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@blademd blademd released this 19 May 15:00
v0.1.8
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This is the first stable release of Thymus, alpha is in the past. It was mostly written from scratch as there is a huge enhancement: the introduction of the editor mode.

New

  • The PyPI package!
  • The working screen modes: view for viewing and navigating a configuration, and edit for editing an exact path.
  • The edit command, enters the edit mode and displays a text editor with the content of the current path.
  • The commit command, creates a new context from the default one.
  • The rollback command, rolls back a current context to the selected snapshot.
  • The save command, saves all snapshots to a special .history file. Thymus loads this file automatically alongside the config file.
  • The application and platforms settings interface (Ctrl+s), no more typing! It includes user-defined aliases for every possible command and sub-command.
  • XR-OS support.
  • The sub-commands diff, and compare (or whatever you specified as an alias) for the command show support the additional keyword rollback. It takes one positional argument - a number of the context (e.g. show | compare rollback 1) and allows a user to see the difference between the specified context and the current one. The show command supports a relative path for this mode.
  • Themes change a background color in the view mode. It facilitates a better readability of colors in different modes (night vs. day).
  • The edit mode displays a new floating widget with a dynamic number of already displayed lines. The widget can stop the loading of the config and exit the edit mode by clicking on it. It helps not to be stuck at lengthy configs.
  • The new setting save on commit, automatically runs the save command after every successful commit command. It does not apply to the rollback command.
  • The new setting editor frequency factor, governs the amount of time the editor sleeps between two consequent chunks of lines. The default is 4 which is 0.4 seconds. The fastest mode is 0.2 seconds now.
  • The new setting editor scale factor, multiplied by the current application height (a vertical window size) gives a count of lines per every displayed chunk. Combined with the frequency factor can improve the loading of the content after the edit command, but it can hang the application down.
  • The new sub-command reveal for the JunOS platform, shows all secret data which is hidden by default now.

Changes

  • Thymus requires Python 3.9. It can probably run with Python 3.8.1+ but it is now unsupported mode.
  • The settings file is redesigned, its version is two now. Platform settings are placed in separate files.
  • The logging config file is united with the global one.
  • The logging widget requires a manual refresh by r.
  • The CLI-er version is no longer shipped and supported.
  • The global command is obsolete and removed.
  • The logging screen now is a part of the settings menu.
  • The hotkeys n and p for the working screen are removed.
  • The working screen footer is made from scratch. It lacks the number of lines now.
  • A user can't change the theme from the working screen.
  • Some old settings are gone.

Enhancement

  • In the view mode Thymus continuously draws a full configuration in a separate thread, no need to scroll down to display the next chunk.
  • JunOS hid any secret data by default now.

Fixes

  • The netloader module had several issues related to private key signing.
  • Lots of tiny fixes due to the fundamental refactoring.

Known issues

  • The screenshot function is currently unavailable (I forgot about it lol).
  • XR-OS does not support syntax highlighting.
  • The edit mode also does not support syntax highlighting.
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