NAV 5.10.2

Changed

• snmptrapd renamed to navtrapd to avoid naming conflicts with Net-SNMP programs (#2926)

Fixed

• Replace incorrect fix for premature ARP record closure introduced in 5.10.1 (#2910)

NAV 5.10.1

Fixed

• Fix Machine Tracker DNS search crashing from exhausting all available file descriptors (#2669)
• ARP records of unreachable devices are now closed by navclean cron job at configurable expiry intervals, rather than immediately as a response to a short ICMP packet loss (#2913)
• Palo Alto API XML responses are now parsed based on keys instead of indexes (#2924)

NAV 5.10.0

Removed

• Removed references to IRC support channel from documentation, as the channel is closing down (#2907)

Deprecated

• Support for Python versions older than 3.9 will be dropped in NAV 5.11.

Added

• New ipdevpoll plugin to fetch ARP cache data from Palo Alto firewall APIs (#2613)
• Introduced towncrier to aid in collaborative NAV changelog authoring (#2869)
• Add library utilities to produce QR codes to arbitrary URLs, for use in upcoming features (#2887)
• Added towncrier to automatically produce changelog

Changed

• Change the Docker Compose-based development environment to use more build caching and avoid running too many things as root (#2859)
• Changed required PostgreSQL version to 11

Fixed

• Avoid running command line scripts twice on every invocation (#2877, #2878)
• Fixed full-nav-restore.sh developer helper script that broke after Docker Compose development was reorganized (#2888)
• Fix missing delete icon in form selector labels (#2898)

NAV 5.9.1

[5.9.1] - 2024-03-15

Fixed

• Fixed broken navclean and navsynctypes scripts (#2875, #2874)

NAV 5.9.0

[5.9.0] - 2024-03-08

Added

• Added option to enable secure cookies in new web security section of webfront.conf (#2194, #2815)
• Made mod_auth_mellon (SAML) work for logins (#2740)
  • Also added howto for setting up mod_auth_mellon for Feide authentication.

Fixed

• Cycle session IDs on login/logout to protect against potential session fixation attacks (#2804, #2813, #2836, #2835)
• Flush sessions on logout (#2828)
• Prevent clickjacking attacks on NAV by disallowing putting NAV site in document frames (#2816, #2817)
• Cleaned up overview/intro docs (#2827)
• Various cleanups of the test suites:
  • Remove FakeSession redundancy (#2841, #2842)
  • Fixed activeipcollector get_timestamp function implementation and its broken timezone-naive test (#2831)
  • Fixed broken statemon tests (#2832)
  • Fixed warnings during integration tests (#2847, #2858)
  • Preserve 500-errors in webcrawler tests (#2861)
• Removed nonsensical pydantic requirement (#2867)
• Removed warnings when building docs (#2856)

Changed

• Modernize installation of NAV scripts/binaries using pyproject.toml (#2676, #2679)
• Changed the documentation theme from "Bootstrap" to "Read The Docs", as the Bootstrap theme was no longer being maintained. This also avoids unnecessary JavaScript libraries in the docs (#2805, #2825, #2824, #2834, #2837, #2833, #2853, #2868)
• Various changes needed to move NAV closer to being fully compatible with Python 3.11:
  • Replaced all uses of pkg_resources with importlib (#2791, #2798, #2799)
  • Upgraded Twisted to a version that supports Python 3.11 (#2792, #2796)
  • Upgraded psycopg to 2.9.9 (#2793, #2795)
  • Dropped code that was there to support Django's older than 3.2 (#2823)
  • Upgraded python-ldap from 3.4.0->3.4.4 (#2830)
  • Enabled running test suite on Python 3.10 by default (#2838)
  • Stopped running test suite on Python 3.8 by default (#2851)
  • Fixed invalid/deprecated backslash escapes in MIB dump files, as warned about in newer Python versions (#2846, #2848)
  • Fixed deprecation warning for Django 4.0 in test suite (#2844)
  • Removed an adaption to Pythons older than 3.7 (#2840)
  • Install Node/NPM in docker dev environment (#2855)
  • Vendor the PickleSerializer (#2866)

