v3.4.0 - 2025-12-05

v3.4 Release Notes

This document describes all new features and changes in the release. The format is based on Keep a Changelog and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Release Overview

The functionality of this app has been moved to Nautobot as of version 3.0.0. The 3.4.x release of this app will continue to support Nautobot v2.4.x and will be maintained for security and critical bug fixes only. All new feature requests for data validation should go directly to Nautobot.

• Fixed Python 3.12 compatibility issues.
• Changed minimum Nautobot version to 2.4.20.
• Dropped support for Python 3.9.

v3.4.0 (2025-12-05)

Fixed

• #204 - Fixed Python 3.12 compatibility issues.
• #218 - Updated rendering of boolean fields in rule tables to match the Nautobot standard.

Documentation

• #207 - Added Analytics GTM template override only to the public ReadTheDocs build.

Housekeeping

• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.7.0.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.7.1.

Contributors

• @nrnvgh
• @pugnacity

New Contributors

• @pugnacity made their first contribution in #226

Full Changelog: v3.3.1...v3.4.0

v3.3.1 - 2025-10-10

v3.3.1 (2025-10-10)

Fixed

• #221 - Fixed a bug in AppConfig causing Nautobot to crash.

Contributors

• @gsnider2195

v3.3.0 - 2025-10-10

v3.3.0 (2025-10-10)

Fixed

• #181 - Replaced all occurrences of PluginCustomValidator with CustomValidator.
• #191 - Updated class inheritance on Bulk Edit Forms to resolve issue loading the Bulk Edit Views.
• #210 - Fixed a race condition when discovering/importing data compliance rules from a Git repository.

Dependencies

• Removed support for Nautobot <2.4.
• Removed support for Python 3.8.

Housekeeping

• #215 - Fixed incorrectly named UIViewSet for DataCompliance.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.4.1.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.4.2.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.5.0.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.5.1.
• Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.6.0.

Contributors

• @DistantVoyager
• @smk4664
• @nrnvgh
• @gsnider2195

New Contributors

• @nrnvgh made their first contribution in #199

Full Changelog: v3.2.0...v3.3.0

Testing Doc Fix

Cookie updated by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool (#193)

* Cookie updated by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool

Template:

```
{
    "template": "https://github.com/nautobot/cookiecutter-nautobot-app.git",
    "dir": "nautobot-app",
    "ref": "refs/tags/nautobot-app-v2.4.1",
    "path": null
}
```

Cookie:

```
{
    "remote": "https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot-app-data-validation-engine.git",
    "path": "/tmp/tmpg4q3c1hm/nautobot-app-data-validation-engine",
    "repository_path": "/tmp/tmpg4q3c1hm/nautobot-app-data-validation-engine",
    "dir": "",
    "branch_prefix": "drift-manager",
    "context": {
        "codeowner_github_usernames": "@nautobot/plugin-data-validation",
        "full_name": "Network to Code, LLC",
        "email": "[email protected]",
        "github_org": "nautobot",
        "app_name": "nautobot_data_validation_engine",
        "verbose_name": "Data Validation Engine",
        "app_slug": "nautobot-data-validation-engine",
        "project_slug": "nautobot-app-data-validation-engine",
        "repo_url": "https://github.com/nautobot/nautobot-app-data-validation-engine",
        "base_url": "nautobot-data-validation-engine",
        "min_nautobot_version": "2.1.9",
        "max_nautobot_version": "2.9999",
        "camel_name": "NautobotDataValidationEngine",
        "project_short_description": "Provides UI to build custom data validation rules for data in Nautobot",
        "model_class_name": "ValidationRule",
        "open_source_license": "Apache-2.0",
        "docs_base_url": "https://docs.nautobot.com",
        "docs_app_url": "https://docs.nautobot.com/projects/data-validation/en/latest",
        "_template": "https://github.com/nautobot/cookiecutter-nautobot-app.git",
        "_output_dir": "/tmp/tmpg4q3c1hm",
        "_repo_dir": "/github/home/.cookiecutters/cookiecutter-nautobot-app/nautobot-app",
        "_checkout": "refs/tags/nautobot-app-v2.4.1"
    },
    "base_branch": "develop",
    "remote_name": "origin",
    "pull_request_strategy": "PullRequestStrategy.CREATE",
    "post_actions": [
        "PostAction.RUFF",
        "PostAction.POETRY"
    ],
    "baked_commit_ref": "2f3dc2daccdd49ef5157ecdd2bd54f8de2ff24be",
    "draft": false
}
```

