Clixon 7.3.0

7.3.0

30 January 2025

Clixon 7.3 features "system-only-config" for secure in-mem handling of selected config data, several cycle optimizations, generic CLI pipe callbacks and lots of bug-fixes.

Features

• Added support for system-only-config data
  • Store sensitive data in the "system" instead of in datastores
  • New CLICON_XMLDB_SYSTEM_ONLY_CONFIG configuration option
  • New system-only-config extension
  • New ca_system_only backend callback for reading system-only data
• New [email protected] revision
  • Changed: CLICON_NETCONF_DUPLICATE_ALLOW to not only check but remove duplicates
  • Added: CLICON_CLI_PIPE_DIR
  • Added: CLICON_XMLDB_SYSTEM_ONLY_CONFIG
  • Deprecated: CLICON_YANG_SCHEMA_MOUNT_SHARE
• Performance optimization
  • New no-copy xmldb_get_cache function for performance, as alternative to xmldb_get
  • Optimized duplicate detection of incoming NETCONF requests
• New: CLI generic pipe callbacks
  • Add scripts in CLICON_CLI_PIPE_DIR
• New: feature request: support xpath functions for strings
  • Added: re-match, substring, string, string-length, translate, substring-before, substring-after, starts-with

C/CLI-API changes on existing features

Developers may need to change their code

• Moved callbacks starting programs from libclixon_cli to example code
  • The functions are: cli_start_shell and cli_start_program
  • If you need them, add them to your application plugin code instead
• Changed C-API: add system-only parameter with default value 0 last:
  • clixon_json2file() -> clixon_json2file(,0)
  • clixon_json2cbuf() -> clixon_json2cbuf(,0)

Corrected Bugs

• Fixed: YANG: added extension/unknown-stmt to rpc/input+output
• Fixed: Incorrect fields displayed for "show compare" and "commit diff"
• Fixed: Documentation corresponding to specific release
  • https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/stable points to lastest release, starting with 7.2.0
• Fixed: Backend hangs when doing "process services restart" in the CLI
• Fixed: Autocli: error when empty YANG group and grouping-treeref=true
• Fixed: Mem error when more multiple uses on top level with multiple statements in grouping
• Fixed: Change CLICON_NETCONF_DUPLICATE_ALLOW to remove duplicates
• Fixed: Segv in canonical xpath transform
• Fixed: Error with submodules and feature Interaction
• Fixed: Expansion removes the double quote
  • Add escaping in expand_dbvar instead of automatic in cligen expand
• Fixed: string length validation doesn't work for the entry "" in case it has default value specified
• Fixed: SNMP: snmpwalk is slow and can timeout