Release Notes

Homer Changelog

v0.11.2 (2026-05-14)

Miscellanea

  • graphql: request 'commit_rate' for circuits and not 'termination_z.upstream_rate'

v0.11.1 (2026-01-12)

Minor improvements

  • capirca.py: handle situation if netbox script has failed its most recent run.

v0.11.0 (2025-10-08)

New features

Support for JSON-RPC configuration of Nokia devices.

v0.10.2 (2025-07-24)

Minor improvements

  • capirca.py: handle situation if netbox script has never run more gracefully.

Bug fixes

  • transports.junos: pass ignore_warning strings when running diff() and rollback() RPCs, which is needed to handle changes in chassis port speed configuration.

Miscellanea

  • setup.py: pin prospector to ensure it works in CI.

v0.10.1 (2025-05-12)

Bug fixes

  • setup.py: include the graphql query files that were not automatically included.

v0.10.0 (2025-05-12)

New features

  • netbox: add a fetch_device_interfaces() method to BaseNetboxDeviceData to get all the device interfaces using GraphQL queries. It works both with virtual chassis or plain devices.

Miscellanea

  • docstrings: remove types from docstrings, they are now automatically detected from the type hints in the signatures.

v0.9.0 (2025-04-14)

New features

  • commit: allow to approve/reject diffs globally (T250415):

    • Add a diff module to manage device configuration diffs.

    • Keep the implementation simple for now with just a singleton class DiffStore to be used as storage for the configuration diffs approved or rejected for all next devices.

    • Add an ApprovalStatus enum class to the interactive module to manage all the possible states a diff approval can get.

    • Make the ask_approval() method return the given choice.

    • In the junos transport use the new features to allow to approve or reject a given configuration diff for the current device only or for the current device and all future devices that will present the same diff in the same Homer run.

Minor improvements

  • homer: move NetboxData initialization to __init__() given that is required for all operations if Netbox is used.

  • capirca: change the CapircaGenerate constructor signature to be device-independent so that it can be instantiated only once per homer run using the same script result from Netbox avoiding to get it for each device. Move the device specific data to the generate_acls() method as it was already the only place where it was used.

  • commit: refactor asking for approval moving the logic to ask the user for approval to commit a given device configuration diff from a callbak to a dedicated interactive module. Simplify the signature of the transport commit method as a result.

Miscellanea

  • tox.ini: remove optimization for tox <4

  • doc: update documentation configuration to use sphinx type hints to automatically get the type hints from the signatures and not from the docstrings. Fine tune the documentation configuration.

v0.8.0 (2025-04-02)

New features

  • netbox: refactor support for GraphQL queries, exposing them also to plugins, fetching the GQL queries from file.

Miscellanea

  • tests: fix newly reported issues.

v0.7.0 (2024-07-22)

Breaking change

  • Netbox: Add support for Netbox 4. (T336275)

    • Not compatible with Netbox < 3.3.

    • Limited support for cables with multiple terminations per sides: the first termination is the only one considered.

Miscellanea

  • Tox: Add Python 3.12 support.

v0.6.6 (2024-06-18)

Minor improvements

  • Netbox: include vlans defined on IRB int in returned vlans for device.

v0.6.5 (2023-12-18)

Minor improvements

  • Netbox: retry on failed API calls

v0.6.4 (2023-10-03)

Minor improvements

  • transports.junos: Add more info on commit errors.

Miscellanea

  • setup.py: remove version pin for paramiko.

  • tox.ini: use sphinx-build instead of setup.py.

v0.6.3 (2023-07-18)

Minor improvements

  • NetboxInventory: use GraphQL for performance improvements (T310577).

  • Replace Capirca with Aerleon (T337082).

Miscellanea

  • Add Python 3.11 support.

  • tox.ini: make it compatible with tox 4.x.

  • tests: check also a special syntax for quotes.

  • Ignore .vscode directory.

v0.6.2 (2023-04-05)

New features

  • transports: Allow different SSH port than default 22.

Miscellanea

  • Remove support for Python 3.7 and 3.8.

v0.6.1 (2022-09-14)

Bug fixes

  • homer: fix device configuration merge when using both file configuration and Netbox inventory.

Miscellanea

  • cli: add --version command line argument.

v0.6.0 (2022-09-13)

Minor improvements

  • dependencies: bump pynetbox to ~= 6.6 to enable the use of more recent features (T310745).

