NetBox v3.2-beta1 is available for testing!

[jeremystretch]

I'm happy to announce that the first beta release for NetBox v3.2 is now available for testing! Please bear in mind that this is a pre-release and thus not suitable for production use.

While we're a bit early with this beta - v3.2.0 is scheduled for April - we wanted to get the new plugins framework in front of plugin developer as early as possible to maximize their opportunity to provide feedback ahead of the final release. And there's quite a lot to test, including new support for

• Generic views & corresponding templates
• Model features (change logging, custom fields, journaling, webhooks, etc.)
• Base classes for forms, tables, and filter sets
• Various custom template tags & filters

Our hope is that this release greatly enhances the plugin development experience, and reduces the overall burden for plugin maintainers.

Of course, it's not just about plugins: v3.2 introduces a ton of new core features as well, such as:

• Plugins Framework Extensions (NetBox plugins framework extensions #8333)
• Modules & Module Types (Introduce a model for device modules/line cards #7844)
• Custom Object Fields (Reference related object as custom field value #7006)
• Custom Status Choices (Configurable status choices for sites, prefixes, etc. #8054)
• Improved User Preferences (Introduce a standardized framework for user preferences #7759)
• Inventory Item Roles (Add 'role' to Inventory Items #3087)
• Inventory Item Templates (Inventory templates #8118)
• Service Templates (Service Templates #1591)
• Automatic Provisioning of Next Available VLANs ("available-prefixes" functionality for VLAN's #2658)

...and a bunch more.

The complete releases notes for this pre-release are available on ReadTheDocs, as is the documentation for the newly extended plugins framework. We've also extended NetBox's device type library to start hosting module type definitions as well, so be sure to check that out as well!

As is tradition, we have spun up a dedicated demo instance for the beta release at https://beta-demo.netbox.dev/. The login credentials are admin:admin (just as with the regular demo). Please help us kick the tires! Your feedback will help to ensure a solid v3.2.0 release in April.

[raschkeb]

Hi,

not sure if I should post here or open a bug:

On the beta-demo site, when entering any integer value in the search field, I get a crash message from Django:

<class 'django.core.exceptions.FieldError'>

Cannot resolve keyword 'asn' into field. Choices are: _name, asns, circuit_terminations, clusters, comments, contacts, created, custom_field_data, description, devices, facility, group, group_id, id, images, journal_entries, last_updated, latitude, locations, longitude, name, physical_address, powerpanel, prefixes, racks, region, region_id, shipping_address, slug, status, tagged_items, tags, tenant, tenant_id, time_zone, vlan_groups, vlans

Python version: 3.8.10
NetBox version: 3.2.0-beta1

Strings or prefixes seem to work fine.

Cheers,
Bernd

[compgeniuses]

How i wish this Release Candidate is available in Release soonest. i wish its released 1st March. Would be Fantastic.
Though i am curios on Migration path from previous, is it as tedious, or straightforward and utomated.

[jeremystretch]

FYI beta2 is now available. We plan to release v3.2.0 the week of April 4th.

[compgeniuses]

Fantastic, Only patience can help i see, but its commendable Job on the new version. alot of things i know went into planning, thought and implementation, as well as migrations.