Release 1.9.6

Author: ipspace

README.md

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Interested? [Read the documentation](https://netlab.tools) and [installation gui
 
 ## Releases
 
-The latest release is [release 1.9.5](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.9.5). It should be pretty stable, but if you encounter bugs, please report them as [GitHub issues](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/issues/new/choose) and use release [1.9.4-post2](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.9.4-post2).
+The latest release is [release 1.9.6](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.9.6). It should be pretty stable, but if you encounter bugs, please report them as [GitHub issues](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/issues/new/choose) and use release [1.9.5](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.9.5) or [1.9.4-post2](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.9.4-post2).
 
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 or [1.8.4-post2](https://github.com/ipspace/netlab/releases/tag/release_1.8.4-post2).

docs/release.md

@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 Release Notes
 =============
 
+**Release 1.9.6 (2025-03-21)**
+
+* Add 'gateway' as a valid next-hop for [static routes](generic-routing-static)
+* Rewrite the default gateway processing and add IPv6 default gateways
+* [Set libvirt MTU to 9500](libvirt-network) on bridge-based networks
+
+[More details...](release-1.9.6)
+
 **Release 1.9.5 (2025-03-05)**
 
 * Cumulus Linux NVUE: VXLAN, EVPN, VRF-aware BGP, VRF route leaking, route import

docs/release/1.9.md

@@ -8,6 +8,24 @@
 
 ## New Functionality
 
+(release-1.9.6)=
+### Release 1.9.6
+
+Release 1.9.6 is mostly a [bug fix](bug-fixes-1.9.6) release with a few new features:
+
+* Add 'gateway' as a valid next-hop for static routes
+* Rewrite the default gateway processing and add IPv6 default gateways
+* Set libvirt MTU to 9500 on bridge-based networks
+
+(release-1.9.6-device-features)=
+**New device features**
+
+FRR:
+* Migrate to FRR release 10.2.2
+
+Juniper vMX:
+* Use netlab variables to download a license file or use a local license file
+
 (release-1.9.5)=
 ### Release 1.9.5
 
@@ -750,6 +768,37 @@ Other breaking changes include:
 
 ## Bug Fixes
 
+(bug-fixes-1.9.6)=
+### Bug Fixes in Release 1.9.6
+
+* Force-install **rich** package in Ansible installation script and use the **pip** module instead of **pip3** command to work around the broken **paramiko** version number on Ubuntu 20.04
+* Add restart-policy to allowed clab attributes (#2054)
+* Treat custom config requests with .j2 suffix differently (#2052)
+* Skip creation of host static routes for DHCP clients (#2043)
+* Print a warning if a LAG link uses a Linux bridge (#2038)
+* Use common nodeset parsing function in netlab exec/inspect/report (#2019)
+* Use correct getter function to get per-interface vlan.native value (#2041)
+* Add NH- and IBGP-propagation checks to IBGP local-as integration test (#2040)
+* 'routing' must be added to topology modules when used for host static routes
+* Accept category and generate category-specific hint in log.warning function
+* Do not assign prefixes to routed VLANs (#2031)
+* Cumulus NVUE: Reject routed native vlan on a mixed trunk as unsupported (#2030)
+* Set 'external' role on inter-AS VLANs (#2025)
+* Do not create BGP clist 'path' attribute when 'list' is present (#2029)
+* Perform _valid_with validation on all dictionaries
+* Cumulus NVUE STP: Don't configure STP priority on routed vlans (#2027)
+* Cumulus NVUE: Fix untagged vlan on br_default (#2026)
+* Do not propagate global static routes into node data
+* Add IGP information to loopback interface (#2021)
+* Use IOL as one of the nodes in the EIGRP integration test
+* Add pointer to relevant loopback interface to BGP neighbor data (#2018)
+* Remove .vagrant directory with 'netlab down --cleanup'
+* IPv4-only EBGP multihop integration test
+* max_length parameter of 'id' type can refer to a constant (#2017)
+* Cumulus NVUE: Add support for vrrp.version plugin (#2014)
+* FRR: Only configure active LDP address families (#2012)
+* Cumulus NVUE: enable VRF BGP local_as (#2008)
+
 (bug-fixes-1.9.5)=
 ### Bug Fixes in Release 1.9.5
 
@@ -1024,6 +1073,12 @@ Integration test fixes:
 
 ## Documentation Fixes
 
+(doc-fixes-1.9.6)=
+### Documentation Fixes in Release 1.9.6
+
+* Some routing.static attributes are mutually exclusive
+* Clarify addressing rules on routed VLANs (#2023)
+
 (doc-fixes-1.9.5)=
 ### Documentation Fixes in Release 1.9.5
 

legacy/setup.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 sys.path.append('..')
 
-version="1.9.5"
+version="1.9.6"
 
 long_description = (Path(__file__).parent / "README.md").read_text()
 

netsim/__init__.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 import sys
 
-__version__ = "1.9.5"
+__version__ = "1.9.6"
 
 abort = False