v2.4.4 - 2025-03-03

[HanlinMiao]

What's Changed

Added in v2.4.4

• #5851 - Added PrefixFilter helper class to nautobot.apps.filters.
• #5851 - Enhanced prefixes filter on CloudNetwork and Tenant filtersets to support filtering by literal prefix string (10.0.0.0/8) as an alternative to filtering by primary key.
• #5851 - Enhanced prefix filter on CloudNetworkPrefixAssignment, VRF, and VRFPrefixAssignment filtersets to support filtering by literal prefix string (10.0.0.0/8) as an alternative to filtering by primary key.
• #5851 - Enhanced parent filter on Prefix filtersets to support filtering by literal prefix string (10.0.0.0/8) as an alternative to filtering by primary key.
• #5851 - Enhanced prefix filter on PrefixLocationAssignment filtersets to support filtering by primary key as an alternative to filtering by literal prefix string.
• #5851 - Added q search filter to VRFPrefixAssignment filterset.
• #6635 - Added Monaco Editor integration to object change view for improved visualization of structured data differences including JSON, YAML, XML, tags, custom fields, and config contexts.
• #6924 - Added optional VRF relationship to Virtual Device Context.
• #6925 - Added colors next to Devices to indicate Device status in Rack Elevation view.
• #6966 - Added support for accessing the current user within Custom Validators via self.context["user"].

Changed in v2.4.4

• #6829 - Enabled assignment of a Device to a Rack that belongs to a child Location of the device's location; for example, a Device located in a "Building" can now be assigned to a Rack located in a "Room" within that building.

Fixed in v2.4.4

• #3041 - Fixed inability to assign a parent bay when creating a Device via the REST API.
• #5006 - Added a validation check to prevent removing an in-use content type from a LocationType.
• #5193 - Fixed an erroneous ValidationError when attempting to apply Tags to an object via the REST API.
• #5851 - Fixed VRFPrefixAssignment REST API endpoint incorrectly advertising support for Notes.
• #5851 - Fixed incorrect Meta.model value on ControllerManagedDeviceGroupWirelessNetworkAssignmentTable and ControllerManagedDeviceGroupRadioProfileAssignmentTable.
• #6848 - Fixed a DoesNotExist error in the GUI at /extras/git-repositories/X/result/ when a Git repository was created via API and not yet synced.
• #6861 - Fixed the data population of the Rack Group dropdown to include Rack Groups from the Rack's parent locations in Rack Edit View.
• #6910 - Fixed CSV export job to add a UTF-8 BOM (byte order mark) to the created file to ensure Excel will correctly handle any Unicode data.
• #6920 - Added log messages to help troubleshoot failures when rendering UI Component Framework extra_buttons.
• #6920 - Fixed logic in UI Component Framework StatsPanel that incorrectly disallowed use of FilterSet filters implicitly defined through fields = "__all__".
• #6920 - Fixed logic in generic FormTestCase class that would incorrectly fail if form fields used FilterSet filters implicitly defined through fields = "__all__".
• #6939 - Fixed an error in testing Jobs in JOBS_ROOT by forcing registration of taggit and social_django models before unregistering them from the admin site.
• #6950 - Added missing job_queues filter field to JobFilterSet.
• #6952 - Fixed an AttributeError exception when upgrading from v1.x to v2.x with certain existing data in the database.

Dependencies in v2.4.4

• #6927 - Updated dependency django-filter to ~25.1.

Documentation in v2.4.4

• #6903 - Removed documentation references to Nautobot 1.x behavior and feature changes within the 1.x release series.
• #6951 - Fixed typo in v2 migration documentation.

Housekeeping in v2.4.4

• #5851 - Enhanced PrefixFactory and VRFFactory test helpers to automatically create appropriate VRFPrefixAssignment records.
• #6857 - Added .yarn directory to .gitignore.
• #6857 - Changed CI for integration tests to use --no-keepdb.
• #6858 - Fixed generation of performance test endpoints for Nautobot apps.
• #6893 - Added an option for ephemeral ports, and streamlined debug settings for VSCode developers.
• #6943 - Updated debug invoke task to restore previous behavior.

Contributors

• @HanlinMiao
• @glennmatthews
• @jabelk
• @cdtomkins
• @mateusz-lachowski-codilime
• @icovada
• @Sridevi-NTC
• @msheiny
• @jmpettit
• @adilbenameur
• @jpvrenen
• @lampwins

New Contributors

• @jabelk made their first contribution in Removed references to 1.x tags, keeping text that seemed evergreen #6903
• @jmpettit made their first contribution in Enhance changelog diff display with Monaco viewer #6859
• @jpvrenen made their first contribution in Fixes bug #5193 #6934

Full Changelog: v2.4.3...v2.4.4

---

This discussion was created from the release v2.4.4 - 2025-03-01.