Nornir-salt

BUGS

1. Fixed 15

FEATURE:

1. RetryRunner added support to open test TCP socket to host prior to trying establish a connection

BUGS

1. RetryRunner was ignoring CONNECTION_NAME set in task globals if task function has decorator.

FEATURES

1. Added ``NorFabEventProcessor``

FEATURES

1. Added support for nr_test task plugin to source return results from ``__task__`` host's data.

CHANGES

2. Updated TestsProcessor pydantic model to use ``model_validator`` instead of deprecated ``root_validator``

CHANGES

1. Removed support for python 3.7
2. Updated and tested dependencies:

- nornir 3.3.0 -> 3.4.1
- pydantic 2.3.0 -> 2.5.3
- cerberus 1.3.4 -> 1.3.5
- genie 23.7 -> 23.11
- pyats 23.7 -> 23.11
- ncclient 0.6.13 -> 0.6.15
- netmiko 4.1.2 -> 4.3.0
- nornir-netmiko 1.0.0 -> 1.0.1
- ntc-templates 3.0.0 -> 4.1.0
- paramiko 2.12.0 -> 3.4.0
- pygnmi 0.8.12 -> 0.8.13
- pynetbox 7.0.1 -> 7.3.3
- requests 2.25.1 -> 2.31.0
- lxml 4.9.3 -> 5.0.0
- textfsm 1.1.2 -> 1.1.3
- jinja2 3.1.2 -> 3.1.3
- rich 13.5.2 -> 13.7.0
- diskcache 5.6.1 -> 5.6.3