Salt-nornir

BUGS

1. Fixed nr.test execution module handling of empty test suites when initial rendering produces no content for given host.
2. Updated runner nr.diagram set to increase netmiko read_timeout timer to 240 seconds by default to extend time collecting long output from devices
3. Runner nr.diagram improved OS path handling for `outfile` argument
4. Runner nr.diagram changed commands output results handling to skip empty and error results

CHANGES

1. Removed ``cli`` argument support from ``nr.test`` execution module function as it was not used in the code anyway, instead can supply extra arguments using ``**kwargs``
2. Updated and tested dependencies:

- PyYaml 5.4.1 -> 6.0.1
- napalm 4.0.0 -> 4.1.0
- pydantic 1.10.2 -> 2.0.3
- nornir-netmiko 0.2.0 -> 1.0.0
- nornir-napalm 0.3.0 -> 0.4.0
- nornir-scrapli 2022.07.30 -> 2023.7.30
- scrapli 2022.07.30 -> 2023.7.30
- scrapli-community 2022.07.30 -> 2023.7.30
- scrapli-netconf 2022.07.30 -> 2023.7.30
- pyats 22.1 -> 23.7
- genie 22.1 -> 23.7
- pygnmi 0.8.9 -> 0.8.12
- pynetbox 7.0.0 -> 7.0.1
- lxml 4.9.2 -> 4.9.3
- rich 12.6.0 -> 13.5.2
- robotframework 6.0.2 -> 6.1.1
- dnspython 2.3.0 -> 2.4.2
- saltstack 3006.0 -> 3006.2

3. Added Pydantic 2.0 support, pydantic 1.x will be deprecated in 0.21 release
4. Changes to install extras:

- `prodmax` replaced with `prodmaxminion` and `prodmaxmaster` to optimize set of installed packages
- `prodmin` replaced with `prodminminion` and `prodminmaster` to optimize set of installed packages

FEATURES

1. nr.test added support for ``salt`` argument for test items, which allows to control salt-nornir execution module function and parameters to use to run the test
2. stare nr.workflow module added support for step `stop_if_fail` argument to stop workflow execution for given host if step fail this is to address 35 feature request
3. Added new nr.netbox execution module function `get_circuits` to retrive devices' circuit details from netbox

BUGS

1. Improoved nr.netbox get_interface handling for cases when remote connection terminates on provider network
2. Fix nr.cli handling multiline commands file downloaded from master making sure file content splitted into multiple lines and each line sent to device one by one when `split_lines` set to True

ENHANCEMENTS

1. nr.test added support to specify `worker` to render and run tests with 31
2. nr.test added support for `job_data` argument for tests rendering 32

FEATURES

1. nr.netbox execution module `get_interfaces` added support to cache data received from Netbox using diskcache module
2. Salt-Nornir robot nr.test added overall tests counter for robot framework outputted logs
3. Salt-Nornir robot nr.test added support to wrap commands output per device per-command instead of just per device on robot log output
4. Salt-Nornir robot nr.test added CSV results section to robot report to contain results in CSV format

CHANGES

ENHANCEMENTS

1. Done testing with Salt 3006

CHANGES

1. Enhanced Robot nr.test keyword logging and reporting - now reports have success/failure highlighting, full test suite results returned with collected device output for each test suite.
2. Netbox pillar main function enveloped in try/except loop making sure unexpected pillar etrieval failure handled more gracefully.
3. Updated dependencies to comply with Salt 3006 static requirements:

- pyyaml from 6.0 to 5.4.1
- requests from 2.28.1 to 2.25.1
- psutil from `>=5.8.*,<=5.9.*` to `>=5.8.*,<6.*`

4. Changes to development environment itself:

- Use `python:3.9-slim-bullseye` as a base image for testing
- Updated ceos instances to 4.30.0F
- A number of tests being fixed following above changes

5. Changes to install extras:

- 'prodmax' replaced with prodmaxminion and prodmaxmaster
- 'prodmin' replaced with prodminminion and prodminmaster

BUGS

1. Updated refresh behavior to preserve worker stats across Nornir refresh, where previously those stats have been set to 0 on each refresh

FEATURES

1. nr.netbox `get_interfaces` and `get_connetions` added sync argument to store retrieved data in host's inventory
2. nr.netbox `get_interfaces` and `get_connetions` added support to retrieve data for hosts matched by Fx filters
3. nr.nornir inventory added support for `update_defaults`` function to update in-memory defaults inventory data, 28

CHANGES

1. nr.netbox `get_interfaces` and `get_connetions` now return dictionary keyd by hostnames
2. nr.netbox `get_interfaces` and `get_connetions` removed device_name argument, instead need to use Fx filters
3. Updated netbox_utils to support sourcing Netbox URL and Token directly from proxy minion pillar in addition to sourcing it from master's ext_pillar configuration

BUGS

1. Fixed Netbox `get_interfaces` inventory items handling when inventory item not assigned to any component