Releasing v25.7

.github/workflows/run_tests.yml

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
     strategy:
       matrix:
-        python-version: ['3.8', '3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12']
+        python-version: ['3.9', '3.10', '3.11', '3.12', '3.13']
 
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v2

pkgs/clean-pkg/changelog/2025/july.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                      Fix                                       
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* stages
+    * Update configure management to check for status of management interface to be up and fail the stage if it is not.
+
+* clean-pkg/stages
+    * iosxe
+        * Updated the reset configuration to process the config in chunks
+    * iosxe
+        * Added a separate section to handle the unconfigure ignore startup config
+        * Added logic to check status of previous install commit and perform commit if wasn't committed
+    * cat9k
+        * Added a separate section to handle the unconfigure ignore startup config
+
+* clean/stages
+    * Updated DeleteFilesFromServer to automatically access the hostname if not provided explicitly in either DeleteFilesFromServer or CopyToLinux stages.
+
+* stages/iosxe
+    * connect
+        * Updated logout step to handle login prompts.
+    * connect
+        * Updated logout step to handle ssh connection issues after logout.
+
+* clean-pkg
+    * Refactor plugin loading from pkg_resources.iter_entry_points to importlib.metadata.entry_points
+
+* iosxe
+    * Fixed issue in `copy_to_device` where `origin['files']` would raise an error if there were no files.
+    * InstallImage stage
+        * Added new dialog to handle different platform reload patterns
+
+* os/iosxe
+    * Modified reset configuration
+        * add platform console virtual to platform console virtual in Replace dictionaryå
+
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+                                      New                                       
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+* stages/clean/iosxe
+    * Modified the Rommon Boot stage.
+
+* os/iosxe
+    * Modified connect
+        * Added logout logic.
+    * Modified InstallRemoveInactive
+        * Updated loop_continue to True.
+
+

pkgs/clean-pkg/src/genie/libs/clean/__init__.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 '''
 
 # metadata
-__version__ = "25.6"
+__version__ = "25.7"
 __author__ = 'Cisco Systems Inc.'
 __contact__ = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
 __copyright__ = 'Copyright (c) 2019, Cisco Systems Inc.'

pkgs/clean-pkg/src/genie/libs/clean/stages/iosxe/cat9k/stages.py

@@ -874,11 +874,12 @@ class InstallImage(IOSXEInstallImage):
     # Execution order of Stage steps
     # ==============================
     exec_order = [
-        'verify_running_image',
         'delete_boot_variable',
         'set_boot_variable',
+        'configure_and_verify_startup_config',
         'save_running_config',
         'verify_boot_variable',
+        'verify_running_image',
         'install_image'
     ]