netbox-community-netbox/docs/release-notes/version-4.0.md

NetBox v4.0

v4.0.0 (FUTURE)

Breaking Changes

• The deprecated device_role & device_role_id filters for devices have been removed. (Use role and role_id instead.)
• The legacy reports functionality has been dropped. Reports will be automatically converted to custom scripts on upgrade.
• The parent and parent_id filters for locations now return only immediate children of the specified location. (Use ancestor and ancestor_id to return all descendants.)

New Features

Complete UI Refresh (#12128)

The NetBox user interface has been completely refreshed and updated.

Dynamic REST API Fields (#15087)

The REST API now supports specifying which fields to include in the response data.

Advanced FieldSet Functionality (#14739)

New resources have been introduced to enable advanced form rendering without a need for custom HTML templates.

Enhancements

• #12851 - Replace bleach HTML sanitization library with nh3
• #13283 - Display additional context on API-backed dropdown fields
• #13918 - Add facility field to Location model
• #14237 - Automatically clear dependent selection fields when modifying a parent selection
• #14454 - Include member devices for virtual chassis in REST API
• #14637 - Upgrade to Django 5.0
• #14672 - Add support for Python 3.12
• #14728 - The plugins list view has been moved from the legacy admin UI to the main NetBox UI
• #14729 - All background task views have been moved from the legacy admin UI to the main NetBox UI
• #14438 - Track individual custom scripts as database objects
• #15131 - Automatically annotate related object counts on REST API querysets
• #15237 - Ensure consistent filtering ability for all model fields
• #15238 - Include the description field in "brief" REST API serializations
• #15383 - Standardize filtering logic for the parents of recursively-nested models (parent & ancestor filters)

Other Changes

• #12325 - The Django admin UI is now disabled by default (set DJANGO_ADMIN_ENABLED to True to enable it)
• #12510 - Dropped support for legacy reports
• #12795 - NetBox now uses custom User and Group models rather than the stock models provided by Django
• #13647 - Squash all database migrations prior to v3.7
• #14092 - Remove backward compatibility for importing plugin resources from extras.plugins (now netbox.plugins)
• #14638 - Drop support for Python 3.8 and 3.9
• #14657 - Remove backward compatibility for old permissions mapping under ActionsMixin
• #14658 - Remove backward compatibility for importing process_webhook() (now extras.webhooks.send_webhook())
• #14740 - Remove the obsolete BootstrapMixin form mixin class
• #15042 - Rearchitect the logic for registering models & model features
• #15099 - Remove obsolete device_role and device_role_id filters for devices
• #15100 - Remove obsolete NullableCharField class
• #15193 - Switch to compiled distribution of the psycopg library
• #15277 - Replace references to ContentType without ObjectType proxy model & standardize field names
• #15292 - Remove obsolete device_role attribute from Device model (this field was renamed to role in v3.6)

REST API Changes

• The /api/extras/content-types/ endpoint has moved to /api/extras/object-types/
• dcim.Device
  • The obsolete read-only attribute device_role has been removed (replaced by role in v3.6)
• extras.CustomField
  • content_types has been renamed to object_types
  • The content_types filter is now object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id
• extras.CustomLink
  • content_types has been renamed to object_types
  • The content_types filter is now object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id
• extras.EventRule
  • content_types has been renamed to object_types
  • The content_types filter is now object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id
• extras.ExportTemplate
  • content_types has been renamed to object_types
  • The content_types filter is now object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id
• extras.ImageAttachment
  • content_type has been renamed to object_type
  • The content_type filter is now object_type
• extras.SavedFilter
  • content_types has been renamed to object_types
  • The content_types filter is now object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id
• tenancy.ContactAssignment
  • content_type has been renamed to object_type
  • The content_type_id filter is now object_type_id