QUADS 3.0.4 is Released!


QUADS 3.0.4 brings a small set of features and fixes to the 3.0 series, including support for Arista network switches. We are thankful to our developers and users for ten years of the QUADS project and look forward to many more.

 

Major Feature Highlights

Development Statistics

  • 12 x merged patch-sets
  • 70 x changed files with 5091 additions and 214 deletions
  • This is the 25th release of QUADS since 23-June 2016 when 1.0 was released

Full Change List

System and Infrastructure Requirements

  • A supported version of Fedora is required if using our RPM packages
  • Recommended VM with 8 x vcpu and 8 x GB of memory
  • Foreman for managing your DNS, DHCP, PXE and systems lifecycle

Breaking Changes and Migrations

  • QUADS 3.0.4 requires Fedora 43 or higher
  • Upgrading from 3.0.2 to 3.0.4 performs a database migration, this happens automatically via the upgrade process for you
  • 1 database migration is included in this release:
    • Add switch vendor to interfaces
  • Modified configuration files:
    • conf/plugins.yml
    • conf/selfservice.yml

Run quads --conf-check to sanity check your configuration files. Be sure to address any changed configuration values prior to upgrading.

A new configuration section is required in conf/plugins.yml:


instackdata:

  enabled: true



arista:

  enabled: false

  username: admin

A new configuration value is required in conf/selfservice.yml:


ssm_description_max: 48

Known Issues or Limitations

  • None at this time

Packaging and Support

Note that the RPM attached this release may contain some additional fixes since the 3.0.4 release in the future.

If you run into issues or have questions, please open a GitHub issue or find us on libera.chat IRC #quads

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