New Features

Disconnected Devices Export

nrx now exports all devices matching site/tag/role filters, even if they have no cable connections to other devices. Previously, devices without network links were silently excluded from exports.

Devices-Only Export (--nolinks)

New --nolinks flag enables fast inventory exports without topology data:

• Skip interface and cable fetching for 2.5x-4x performance improvement
• Perfect for device inventory in CSV or HTML formats
• Can be set via CLI (--nolinks) or config file (EXPORT_LINKS = false)

Inventory Export Formats

Templates v0.4.0 introduces two new inventory export formats:

• inventory-csv: Simple CSV format for spreadsheets and automation
• inventory-html: Interactive HTML with search, sort, and filter capabilities

Use with --nolinks for optimal performance when topology data is not needed.

Updates

• Templates submodule updated to v0.4.0
• Test reference files updated for NetBox Cloud API changes
• Comprehensive documentation for inventory exports

Installation

pip install --upgrade nrx

Or using uv:

uv tool install --upgrade nrx

Documentation

• User Guide: https://docs.netreplica.com/nrx/
• Inventory Export Guide: https://docs.netreplica.com/nrx/examples/inventory/
• Configuration Reference: https://docs.netreplica.com/nrx/userguide/configuration/

What's Changed

• Fix export bug when a site is not specified. Add backward compatibility for EXPORT_SITE by @bortok in #181
• Unit tests by @bortok in #184
• Change PyPI publishing to trigger on releases and tags by @bortok in #187
• Fix PyPI workflows and update build documentation by @bortok in #188
• Update dependencies by @renovate[bot]

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.8.2

What's Changed

• Support for Nvidia Air - Cloud-hosted, data center emulation platform by @bortok in #169

Full Changelog: v0.7.0...v0.8.0

What's Changed

• Check for API version after configuring TLS properties by @bortok in #160
• Add systest github actions with tests on netbox cloud instance by @bortok in #157
• Migrated to python 3.10 as a minimum supported version by @bortok in #158

Full Changelog: v0.6.2...v0.7.0

What's Changed

• Support for Netbox v4.1 and dependency updates by @bortok in #148

Full Changelog: v0.6.1...v0.6.2

What's Changed

• Capability to filter links between devices via interface tags by @bortok in #118
• Support for Netbox 4.0 by @tardoe in #123

New Contributors

• @tardoe made their first contribution in #123

Full Changelog: v0.5.2...v0.6.1

New capabilities

• pip install nrx
• Multi-site export

Bug fixes

• None

What's Changed

• Create exports with multiple sites by @scotho3 in #88
• PyPi Package by @bortok in #105
• CLI help with links to documentation and env var for api token by @bortok in #107
• Covered Netbox 3.6 in system test by @bortok in #110

Dependency updates

• Update dependency Jinja2 to v3.1.3 by @renovate in #100
• Update dependency MarkupSafe to v2.1.4 by @renovate in #101
• Update dependency pynetbox to v7.3.3 by @renovate in #99
• Update dependency MarkupSafe to v2.1.5 by @renovate in #104
• Update dependency urllib3 to v2.2.1 by @renovate in #102
• Update dependency certifi to v2024 by @renovate in #103

New Contributors

• @scotho3 made their first contribution in #88

Full Changelog: v0.4.0...v0.5.2

Overview

This release has a significant set of the new capabilities:

• Ability to create new output formats without a need for nrx code changes
• Mapping between NetBox platform values and node parameters via platform_map.yaml file
• $HOME/.nr configuration directory with automatic initialization using --init argument

New capabilities

• Implemented versioning, initialization of the configuration environment with default config & templates in #76
• Support for user-provided output formats in #72
• Use platform_map.yml from the templates to map platforms to kinds and their parameters in #79
• Use platform_map.yaml for all types of templates in #86
• Added support for ENV vars in filesystem path parameters in nrx.conf in #89
• Topology name as --name parameter in #94

Bug fixes

• fixed test-h88-nb-2-cyjs-latest-noconfigs in #98
• Fix for cyjs output to skip lookup in templates/formats.yaml in #78

Dependency updates

• Update dependency pynetbox to v7.2.0 by @renovate in #69
• Update dependency networkx to v3.2.1 by @renovate in #83
• Update actions/checkout action to v4 by @renovate in #71
• Update dependency urllib3 to v2.1.0 by @renovate in #74
• Update dependency charset-normalizer to v3.3.2 by @renovate in #81
• Update dependency certifi to v2023.11.17 by @renovate in #85
• Update dependency idna to v3.6 by @renovate in #87
• Update actions/setup-python action to v5 by @renovate in #95

Full Changelog: v0.3.0...v0.4.0

What's Changed

• Added support for ENV vars in filesystem path parameters in nrx.conf by @bortok in #89

Full Changelog: v0.4.0-rc2...v0.4.0-rc3

Tracking updated templates v0.2.0-rc2