It's Friday the 13th and a pandemic is upon us, so we thought: Why not release the fifth maintenance version of the 5.0 series of NAV!

The source code is available for download at GitHub [1].

New packages for Debian 9/10 (Stretch/Buster) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual.

Please also be extra aware of config file changes. Look out for `*.dpkg-dist` files in /etc/nav and make sure to update your running config.

The virtual appliance will be updated shortly.

Deprecation warning ===================

Python 2 reaches its end-of-life on **January 1, 2020**. NAV 5.0 therefore moves to Python 3, and as such, you will need at least Python 3.5 to run NAV.

Most of NAV will still run on Python 2 as of the 5.0 release, but from this point, Python 2 will be deprecated and we will start removing code that exists solely to keep compatibility with Python 2.

Changes =======

Fixed GitHub issues in this release:

* #1994 (snmptrapd linkupdown plugin does not handle v2 traps) * #2101 ([BUG] Geomap data API endpoint crashes with a TypeError) * #2109 ([BUG] ipdevinfo sensor details page crashes with AttributeError on unit-less sensors) * #2111 ([BUG] Logging non-ASCII characters crashes NAV programs) * #2113 (Document advice for robust e-mail) * #2114 ([BUG] Unable to save status filter in [Status] page) * #2119 ([BUG] Latitude/Longitude is displayed weirdly in the SeedDB room list) * #2123 (Drop support for legacy status preference pickles) * #2129 (Euthanize unresponsive ipdevpoll workers) * #2130 ([BUG] Cannot import dashboard)

Please see the release notes [3] for more details. Happy NAVing everyone!

Links =====

[1] https://github.com/UNINETT/nav/releases [2] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian [3] https://nav.uninett.no/doc/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5.0