NAV 5.8.4

[5.8.4] - 2023-12-14

Fixed

• Allow admins to configure ports with invalid or unset native VLANs in PortAdmin (#2477, #2786)
• Fix bug that caused PoE config to be completely disabled for Cisco devices where at least one port did not support PoE (#2781)
• Fix PortAdmin save button moving around for ports without PoE support (#2782)
• Fix PortAdmin bug that prevented switching PoE state back and forth without reloading entire page (#2785)
• Fix regression that caused maintenance tasks to be un-editable (#2783, #2784)

NAV 5.8.3

[5.8.3] - 2023-12-01

Fixed

• Fix non-working SNMPv1 communication (#2772, #2779, #2780)

NAV 5.8.2

[5.8.2] - 2023-11-30

Fixed

• Fix broken "operate as user" function in User and API Administration tool (#2766, #2777)
• Fix crashing PDU widget (#2776)
• Fix bug that caused PortAdmin to stop working for Cisco switches (#2773, (#2774)

NAV 5.8.1

[5.8.1] - 2023-11-29

Fixed

• Constrain version of 3rd party module ciscoconfparse, in order to avoid NAV not working under Python 3.7 (#2770, #2771)
• Fix ipdevpoll crash error from using SNMP v2c profile example that came with NAV (#2767, #2768)
• Gracefully handle encoding errors in invalid sysname/IP input in SeedDB IP Device form (#2764)
• Gracefully handle errors from invalid profiles list input in SeedDB IP Device form (#2765)

NAV 5.8.0

[5.8.0] - 2023-11-24

Added

• Initial SNMPv3 support added to most parts of NAV
  • Add an SNMPv3 management profile type (#2693, #2699)
  • Add SNMPv3 session support to the synchronous SNMP libraries used by most parts of NAV except ipdevpoll (#2700, #2710)
  • Add SNMPv3 reachability tests in SeedDB IP Device registration forms (#2704, #2734, #2727, #2730)
  • Add SNMPv3 support to Portadmin (#2712, #2731)
  • Add SNMPv3 support to navsnmp command line program (#2724, #2725)
  • Add SNMPv3 support to Arnold (#2726, #2733)
  • Add SNMPv3 session support to ipdevpoll's asynchronous SNMP libraries (#2736, #2743)
  • Add SNMPv3 support tonavoidverify and naventity command line programs (#2747, #2748)
• Power-over-Ethernet configuration support for Cisco and Juniper equipment in PortAdmin (#2632, #2633, #2666, #2635, #2759)
• Extract VLAN association from router port names on Checkpoint firewalls (#2684, #2701)
• Add link to our GitHub discussion forums in "Getting help" documentation (#2746)
• Add subcommand to navuser command line program for deleting users (#2705)
• Add toggle in webfront.conf for automatic creation of remote users (#2698, #2707)
• Add proper documentation index page for all howto guides (#2716)
• Add description to threshold alarms (#2691, #2709)

Developer-centric additions

• Add tests for overview of alert profiles page (#2741)
• Add make rule for cleaning doc directory (#2717)
• Add an snmpd service container for SNMPv3 comms testing (#2697)

Fixed

• Improve validation of maintenance form input in order to avoid unintentional crash reports (#2757)
• Handle invalid alert profile ID form input without crashing (#2756)
• Prevent crash errors in esoteric situations where multiple dashboards have been erroneously marked as a user's default dashboard (#2680)
• Fix broken navoidverify command on Linux (#2737)
• Several regressions related to input validation in Alert Profiles were fixed:
  • Fix regression that prevented filter groups from being deleted from an alert profile (#2729)
  • Fix regression that prevented activation/deactivation of alert profiles (#2732)
  • Fix form validation with "equal" and "in" operators for adding expression with group to filter (#2750)
  • Add more expression operator tests for alert profiles and fix cleaning in ExpressionForm (#2752)

Developer-centric fixes

• Restructure alert profile tests (#2739)

Changed

• Allow write-enabled SNMP profiles to be used for reading when device has no read-only SNMP profiles (#2735, #2751)
• Improved howto guide for setting up remote user authentication using mod_auth_oidc (#2708)

Developer-centric changes

• Refactored web authentication code in preparation for future changes to authentication flow (#2706)

Removed

Developer-centric removals

• Remove remaining uses of Netbox.snmp_version (#2522)
• Remove unused function snmp_parameter_factory (#2753)
• Remove deprecated Netbox SNMP properties (#2754, #2761)