Release of RacksDB v0.5.0

[rezib]

Added

• lib:
  • Add racks and racks_tags properties on RacksDBDatacenter specialization class.
  • Add nodes_tags property on RacksDBInfrastructure specialization class.
  • Introduce RacksDBRequestError and RacksDBNotFoundError errors as children of generic RacksDBError.
  • Add tags() method to RacksDB class to search for tags associated to either infrastructures, nodes, datacenters or racks.
• draw:
  • Add rack labels boolean drawing parameter to control presence of rack labels in infrastructure graphical representations, true by default (Drawing parameter to remove racks labels in infrastructures #89).
  • Add row labels boolean drawing parameter to control presence of row labels in infrastructure graphical representations, true by default (Drawing parameter to remove row labels in infrastructures #90).
  • Add many drawings parameters to tune infrastructure axonometric graphical representations.
  • Support axonometric graphical representation of infrastructures (Axonometric infrastructure graphical representation #91→Infrastructures axonometric graphical representations #123).
• cli: Add tags command to retrieve tags associated to objects (Command to return the list of tags used in infrastructure #102).
• web:
  • Add tags endpoint to retrieve tags associated to objects.
  • Support GET method on draw endpoint with drawing parameters as optional request arguments (Support GET method to generate diagrams with drawing parameters in query parameters #66→Support GET method on REST API draw endpoint #122).
• docs:
  • Mention tags command in racksdb manpage.
  • Mention RacksDB.tags() method in library reference documentation.
  • Mention RacksDBDatacenter.{racks,racks_tags} attributes in library reference documentation.
  • Mention RacksDBInfrastructure.nodes_tags attribute in library reference documentation.
  • Add Integrations page with ClusterShell integration howto (Test and document ClusterShell integration #92).
  • Mention axonometric graphical representations in diagrams section of overview page and README.
• pkgs:
  • Add dependency on RFL.log external library.
  • Add test dependency on parameterized external library.

Changed

• cli: Adopt colored logger from RFL.log library (Adopt RFL.log #103).
• web: Update description of HTTP/400 error on draw REST API endpoint in OpenAPI description to mention all new cases.
• draw: change rack pane default color from #000000 (black) to #262626 (dark grey).
• docs:
  • Mention support on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Fedora 40 and 41.
  • Format files and directories paths with specific style in quickstart guide.
  • Update OpenAPI description for REST API documentation.
  • Update drawing parameters reference doc.
  • Add some data in example database.
• pkg: Add tests extra packages with all dependencies required to run unit tests.

Fixed

• Support database files with both .yml and .yaml extensions (Accept DB files with *.yaml extension #101).
• lib: Support infrastructure without tags in infrastructures filter() method.
• core:
  • String representation of computed property.
  • Add current schema object in set of loaded classes to fix resolution of references in some corner cases.
• draw:
  • Detect when unable to find racks to draw in infrastructure and raise specific exception instead of crashing with ZeroDivisionError (ZeroDivisionError when drawing infrastructure and no equipment matches given tags #97→Detect unable to find rack when drawing infrastructure #100).
  • Raise RacksDBDrawingError when drawer is called with an unsupported output image format.
  • Remove unnecessary rack offset at the top of infrastructure graphical representation.
• docs:
  • Wrong APT sources file extension in quickstart guide.
  • Path of system packages examples directory in quickstart guide.
• web:
  • Fix format of array items type description format in OpenAPI description generator.
  • Fix Path type of RacksDBWebBlueprint arguments default values.
  • Setup colored logger from RFL.log library and honor --debug command line option of racksdb-web.
  • Log critical error instead of crashing when racksdb-web is unable to load schema or database (Crash of racksdb-web on schema or DB load error #110).
  • Return HTTP/400 error when draw endpoint is called with unsupported image format.
  • Return HTTP/400 error when draw endpoint is called with unsupported entity.
• ui:
  • Limit specs links size in equipment type modal (Reduce link size in equipment type modal #76).
  • Update bundled dependencies to fix security issues CVE-2024-39338, CVE-2025-27152 (axios), CVE-2024-4068 (braces), CVE-2024-31207, CVE-2024-45812, CVE-2024-45811, CVE-2025-24010, CVE-2025-30208 (vite), CVE-2024-6783 (vue-template-compiler), CVE-2024-37890 (ws), CVE-2024-21538 (cross-spawn), CVE-2024-4067 (micromatch), CVE-2024-47068 (rollup), CVE-2024-55565 (nanoid), CVE-2025-24964 (vitest) and GHSA-67mh-4wv8-2f99 (esbuild).
• pkg: Fix pkg_resources API deprecation error by using importlib module and importlib_metadata external backport library for Python < 3.8 (DeprecationWarning: pkg_resources is deprecated as an API #104).

Removed

• docs: Remove mention of support on Fedora 39 and 38.

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This discussion was created from the release v0.5.0.