other
     site: AMS 1
     rack: rack-01
  -   face: Front
  +   face: front
     position: 1
     custom_fields:
       text_field: Description

• initializers/vlans.yml (see 8d8b9a1)
  • Make sure the status is spelled in all-lowercase characters.

   - name: vlan1
     site: AMS 1
  -   status: Active
  +   status: active
     vid: 5
     role: Main Management
     description: VLAN 5 for MGMT

• initializers/prefixes.yml (see f3403cd)
  • Make sure the status is spelled in all-lowercase characters.

   - description: prefix1
     prefix: 10.1.1.0/24
     site: AMS 1
  -   status: Active
  +   status: active
     tenant: tenant1
     vlan: vlan1

• initializers/virtual_machines.yml (see f3403cd)
  • Make sure the status is spelled in all-lowercase characters.

   - cluster: cluster1
     comments: VM1
     disk: 200
     memory: 4096
     name: virtual machine 1
     platform: Platform 2
  -   status: Active
  +   status: active
     tenant: tenant1
     vcpus: 8
   - cluster: cluster1
     comments: VM2
     disk: 100
     memory: 2048
     name: virtual machine 2
     platform: Platform 2

• initializers/dcim_interfaces.yml
  • Make sure the type is a value out of the possible choices and is spelled in all-lowercase characters.
  • All possible choices are found in Netbox's dcim/choices.py

   - device: server01
     enabled: true
  -   type: Virtual
  +   type: virtual
     name: to-server02

• initializers/ip_addresses.yml
  • Make sure the status is spelled in all-lowercase characters.

   - address: 10.1.1.1/24
     device: server01
     interface: to-server02
  -   status: Active
  +   status: active
     vrf: vrf1

New Build System #214 #222

We've changed our build system once more. It is based on Github Actions now. This provides us more flexibility and hopefully more reliable feedback on pull requests.

Our users should benefit as well by having more reliable releases when a new version of Netbox is out.

The last benefit is that all build-related configurations are now in this repository. This means we can track changes and retrieve pull-requests on them. Additionally, forks get the same build-configuration as well.

Default branch is release

We have switched to a new branching model in the previous version of this project.
Thereby we changed the default branch to be the develop branch. This has led to some confusion. We are now changing the default branch back to the stable branch, i.e. release.

This is also due to the new build system (see above).

Compatibility

This version is compatible with Netbox 2.7.x (and hopefully later versions as well).

⚠️ This version is not compatible with Netbox 2.6.x or lower!

Known Issues

There are no known issues.