Breaking Changes Merge - Planning

[jvanderaa]

We have a few breaking change PRs in the hopper at this point in time. I think it is going to be time to merge these in and put out a new major release. The timing on this I'm going to plan for a mid-July time frame. I ideally would get something out in the next couple of weeks, but with early July right on the cusp here, would rather not introduce the breaking changes right now.

[jvanderaa]

As a heads up, there is an effort underway that is making significant breaking changes to the NTC-Templates templates. There is an initiative underway that is building a common data model for things such as VLANs. Various keys would be brought in typically, and now those are being standardized. There previously was VLAN, VLAN_TAG, VLAN_ID, VLAN_NAME amongst others. These are being defined explicitly and moving to VLAN_ID and VLAN_NAME (name where there are just characters).

This is not limited to just VLANs, that is just an example. NTC Templates will be following SEMVER and pushing out a new major release. So if you need to pin to the 3.x release, you may want to make sure that your environments are set up accordingly. If doing just pip install ntc-templates to get the templates each time, you will get the latest greatest and keys will change.

This is planned for in the next week or two.