The initial feature release of the 5.3 series of NAV is now out!
The source code is available for download at GitHub [1].
A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository [2] as usual. Packages for Debian 11 (Bullseye) have not been built yet.
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 as soon as possible.
Changes =======
On January 1st 2022, Uninett, NSD and Unit (all entities owned by the Norwegian government) were merged into the new governmental agency *Sikt - Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research*. This marks the first release of NAV under the new name.
User-visible features and improvements:
The main reason for this new feature release is to ensure NAV is compatible with Python 3.9 (which is the default Python version on the current Debian stable distro, Bullseye). Features that were already lurking in the pipeline are:
* #2245 (Link to room details page from SeedDB room edit page) * #2274 (Hidden attributes for devices) * #2323 (Completely hide all attributes starting with "__") * #2309 (Support a report.conf.d/ style config directory for reports) * #2311 (Wishlist: Info about locations visible via /report/location)
Other fixed GitHub issues in this release:
* #2280 (Only ethernetCsmacd interfaces are shown in the room viewer) * #2310 ([BUG] snmptrapd plugins crash when posting events in NAV 5.2) * #2315 (Properly upgrade to Django 2.2) * #2316 (Upgrade dependencies that will need a newer version to run on Django 3.2 or later) * #2317 (Upgrade Django to 3.2) * #2321 (Also list local conf reports in report widget) * #2324 ([BUG] Example severity rules distributed with NAV 5.2.1 do not actually work) * #2328 (Remove "no access" message from login page during normal login) * #2329 (Upgrade to dnspython 2.1) * #2341 (Warn when database config isn't readable) * #2352 (Fix Python 3.9 compatibility) * #2353 (Document the name change from Uninett to Sikt) * #2355 (Add Sikt to About page, copyrights and graphical profile)
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.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-notes.html#nav-5-3
On Wed, 23 Feb 2022 07:38:47 +0100 Morten Brekkevold morten.brekkevold@sikt.no wrote:
The initial feature release of the 5.3 series of NAV is now out!
The source code is available for download at GitHub [1].
A new package for Debian 10 (Buster) is available in our APT repository [2] as usual. Packages for Debian 11 (Bullseye) have not been built yet.
I would hereby like to correct this:
We have now ported the Debian package also to Debian Bullseye and published it in our APT repositories. Updated guidelines for adding the repo to Bulleye's repository lists have been added at [1].
Unfortunately, it seems the graphite-web package has been removed from Debian Bullseye. It's not clear to us why, but this will affect your ability to install the Graphite web frontend on the same server as NAV when running on Debian Bullseye. If upgrading from Debian Buster, keeping the old package may work, but if installing from scratch, the existing guides are useless. If you have Graphite on a separate server, you should be unaffected by upgrading the NAV server to Bullseye.
We will likely look into backporting the graphite-web version available in the Debian testing distro as we prepare to use Debian Bullseye as our production platform. If and when we do, we will publish this backport in our APT repo as well (although we cannot guarantee timely security updates for a third party backport release, as Debian would).
[1] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian
On Tue, 01 Mar 2022 10:57:00 +0100 Morten Brekkevold morten.brekkevold@sikt.no wrote:
We will likely look into backporting the graphite-web version available in the Debian testing distro as we prepare to use Debian Bullseye as our production platform. If and when we do, we will publish this backport in our APT repo as well (although we cannot guarantee timely security updates for a third party backport release, as Debian would).
I can now happily announce that backporting the graphite-web package from Debian testing to Debian Bullseye was minimal work, and this package is now available at our APT repository, as described in [1].
[1] https://nav.uninett.no/install-instructions/#debian
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Morten Brekkevold