Changelog

Upcoming release

Resource
- Support for Resource.wait_for_commit().
- Support for PLDBDetached exception, that is raised when a session is getting detached.
System Diagnostics
- Support for debug values in SysDiag.register_zone().

Users
- New method to change a user’s password Users.change_user_password(). This must be used when communicating with systems running version 24.20 or newer.
Channels
- New channel role Layer3-Shunt added.
Host Triggers
- detection_interval, recovery_interval, abortedconns and abortedconns_percent fields in HostTrigger.
Ruleset
- Support for ConnectionClassObject.

Channels
- Extended argument list for Channels.update_channel(): subchannels, internal, external, channel_type, caps, fabric, location, intpci and extpci.

Liveview
- WebSocket Secure support.
Ruleset
- Support for SYSLOG in FlowObjectFlags.
Host Triggers
- Support for VIEW_SCEVENT in HostTriggerType.
- sc_event fields in HostTrigger.
- HostTriggerScEventFlags.

Essentials
- Resource.list() for listing services and flags. This also makes Resource.services() deprecated.
Ruleset
- Support for SKIP_QSYNC in ShapingObjectFlags.

Setup
- API variants for Linux and OS X are merged into one Python Wheel that supports both platforms.

Essentials
- New method to close a connection, using Connection.close().
- Optional use of a context manager to connect.
Channels
- LACP feature support.
Ruleset
- Ruleset.attr_list(), Ruleset.attr_get(), Ruleset.attr_set() and Ruleset.attr_remove() for attribute handling on objects and rules.
- Support for GeoLogicObject.
- Support to list MonitorInterface.

Channels
- Interface addresses are stored as IPv4/6Interface rather than IPv4/6Network.
Ruleset
- Remove “attributes” attribute from Object.
- ConditionType: rename XFBOBJECTS to FLAGOBJECT.
- TrafficObject: dimensions, partitions and metrics are strings rather than list of objects.
- FlowObject: flags is mandatory field.
Liveview
- Relocate into a stand-alone module within activelogic package.
- Split ViewFilter into two separate classes: liveview.ViewIncludeFilter and liveview.ViewExcludeFilter.
- Return view values as a dict, where each key is a string rather than just an integer.