Release Notes

Support for Cisco Catalyst 8000v
Unified support of vrnetlab containers (including ArubaCX, Cisco Catalyst 8000v, Cisco CSR 1000v, Dell OS10, Cisco Nexus 9000v, Mikrotik RouterOS, Juniper vMX, vPTX and vSRX)
Automated build of GitHub Codespaces devcontainer
Handle keyboard interrupts in long-running netlab commands, including netlab up, netlab initial and netlab validate.
Add --ready action to netlab initial command to wait for lab devices to become ready without configuring them.

Release 1.8.3 (2024-06-16)

RIPv2/RIPng configuration module
BGP Link Bandwidth community in bgp.policy plugin
BGP route server/client in bgp.session plugin.
Installation scripts work with Ubuntu 24.04. They were also tested on Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 20.04, and Debian Bookworm.

Release 1.8.2 (2024-05-13)

Create reports from a subset of nodes
Inspect the same variable(s) across multiple nodes
Check for the presence of Vagrant boxes or Docker containers before starting the lab and display pointers to build recipes.
Check installed Ansible collections before starting netlab up or netlab initial
Support for Sonic VM based on Azure sonic-vs images.
Numerous improvements in the Vagrant box-building process

Release 1.8.1-post1 (2024-04-24)

This release contains only bug fixes and documentation fixes.

Release 1.8.1 (2024-04-08)

Refactor the netlab status printout
Add ‘retry tests until the timeout’ functionality to netlab validate (including the actual time it took to get the expected results).
OSPFv3 in VRFs, implemented on Arista EOS, Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XE, FRR, and Junos (vMX, vPTX, vSRX).
EBGP sessions over IPv4 unnumbered and IPv6 LLA interfaces on Arista EOS
Cisco IOS XRd container support
Numerous configuration template fixes, including reduced OSPF SPF/LSA and IPv6 ND RA timers.

Release 1.8.0 (2024-03-01)

netlab up command can reload saved device configurations instead of starting the initial device configuration process.
DHCP configuration module implements DHCP clients, DHCP servers, and DHCP relays for IPv4 and IPv6.
Lab topology can include control plane- and network services daemons running in Linux containers. This release includes BIRD and dnsmasq daemons.
BGP configuration module supports 4-octet BGP AS numbers and large BGP communities.
Validation plugins allow you to write more powerful netlab validate validation tests without creating complex Jinja2 templates
You can build Docker containers for the supported daemons with the netlab clab build command

Release 1.7.2 (2024-01-26)

This release contains only bug fixes and documentation fixes.

Release 1.7.1 (2024-01-08)

Release 1.7.0 (2023-12-03)

netlab validate command can be used to execute lab validation tests.
The fabric plugin generates a whole leaf-and-spine fabric topology from a few parameters.
The bgp.domain plugin allows you to create topologies with multiple independent devices or sites using the same BGP AS number.
The bgp.policy plugin supports AS-path prepending on Arista EOS, Aruba AOS-CX, Cisco CSR 1000v, Cisco IOSv, Cumulus Linux, FRR
bgp.originate plugin uses loopbacks (instead of static routes to Null device) to originate BGP IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes
The --show option of the netlab connect command implements a consistent cross-device way of executing show commands.

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