The initial feature release of the 5.5 series of NAV is now out!

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

New packages for Debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are available in our APT repository [2] as usual.

Please 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 automatically.

Changed =======

- Bump lxml from 4.6.5 to 4.9.1 in /tests (#2443) - Links and documented references to the NAV mailing lists have changed to the lister.sikt.no domain.

Added =====

- Add link to #nav irc channel on Libera.Chat to README file (#2475) - Add mac_addresses attribute to /netbox/ API endpoint (#2487, #2490) - Add ability to filter by alert severity in the status tool (#2467) - Support for fetching ARP cache entries from all Arista VRF instances (#2262, #2454)) - Link aggregation information added to NAV API (#1765, #2440) - Support fetching memory stats from CISCO-ENHANCED-MEMPOOL-MIB (#2236, #2439) - Added a flag to navcheckservice that shows all available handler plugins (#2378, #2437) - Post deviceHwUpgrade/deviceSwUpgrade/deviceFwUpgrade events when changes are detected to devices' hardware, software or firmware revisions (#2393, #2413) - Call a cleanup() method for individual container objects after ipdevpoll save stage (#2421) - Added Device methods to resolve and return related objects/entities (chassis, modules, fans, power supplied) and extended device descriptions (#2428)

Fixed =====

- Avoid potential resource leaks by properly closing configuration files after reading them (#2451) - Geomap "link to this configuration" now actually opens the correct location at the correct zoom level (#2412, #2488) - snmptrapd can now identify an SNMP agent from any of its interface addresses (#2387, #2461) - PortAdmin now ignores incorrectly configured VLAN tags (tagged as NA) on Juniper switches, instead of crashing (#2452, #2453) - Fix potential ipdevpoll crashes due to database fetches in wrong thread (#2478, #2480) - Handle Graphite connection issues gracefully in ranked statistics page (#2459) - Handle Graphite connection issues gracefully in device group detail page (#2345, #2434) - Removed needless carbon data chunking from activeipcollector (#1696, #2462) - Evaluate 0.0 as a valid numeric metric value during threshold rule evaluations (#2447) - Updated dead links in Geomap documentation (#2419) - Link from IPAM to reserve prefixed in SeedDB now works again (#2410, #2422) - Improved inefficient database queries in Arnold (#2425) - Updated tox examples in hacking documentation (#2427, #2430) - Fixed an AttributeError crash bug in the naventity command line program (#2433, #2444)

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-5-5