4.0.0

Type Hinting

After months of work, @Kircheneer added type hinting support in #1412 and #1476.

New features

Add Commit-Confirm support for Cisco IOS #1691
New encoding argument added to the cli method to return the output of operational / show commands in the desired format. Currently supported on Junos and EOS. #1637 & #1663
Added ttp_parse helper function to codebase #1563
Replaced ciscoconfparse with netutils #1565
New SSH transport available for Arista EOS - thanks @thomasbridge74 #1502

Improvements

Adds mac and ip checks for getters #1560
The uptime field in the get_facts return is now float type: #1651
[NX-OS] Improve compare_config for NXOS partial merging #1567
[EOS] support arbitrary transport class #1643 & #1647
[EOS] move config lock check to _load_config #1642
[EOS] Handle modern memory output from Arista EOS 4.27+ #1673
[IOS-XR] Improving get_facts behavior to handle XML changes in newer OS versions #1667
[Junos] make sure we don't duplicate LLDP neighbor entries #1640

Bug fixes

[Junos] find for system uptime element #1675
[IOS-XR] get_lldp_neighbor_details does not support 'N/A' capabilities #1681
[IOS-XR] get_lldp_neighbor_details add alternative lldp local interface key #1682
[NX-OS] get_interfaces fix description on SVI interfaces #1571
[IOS] get_vlans does not return all interfaces if they wrap around in the config #1569
[Junos] Fix #1549: Check peer admin status from the BGP options #1566
[EOS] get_bgp_neighbors_detail only returns back a single peer for a certain EOS platform #1573