* A new configuration option `CLICON_CONFIGDIR` has been added for loading of extra config files
* If not given, only the main configfile is loaded.
* If given, and if the directory exists, the files in this directory will be loaded alphabetically AFTER the main config file in the following way:
* leaf values are overwritten
* leaf-list values are appended
* You can override file setting with `-E <dir>` command-line option.
* New clixon-config@2020-10-01.yang revision
* Added option for configuration directory: `CLICON_CONFIGDIR`
* If multiple strings (eg "\n" in text), indent before each new line
* Primarily for auto-cli where long help strings are generated from YANG descriptions, but applies as well for manual long/multi-line help strings
* New config option: `CLICON_CLI_HELPSTRING_TRUNCATE`: Truncate help string on right margin mode
* New config option: `CLICON_CLI_HELPSTRING_LINES`: Limit of number of help strings to show
* Only requests on the form: `<rpc xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0"><edit-config>...` will be accepted
* All replies will be on the form: `<rpc-reply xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">...`
* Requests such as: `<rpc><edit-config>...` will not be accepted.
* You can revert this behaviour (to clixon pre-4.6 behaviour) by enabling `CLICON_NAMESPACE_NETCONF_DEFAULT`
* This API change is a consequence of: [copy-config's RPC cxobj parameter does not contain namespace #131](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/131)
* NACM recovery user session is now properly enforced. This means that if `CLICON_NACM_CREDENTIALS` is `except` (default), then a specific `CLICON_NACM_RECOVERY_USER` can make any edits and bypass NACM rules.
* If a default value is replaced by an actual value, RESTCONF return values have changed from `204 No Content` to `201 Created`
* clixon-config.yang: Removed default valude of CLICON_NACM_RECOVERY_USER
* Enforcing RFC 7950 Sec 7.6.1 means unassigned top-level leafs (or leafs under non-presence containers) are assigned default values.
* NACM default behaviour is read-only (empty configs are dead-lockedd)
* This applies if NACM is loaded and `CLICON_NACM_MODE` is `internal`
* Fixed: [default values don't show up in datastores #111](https://github.com/clicon/clixon/issues/111)
* A generated clispec including state (default @datanodestate) also generated along with the config clispec tree (default @datanode)
* New mode `GT_HIDE` set by option `CLICON_CLI_GENMODEL_TYPE` to collapse non-presence containers that only contain a single list
* Added a prfix for cli_show_config/cli_show_auto so that it can produce parseable output
* Thanks dcornejo@netgate.com for trying it out and suggestions
* Removed xml-stats non-config data (replaced by rpc `stats` in clixon-lib.yang)
* Added option `CLICON_YANG_UNKNOWN_ANYDATA` to treat unknown XML (wrt YANG) as anydata.
* Added: stats RPC for clixon XML and memory statistics.
* Added: restart-plugin RPC for restarting individual plugins without restarting backend.
* xml-stats moved from clixon-config.yang as state data to an rpc `datastats` in clixon-lib.yang
* Experimental: restart_plugin
* Two new plugin callbacks added
* ca_daemon: Called just after a server has "daemonized", ie put in background.
* ca_trans_commit_done: Called when all plugin commits have been done.
* Note: If you have used "end" callback and usign transaction data, you should probably use this instead.
* Two new plugin callbacks added
* ca_daemon: Called just after a server has "daemonized", ie put in background.
* ca_trans_commit_done: Called when all plugin commits have been done.
* If fails, exit with error message, eg: `Yang error: Sanity check failed: LIST vsDataContainer lacks key statement which MUST be present (See RFC 7950 Sec 7.8.2)`
* Can be disabled by setting `CLICON_CLICON_YANG_LIST_CHECK` to `false`
threshold of quadratic and linear growth of CLIgen buffers (cbuf:s)
* Memory footprint
* Do not autopopulate namespace cache, instead use on-demand, see `xml2ns()`.
* Set CBUF start level to 256 (`CLICON_CLI_BUF_START` option)
* Reduced xml child vector default size from 4 to 1 with quadratic growoth to 64K then linear
* C-code changes:
- Replaced stream uri:s w constants
- Replaced large debug print code with single clicon_log_xml
- Restconf put and post handling refactored using new parse API
Major New features
* New and updated search functions using xpath, api-path and instance-id
* New search functions using api-path and instance_id:
* C search functions: `clixon_find_instance_id()` and `clixon_find_api_path()`
* Binary search optimization in lists for indexed leafs in all three formats.
* This improves search performance to O(logN) which is drastical improvements for large lists.
* You can also register explicit indexes for making binary search (not only list keys)
* For more info, see docs at [paths](https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/paths.html) and
[search](https://clixon-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/xml.html#searching-in-xml)
API changes on existing features (you may need to change your code)
* On failed validation of leafrefs, error message changed from: `No such leaf` to `No leaf <name> matching path <path>`.
* CLI Error message (clicon_rpc_generate_error()) changed when backend returns netconf error to be more descriptive:
* Original: `Config error: Validate failed. Edit and try again or discard changes: Invalid argument`
* New (example): `Netconf error: application operation-failed Identityref validation failed, undefined not derived from acl-base . Validate failed. Edit and try again or discard changes"
Minor changes
* Test framework
* Added `-- -S <file>` command-line to main example to be able to return any state to main example.
* Added `test/cicd` test scripts for running on a set of other hosts
* C-code restructuring
* clixon_yang.c partitioned and moved code into clixon_yang_parse_lib.c and clixon_yang_module.c and move back some code from clixon_yang_type.c.
* partly to reduce size, but most important to limit code that accesses internal yang structures, only clixon_yang.c does this now.
