The second maintenance release of the 5.0 series of NAV is now out, and what a busy week it has been!

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:

* #2035 (Enable room geo positions to be writeable in API) * #2036 ([BUG] logengine crash with AttributeError on every run on NAV 5.0.1) * #2037 ([BUG] ipdevpolld multiprocess mode logs reams of TypeErrors) * #2038 ([BUG] ipdevpoll psuwatch crash with TypeError immediately after upgrade to NAV 5) * #2039 (Fix broken natural sort implementation on Python 3 ) * #2041 (Geomap does not work in NAV 5.0.1) * #2043 ([BUG] Syslog analyzer search returns nothing) * #2044 ([BUG] navclean does not work under Python 3) * #2045 ([BUG] Exception is raised when visiting /api/1/alert/ID) * #2047 ([BUG] ipdevpoll jobs crash with "A string literal cannot contain NUL (0x00) characters" messages for some devices) * #2048 (Support MAC address device IDs from CDP records) * #2049 ([BUG] ipdevinfo old style Switch port activity view is blank) * #2050 ([BUG] Geomap is missing links between nodes) * #2052 ([BUG] ipdevpoll inventory job sometimes crashes when saving POE Port information) * #2054 ([BUG] pping resolves all boxDown alerts on restart) * #2055 ([BUG] Navlets crash/appear blank if their config is stored as legacy pickles) * #2056 ([BUG] Cannot add activity graphs to 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