CLI Arguments:

```
{
    "cookie_dir": "",
    "input": false,
    "json_filename": "",
    "output_dir": "",
    "push": true,
    "template": "",
    "template_dir": "",
    "template_ref": "refs/tags/nautobot-app-v2.4.1",
    "pull_request": null,
    "post_action": [
        "ruff",
        "poetry"
    ],
    "disable_post_actions": true,
    "draft": false
}
```

* Initial work on cleaning up drift-manager changes.

* Finish Drift Manager

* Resolve broken tests 2.3.16/2.4.0

* Update test_filters.py

Nautobot 2.3.16/2.4.0 requires generic_filter_tests to be defined.

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Co-authored-by: bakebot <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Stephen Kiely <[email protected]>

v3.2.0

What's Changed

Security

• #160 - Updated sqlparse dependency to 0.5.0 due to GHSA-2m57-hf25-phgg.
• #163 - Updated jinja2 dependency to 3.1.4 due to CVE-2024-34064.
• #167 - Updated requests dependency to 2.32.2 due to CVE-2024-35195.
• #171 - Updated urllib3 dependency to 2.2.2 due to CVE-2024-37891.

Added

• #162 - Added view name to OrderedDefaultRouter.
• #177 - Added support for Python 3.12.
• #183 - Added support for filtering by Compliance Class Name with a name longer than twenty characters and to filter by multiple names at the same time.

Changed

• #146 - Updated app images with screenshots from Nautobot 2.X UI.
• #146 - Changed references of site to location in docs.
• #162 - Updated minimum Nautobot version to 2.1.9.
• #162 - Disabled specific nb-use-fields-all and nb-sub-class-name pylint rules in tables.py.

Removed

• #162 - Removed DataValidationEngineRootView class and APIRootView override.
• #162 - Removed version from docker-compose files.
• #163 - Removed authentication/password command from MySQL Docker Compose.

Housekeeping

• #0 - Rebaked from the cookie nautobot-app-v2.4.0.
• #174 - Rebake with 2.3.0 Cookiecutter.
• #177 - Rebaked with nautobot-app-v2.3.2 Cookiecutter.
• #185 - Changed model_class_name in .cookiecutter.json to a valid model to help with drift management.

Contributors

• @DistantVoyager
• @dependabot
• @nautobot-bot
• @igpaec
• @smk4664

New Contributors

• @igpaec

Full Changelog: v3.1.1...v3.2.0

v3.1.1

Security

• #144 - Updated cryptography dependency to 42.0.0 due to CVE-2023-50782.
• #145 - Updated django dependency to 3.2.24 due to CVE-2024-24680.
• #148 - Updated cryptography dependency to 42.0.4 due to CVE-2024-26130 and CVE-2024-0727.
• #153 - Updated django dependency to 3.2.25 due to CVE-2024-27351.
• #154 - Updated black dependency to 24.3.0 due to CVE-2024-21503.
• #157 - Updated idna dependency to 3.7 due to CVE-2024-3651.

Fixed

• #155 - Fixed issues where going to "Data Compliance" tab could potentially hide other tabs.

Housekeeping

• #150, #152 - Re-baked from the latest template.

