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Announcement: NAV 5.17.1 released
by Morten Brekkevold 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

The first maintenance release of the 5.17 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm), 11 (Bullseye) and 13 (Trixie) are available in our APT repository [2]. ## Fixed - Fix collapsed multiselects in status tool filters (#3797) - Event engine now yields to overdue scheduler callbacks between processing queued events, preventing long event batches from blocking time-critical tasks. (#3798) - Added missing index on netboxentity.deviceid to speed up lookups by device. (#3794) - Fix crash when rendering navlet error responses due to missing navlet ID (#3802) - Fixed a session crash (UpdateError) on the login page that could leak cleartext passwords in Django error emails. (#3803) - Fix chart widget failing to load images from URLs without query parameters (#3805) - Fixed sc.05.16.0001.sql migration failure on PostgreSQL 14 caused by ambiguous || operator when concatenating an integer without an explicit ::TEXT cast. (#3806) - Fixed a crash in Netmap when the topology graph exceeds memcached's max item size. The graph is now returned successfully even when it cannot be cached. (#3795) - Improved active IP collector query performance (~10x) by utilizing partial database indexes on the arp table more effectively. (#3793) - PortAdmin's "commit configuration" endpoint now returns 503 instead of 500 when the device is unreachable or does not support configuration commits, and no longer triggers spurious admin error emails for these expected operational failures. (#3801) - Turned support for REMOTE_USER back on. Regression caused by the new auth-system and its complicated route to the finish line. ## Release notes We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. Happy NAVing everyone! ## Links [1] https://github.com/Uninett/nav/releases [2] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian [3] https://nav.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5-17 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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Upgrade to NAV 5.16.1, navsyncdb throws error
by Ingeborg Hellemo 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

While trying to upgrade to NAV 5.16.1, navsyncdb throws this error: sql/changes/sc.05.16.0001.sql: operator is not unique: unknown || integer LINE 1: new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id || ' (' || trunca... ^ HINT: Could not choose a best candidate operator. You might need to add explicit type casts. QUERY: new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id || ' (' || truncated_comment || ')' CONTEXT: PL/pgSQL function inline_code_block line 22 at assignment PostgreSQL version 14.21 (both client and server) on FreeBSD The solution is to explicitly cast the two places where it is missing: 28c28 < new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id || ' (' || truncated_comment || ')'; --- > new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id::TEXT || ' (' || truncated_comment || ')'; 30c30 < new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id; --- > new_token_str := 'token #' || token_rec.id::TEXT; --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg.hellemo(a)uit.no Dep. of Information Technology --- Univ. of Tromsø

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Nav 5.17.0, regression in Chart widget
by Ingeborg Hellemo 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Upgraded to NAV 5.17.1 and the Chart widget did not work as in previuos versions. Example: "URL to image" = http://weather.cs.uit.no/cam/cam_south.jpg gives "Error loading image" --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg.hellemo(a)uit.no Dep. of Information Technology --- Univ. of Tromsø

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NAV 5.17.0, login problems
by Ingeborg Hellemo 27 Feb '26

27 Feb '26

Upgraded to 5.17.0, but had to roll back since login broke: [Wed Feb 25 14:53:44.458545 2026] [wsgi:error] [pid 94060] [remote 129.242.6.226:46890] [Wed Feb 25 14:53:44 2026] [WARNING] [pid=94060 nav.web.auth.middleware] User <username> denied access to /?_=1772027624097 [Wed Feb 25 14:53:44.460908 2026] [wsgi:error] [pid 94060] [remote 129.242.6.226:46890] [Wed Feb 25 14:53:44 2026] [WARNING] [pid=94060 django.request] Unauthorized: / Neither local users nor ldap-users can log in. How to debug? We do not use REMOTE_USER which is mentioned in the release notes. From webfront/webfront.conf # Should it be possible to log in with the username set in a request header # (usually REMOTE_USER)? [remote-user] # Whether REMOTE_USER authentication should be enabled enabled = no --Ingeborg -- Ingeborg Østrem Hellemo -- ingeborg.hellemo(a)uit.no Dep. of Information Technology --- Univ. of Tromsø

