Release 2.4.0

[tobiasge]

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New Behavior

• Release 2.40

Contrast to Current Behavior

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Discussion: Benefits and Drawbacks

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Proposed Release Note Entry

Noteworthy Changes

Update postgres Docker tag to v15 #865

Our docker-compose file was updated to use PostgreSQL 15.

Note that you will need to take manual action after you upgrade a live PostgreSQL database.
If your database is not too big, a full backup (with PostgreSQL 14, i.e. before the upgrade) and restore (with a clean PostgreSQL 15, i.e. after the upgrade) is probably the easiest to achieve. Our troubleshooting wiki page has instructions on how to backup and restore a Netbox database. Please test the procedure on a test system first!

Note that there is no requirement to update to PostgreSQL 15, you can stick to version 14 just fine. You could do this with a docker-compose.override.yml like so:

version: '3.4'
services:
  postgres:
    image: postgres:14-alpine

Added settings for CA certificates for LDAP #895

The new settings LDAP_CA_CERT_* can now be configured in environment variables

Optimize psycopg2 dependency #894

We install only one version of psycopg2

Startup scripts complete removal #893

All warnings regarding the old startup scripts were removed

Make nginx-unit listen on IPv4 and IPv6 #889

The container can now be used with IPv6.

Housekeeping var name fix #883

This fixed a bug were the housekeeping job was not run in the correct interval

Add requirements for SAML SSO #876

All Python requirements for SAML authentication are now installed per default

Address housekeeping traceback #866

This changes the startup order of the containers in the example compose file, which prevents a crash in the housekeeping job when the database was not yet initialised

Updates the configuration, changes default for dynamic parameters to None #857

All dynamic parameters can now be set correctly in the Netbox GUI when they aren't defined in environment variables.

Define a volume for the caching Redis #852

To prevent docker from creating new random volumes every time the containers are started, we now define a fixed volume for both Redis containers.

add JOBRESULT_RETENTION to configuration.py #840

JOBRESULT_RETENTION can now be set from an environment variable

Compatibility

This version of NetBox Docker is only compatible with NetBox v3.4.x and above.
For older versions, use a previous release of NetBox Docker.

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[cimnine]

Thank you for bundling the release

[tagur87]

Is it possible to also update nginx-unit to 1,29 in this release? It includes a fix we need for large header size.

nginx/unit@edd7eba

Ref: #875

[tobiasge]

Is it possible to also update nginx-unit to 1,29 in this release? It includes a fix we need for large header size.

nginx/unit@edd7eba

Ref: #875

An update to Nginx Unit will need more testing. As of now the new release is not yet on their Ubuntu package mirror, so it will have to wait.

[tagur87]

Thanks @tobiasge!

Looks like it's available now on ubuntu mirror.

Can you assist in getting this released? Or should I create an issue?

/# apt install unit=1.29.0-1~jammy
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  unit
...
Unpacking unit (1.29.0-1~jammy) ...
Setting up unit (1.29.0-1~jammy) ...

[tobiasge]

I already started with some test but ran into an issue with our configuration files, thats new in 1.29 vs some tests with 1.28.
You can follow that here.

[tagur87]

Thanks Tobias,

I see that they have found a commit that causing the issue. Are we going to need to wait for another release of unit? Or is it something that can be patched in this repo?