NAV 5.7.0

[5.7.0] - 2023-09-07

Added

• Even more complex and flexible configuration of NAV logging is now supported through logging.yml (#2659)
• Added howto guide for log configuration (#2660)
• Currently non-functional (aka. "blacklisted") alert sender mechanisms are now flagged in the Alert Profiles tool wherever an affected alert address is displayed (#2653, #2664, #2677, #2678)
• Added support for polling and alerting on Juniper chassis and system alerts (#2358, #2388)
  • Juniper only provides alert counters via SNMP, no alert details, unfortunately.
  • Since NAV doesn't support alert state updates, a new eventengine plugin handles alert count transitions by resolving old alerts and creating new ones (#2432, #2519)
• Added a new contains_address filter to the prefix API endpoint, to enable lookup of matching prefix/vlan details from a single IP or subnet address (#2577, #2578)
• Defined and added abstract methods for Power-over-Ethernet configuration to PortAdmin management handler classes (#2636)
  • These are needed for the upcoming vendor specific implementations of PoE config in PortAdmin.
• Implemented configuration file parsing for upcoming local JWT token feature (#2568)

Fixed

User-visible fixes

• Properly dispose of outgoing alert notifications to invalid alert addresses (#2661)
• Fixed crash when attempting to log device errors with an empty comment in the Device History tool (#2579, #2580)
• Fixed bad styling and missing linebreaks in traceback section of the 500 error page (#2607, #2628)
• Show help text instead of error when running nav command without arguments (#2601, #2603)
• Prevent users from entering invalid sysObjectID values when editing Netbox types in SeedDB (#2584, #2566)
• Removed upper version bound for Pillow image manipulation library, to fix security warnings (#2567)
• Alerts that cannot be sent due to blacklisted media plugins will no longer fill up alertengine.log every 30 seconds, unless DEBUG level logging is enabled (#1787, #2652)
• DNS lookups in ipdevinfo are now properly case insensitive (#2615, #2650)
• Alert Profiles will now properly require Slack alert addresses to be valid URLs (#2657)
• 5 minute and 15 minute load average values will now be collected correctly for Juniper devices (#2671, #2672)
• Fix cabling API, which broke due to internal refactorings (#2621)
• Only install NAV's custom epollreactor2 in ipdevpoll if running on Linux (#2503, #2604)
  • Stops ipdevpoll from crashing on BSDs.

Developer-centric fixes

• Moved more of NAV's packaging definition to pyproject.toml (#2655)
• Pin pip to version 23.1.0 for CI pipelines to continue working (#2647)
• Improve ipdevpoll logging of SQL queries and from Twisted library (#2640)
• Stop making skipped validation tests for non HTML content (#2623)
• Version-locked indirect dependencies of test suites (#2622, #2617)
• Improve SNMP forwarding/proxying container setup, including adding IPv6 support (#2637, #2516)
• Documented a recipe for establishing SNMP tunnels when testing devices on otherwise unreachable networks (#2426, #2435)
• Run Django development web server in "insecure" mode to improve simulation of a production environment when debug flag is turned off (#2625)
• Added a proper docstring to bootstrap_django() function (#2619, #2168)
• Stop restoring stale tox environment caches in GitHub workflows (#2605)
• Added tests for ipdevpoll worker euthanization (#2599, #2548)
• Added tests to ensure snmptrapd can properly look up a NAV router that sends traps from one of its non-management IP addresses (#2500, #2510)
• Avoid redundant graphite time formatting strings by re-using constant (#2588, #2543)
• Make detection of running in a virtualenv more compatible with modern toolchain (#2573)
• Revert to having tox run its own dependency installer (#2572)
• Added explicit back-relation names for several Django ORM models (#2544, #2546, #2547, #2549, #2550, #2551)