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Unable to upgrade nav 12 in debian 11 to any upper version.
by Secundino Grau 17 Feb '26

17 Feb '26

Hello, I have a fully working nav 5.12 instance and when I try to upgrade to 5.13, 5.14, 5.15, always have a lot of internal server errors 500 , and I'm unable to get graphite work again. If the process of upgrade is always within debian 11 packages, no success. I tested upgrading from debian 11 to 12, and then upgraded NAV but not success! Please, does anyone know if there are some steps in the upgrade process that I have missed? Thanks in advance, S. Grau

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Announcement: NAV 5.17.0 released
by Morten Brekkevold 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

The first feature release of the 5.17 series of NAV is now out! The source code is available for download at GitHub [1]. New packages for Debian 12 (Bookworm), 11 (Bullseye) and 13 (Trixie) are available in our APT repository [2]. Please be sure to check the release notes [3] before upgrading, as there may be recommended changes to your config files. ## Security - Enable CSRF protection in entire NAV web UI (#3395) ## Added - DHCP usage statistics graphs are now shown on VLAN and prefix pages when found in Graphite (#2373) - Added "more than" / "less than" option to the "Last Seen" filter on the Room view interface list (#3313) - Added hyperlink to management profile options in SeedDB netbox form (#3643) - Added browse tree and description search for easier maintenance task component selection (#3778) - Added support for SNMP v3-based CAM data collection on Cisco switches (Adds support for SNMP v3 context switching for logical MIB instances) (#2811) - Added script to generate GitHub, blog and e-mail release announcements from CHANGELOG.md ## Changed - Finally switched from NAV's homegrown authentication system to Django's own. This makes NAV compatible with a lot of 3rd party libraries, and is a necessary step to support MFA. This is a big change. Test thoroughly before putting this version into production. This is especially important if you have configured REMOTE_USER authentication. NAV's classic REMOTE_USER support has a lot of bells and whistles that Django's support lacks. We have added support for NAV's config options but it is a little used feature. There should be no need to update the confg file. (#3626) - Allow users to set a subscribed dashboard as their default (#3572) - Refactored dhcpstats backend. Users beware: option user_context_poolname_key in dhcpstats.conf renamed to user_context_groupname_key and its default value changed from name to group. (#3766) - Upgraded jQuery library to version 4 (#3730) - Upgraded Marionette to V4 in the IPAM tool (#1873) - Refactored dashboard navlets to use HTMX for rendering and updates (#3635) - Stopped CI testing on Python 3.12 by default (#3741) ## Fixed - Re-enabled sorting by actor in auditlog table, now actually working robustly! (#3581) - Fixed breadcrumbs missing from JWT Create and Edit frontend pages (#3682) - Fixed bug where Netmap views could not be created or updated (#3737) - Ensure that the auditlog entries for deleting accounts behave like other entries. (#3738) - Fixed IP Device select in Add New Service form (#3749) - Filtering on SeedDB Patch and Cable pages now searches all visible columns instead of only the jack field (#3760) - Popover arrow is now correctly positioned when aligned to the end (#3770) - Fix bug where Getting Started tour does not highlight the correct element (#3771) - PortAdmin's save feedback modal now appears instantly instead of being delayed by a network round-trip (#3772) - Add global CSRF token handlers for all HTMX and jQuery AJAX POST requests, to ensure things do not break unintentionally when CSRF validation is enabled - Fixed a crash in nav config where when no config file directory could be found ## Release notes We always advise you to have a look at NAV's accompanying release notes [3] before upgrading. Happy NAVing everyone! ## Links [1] https://github.com/Uninett/nav/releases [2] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian [3] https://nav.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5-17 -- Sincerely, Morten Brekkevold Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

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