What's Changed

• main to develop post-v3.1.0 by @DistantVoyager in #143
• Bump cryptography from 41.0.6 to 42.0.0 by @dependabot in #144
• Bump django from 3.2.23 to 3.2.24 by @dependabot in #145
• Bump cryptography from 42.0.0 to 42.0.4 by @dependabot in #148
• Cookie updated by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool by @nautobot-bot in #150
• Cookie updated by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool by @nautobot-bot in #152
• Bump django from 3.2.24 to 3.2.25 by @dependabot in #153
• Fixed issues where going to "Data Compliance" tab could potentially h… by @itdependsnetworks in #156
• Bump idna from 3.4 to 3.7 by @dependabot in #157
• Bump black from 23.7.0 to 24.3.0 by @dependabot in #154
• Release v3.1.1 by @DistantVoyager in #158

New Contributors

• @nautobot-bot made their first contribution in #150

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1

v3.1.0

Added

• Added built-in validation rules (Min/Max, Regex, Required, Unique) to Data Compliance.
• Added check-box option to Data Compliance job for built-in rules.
• Added link to Data Compliance results within job logging.

Changed

• #141 - Replaced pydocstyle with ruff.
• Updated compliance job logging.
• Updated data compliance comments.
• Updated with drift manager inconsistencies.

What's Changed

• main to develop post-v3.0.2 by @DistantVoyager in #131
• Change docs readme link by @DistantVoyager in #132
• Fix bullet rendering on mkdocs by @itdependsnetworks in #137
• Fix Drift Management by @snaselj in #140
• Add existing rules to validation report by @zackt25 in #139
• Bump jinja2 from 3.1.2 to 3.1.3 by @dependabot in #135
• Bump gitpython from 3.1.37 to 3.1.41 by @dependabot in #134
• Cookie initialy baked by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool by @snaselj in #141
• Release v3.1.0 by @DistantVoyager in #142

New Contributors

• @zackt25 made their first contribution in #139

Full Changelog: v3.0.2...v3.1.0

v3.0.2

Added

• Additional invoke tasks including export, backup_db, import_db

Changed

• Updates from rebaked cookie using Drift Manager
• Renamed plugin to app throughout code
• Dependency updates

What's Changed

• main to develop post-v3.0.1 by @DistantVoyager in #118
• Bump django from 3.2.20 to 3.2.23 by @dependabot in #121
• Bump cryptography from 41.0.4 to 41.0.6 by @dependabot in #123
• Cookie initialy baked by NetworkToCode Cookie Drift Manager Tool by @snaselj in #119
• Remove unused mkdocs nav pages by @DistantVoyager in #124
• Renaming work by @whitej6 in #127
• Updated PR template by @DistantVoyager in #129
• Release v3.0.2 by @DistantVoyager in #130

New Contributors

• @whitej6 made their first contribution in #127

Full Changelog: v3.0.1...v3.0.2

v3.0.1

Added

• Added migration 0060_add_field_defaults

Changed

• Dependency updates

What's Changed

• main to develop post-v3.0.0 by @DistantVoyager in #112
• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.4 to 2.0.6 by @dependabot in #113
• Bump pillow from 10.0.0 to 10.0.1 by @dependabot in #114
• add missing migration by @gsnider2195 in #115
• Bump urllib3 from 2.0.6 to 2.0.7 by @dependabot in #116
• Release v3.0.1 by @DistantVoyager in #117

New Contributors

• @gsnider2195 made their first contribution in #115

Full Changelog: v3.0.0...v3.0.1

v3.0.0

This release adds support for Nautobot v2.0.0.

Added

• Added Tags to validation rules
• Added pylint-nautobot
• Re-added healthcheck to docker-compose
• Added 0004_created_datetime migration
• Added 0005_remove_slugs_alter_tags migration
• Uses natural_key in place of slugs

Changed

• Nautobot v2.0 updates following from-v1 migration guides
• Changed rule urls to use UUID instead of slug
• Changed LogLevelChoices.LOG_SUCCESS to __.LOG_INFO
• Updated jobs logging and restering
• Moved from Site & Region to Location model
• Changed filter fields to use __all__
• Updates to form parent classes
• Dependency updates

Removed

• Removed the use of slugs
• Removed nested serializers

What's Changed

• main to develop post-v2.2.0 by @DistantVoyager in #101
• main to develop post-v2.2.0 by @DistantVoyager in #102
• Nautobot 2.0 support by @mzbroch in #68
• Release v3.0.0 by @DistantVoyager in #111

New Contributors

• @mzbroch made their first contribution in #68

Full Changelog: v2.2.0...v3.0.0