  • netbox: enable pynetbox threading (T311486).

Bug fixes

  • transports.junos: fix upstream regression in the JunOS Python library py-junos-eznc that requires to always set the conn_open_timeout parameter when creating a new Device instance.

Miscellanea

  • Add WMF-specific configuration file to be used by the script that makes new releases.

  • flake8: move all flake8 config to setup.cfg as the configuration is no longer read from multiple files.

  • tox: add the --no-external-config flag to prospector in order to ensure that the provided configuration is the only one used independenly of existing alternative configurations locally.

v0.5.1 (2022-07-20)

New features

  • netbox: _get_circuits: add patch panel support.

    • When an interface is connected to a patch panel, traverse it to expose the "real" z side.

    • Requires Netbox 3.1 minimum.

Miscellanea

  • Add Python 3.10 support.

  • config: fix type hints for YAML callables.

  • doc: set default language.

v0.5.0 (2022-05-26)

New features

  • transports: allow to set a global timeout in the configuration file for all transports related operations.

  • devices: allow to pass additional metadata

    • When using Netbox as inventory for the device list, the device metadata comes from Netbox and any metadata present in the YAML configuration file devices.yaml is discarded.

    • Fix this behaviour loading any additional metadata present in the devices.yaml file for each device and merge it with the metadata generated from Netbox data.

    • If a key is present in both sources, the Netbox data has precedence and the data from the devices.yaml file is silently discarded.

  • transports: allow to override the global timeout on a per-device basis through the devices.yaml file passing additional metadata to the host using the timeout key.

v0.4.1 (2022-04-26)

Minor improvements

  • homer: expand user paths when reading ssh_config so that ~/some_config is a supported use case.

  • capirca: catch also requests exceptions that are not catched by pynetbox.

Miscellanea

  • prospector: update config for latest version.

  • setup.py: add missing types for requests.

v0.4.0 (2022-02-15)

New features

  • netbox: inject in the device metadata also the device status from Netbox so that it can be used to query (i.e. status:active).

Bug fixes

  • transports.junos: catch another timeout exception (jnpr.junos.exception.RpcTimeoutError) on close that was raised in some real life usage.

v0.3.0 (2022-01-19)

New features

  • Added option to disable Capirca ACL generation completely

Bug fixes

  • Capirca: disable shade check

  • Force paramiko to 2.8.1

Miscellanea

  • Bump Capirca to 2.0.4

v0.2.9 (2021-11-09)

Bug fixes

  • transports: catch connection error:

    • To prevent that a connection error on one device fails the entire run for all devices, catch a new HomerConnectError when executing the action on the devices.

    • JunOS transport: raise HomerConnectError when failing to connect to the device.

    • Exceptions: add a new HomerConnectError exception class.

    • Fix typo in retry log message on timeout.

Miscellanea

  • Add Python 3.9 support.

  • setup.py: include type hints for dependencies.

  • pylint: fixed newly reported issues.

v0.2.8 (2021-04-29)

Bug fixes

  • setup.py: limit max version of pynetbox that in release 6.0.0 introduced some breaking changes in the API.

  • doc: fix documentation generation that prevented from properly including the auto-generated documentation.

v0.2.7 (2021-04-20)

New features

Bug fixes

  • tests: fix pip backtracking moving prospector to its own environment in tox.

  • tests: add missing tests for the circuits and vlan capabilities in the Netbox module.

  • tests: add missing tests for the device data inventory.

  • tests: fix typo in mocked object.

  • tests: fix deprecated pytest CLI argument.

v0.2.6 (2021-01-07)

New features

  • junos: colorize configuration diff (T260769).

  • netbox: add device's inventory support (T257392).

  • netbox: add per device _get_vlans(). Get all the intefaces of a device and generate a dict with all the vlans configured on those interfaces.

Minor improvements

  • junos: catch exceptions in rollbacks. The rollback operation could also fail, catch the error and log it but do not make the whole run to fail.

Miscellanea

  • dependency: remove temporary upper limit for test dependency prospector, not needed anymore.

  • tox: remove --skip B322 from Bandit config, not supported anymore.

  • type hints: mark the package as type hinted, making it PEP 561 compatible.

v0.2.5 (2020-08-13)

Minor improvements

  • netbox: make Netbox errors surface through Jinja:

    • When an error in the calls to Netbox API occurs it currently gets swallowed by Jinja behing an UndefinedError.

