v1.7.0

[indy-independence]

New features:

• Primary groups can be set to use different branches of the templates repository (Feature.primary group templates branch #365)
• Get configuration section from running config of device instead of replacing to handle cases
  where some part of the configuration should not be managed by NMS (Add get_config_block_regex to extract config section from config #369)
• Support more interface types on junos (Increased interface types #372)
• Allow specifying a range of VLANs in tagged_vlan_list in settings (allow specifying ranges of vlans in tagged_vlan_list #373)
• New ifclass on DIST devices called "mirror" which will mirror configuration from mgmtdomain peer
  device to use same list of VLANs etc on both devices while only having to specify them once (New ifclass "mirror" on dist devices which copies settings from #379)
• New settings for:
  • external_routing_policies: Specify names of routing policies not defined in settings, this allows
    checking that all referenced routing policies are defined
  • interface_tag_options: Specify available options for interface tags to display in WebUI
  • port_template_options: Specify available port_templates to display in WebUI
  • vxlan_vni_range: Specify allow range of VNIs and error if VNI is outside of range
  • remove_private_as: On BGP peering specify that private AS numbers should be removed from path
• Add API to get LLDP neighbor information from devices (Add API get LLDP neighbors #387)
• Detect if Arista should download 32 or 64 bit images depending on model (Detect if arista should download 32 or 64 bit image based on model #388)
• Add new device type FIREWALL (New device type firewall #393)

Bug fixes:

• Copy files (certs for ZTP) to arista devices with EOS 4.32+ requires netmiko 4.5.0 or later
• Commit confirm mode 1 and 2 on Arista EOS 4.32+ devices (temp fix, needs newer napalm version later Commit confirm does not work on EOS 4.32+ #395)

New Contributors:

• @Qwiko made their first contribution in Issue/398/custom encoding #399

Full Changelog: v1.6.0...v1.7.0

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This discussion was created from the release v1.7.0.