    • Make it explicitely raise an HomerError that gets correctly reported from Jinja showing the original traceback, needed for debug.

  • templates: add support for private templates:

    • Tell Jinja2 to load templates also from the private path if it's set, to enable the support for private templates or subtemplates.

  • netbox: add circuits support:

    • Pulls all the cables terminating on the target device to then find the circuits attached to those cables.

Miscellanea

  • setup.py: add upper limit to prospector version

v0.2.4 (2020-06-22)

Miscellanea

  • Packaging: define a standard homer_plugins name for the external plugins and explicitely exclude them from the PyPI packaging.

  • Removed support for Python version 3.5 and 3.6.

v0.2.3 (2020-06-11)

Minor improvements

  • Improve error catching (T253795).

    • For the diff action catch all the errors directly in the transport in order to return a consistent success and diff result for each device, skipping as a result those with failure. In case of failure return None so that it can be distinguished from an empty diff and reported as such both in logging and in the output.

    • For the commit action let the exceptions raise in the transport and be catched and logged in the main Homer class with the same effective result that any failing device is skipped without interrupting the whole run.

    • In both cases log also the traceback when the debug logging is enabled.

v0.2.2 (2020-05-06)

Bug Fixes

  • netbox: adapt to new Netbox API

    • Netbox API starting with Netbox 2.8.0 have removed the choices API endpoint. Adapt the handling of the device status accordingly.

v0.2.1 (2020-04-30)

Minor improvements

  • Add Python 3.8 support

  • transports.junos: do not commit check on empty diff:

    • When performing a commit check, do not actually run the commit_check on the device if there is no diff.

    • In all cases perform a rollback, even on empty diff.

v0.2.0 (2020-04-06)

New features

  • Handle commit abort separately (T244362).

    • Introduce a new HomerAbortError exception to specifically handle cases in which the user explicitely aborted a write operation.

    • In the commit callback raise an HomerAbortError exception when the user abort the commit or reach the limit of invalid replies.

  • transports.junos: retry when a timeout occurs during commits (T244363).

  • transports.junos: handle timeouts separately (T244363).

    • Handle the RpcTimeoutError junos exception separately to avoid to have a full stacktrace in the logs as it's a normal failure scenario.

    • Handle the TimeoutExpiredError ncclient exception separately to avoid failures when calling close().

  • allow overriding the ssh_config path in homer's config.

  • plugins: initial implementation for Netbox data.

    • Allow to specify via configuration a Python module to load as a plugin for the Netbox data gathering.

    • When configured the plugin class is dynamically loaded and exposed to the templates as netbox.device_plugin.

    • It is basically the same implementation of NetboxDeviceData but allows for any specific selection of data from Netbox that is not generic enough to be included in Homer itself.

  • commit: do not commit_check on initial empty diff.

    • As a consequence of commit 1edb7c2 if a device have an empty diff and a commit is run on it, it will run a commit_check anyway. Avoid this situation skipping the whole operation if at the first attempt the diff is empty.

    • In case of enough timeouts that don't allow Homer to complete the commit operation within the same run, the automatic rollback should be waited before retrying, otherwise the device will just be skipped.

    • To achieve this, passing the attempt number to all the operation callbacks, also if it's currently only used in the commit one to keep the same interface for all of them.

  • diff: allow to omit the actual diff.

    • Add the -o/--omit-diff option to the diff sub-command to allow to omit the actual diff for security reasons if the diff results will be used for monitoring/alarming purposes, as the diff might contain sensitive data.

  • diff: use different exit code if there is a diff (T249224).

    • To allow to run automatic checks on outstanding diffs between the devices running configuration and the one defined in Homer's config and templates, make the diff command to return a different exit code when successfull but there is any diff.

    • In case of failure the failure exit code will prevail.

  • netbox: silently skip devices without platform.

    • Some devices might not be reachable by default because not managed. Allow to more silently skip those (debug level logging only) if they are missing both the FQDN and the Platform in Netbox.

Minor improvements

  • Sort deviced by FQDN

  • netbox: skip virtual chassis devices without a domain field set, as they would not be reachable.

Miscellanea

  • examples: add comments to example config

  • config: complete test coverage

  • doc: fix example config.yaml indentation

  • gitignore: add /plugins to gitignore to be able to link a plugin directory from other locations in a local checkout.

v0.1.1 (2019-12-17)

  • Make the transport username configurable

v0.1.0 (2019-12-17)