ktbyers/netmiko

• Improved docstrings
• Arista, Juniper, Calix B6 Telnet support
• Add Linux Secure Copy support
• Minor bug fixes

• Add Juniper secure copy support
• Add Arista secure copy support
• Add IOS-XR secure copy support
• Add new file_transfer function
• Minor bugfixes

• Add generic save_config() method (synchronize running-config to startup-config)
• Add Extreme telnet support
• Add Huawei VRPV8 support
• Minor bug fixes

Fix Windows TextFSM install issue.

Significant features/improvements

• Add serial port connection support
• Integrate TextFSM to send_command and send_command_timing
• Generalize SCP support including adding NX-OS SCP support
• Integrate timeout mechanism to be more generally usable
• Abstract RETURN character
• Generalize telnet support to be more modular.

New Vendors/Platforms/Transports

• Add NetApp cDOT support
• Add Calix B6 support
• Add Coriant support
• Addi FastIron/NetIron telnet support.

Various bugfixes

New Platforms

• Ubiquity EdgeOS

New Features

• Add is_alive() connection verification

Minor bug fixes and misc

• Expand auto detection for more platforms
• Convert debugging print statements to log messages
• Fix Extreme and Enterasys enable issue
• Fixing FastIron RADIUS login issue
• Improve newline_normalization

New Platforms:

• Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch AOS
• Accedian
• MRV Communications OptiSwitch

Fixes:

• Fix Huawei enable mode issue
• Fix Huawei USGv5 and HA mode issue

• Add Extreme WiNG Support
• Expand snmp_autodetect
• Add Paramiko keepalive support
• Raise EOFError if SSH channel closed
• Fixing some re.escape issues

The following change is not backwards compatible

• Fix SSH config file support to be standard host specifier

# Previously you would use host:port specifiers in the SSH config file. 
# Now the format should look as follows.

host jumphost
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/test_rsa
  user admin
  hostname myserver.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

host 10.10.10.70
  user cisco
  hostname 10.10.10.70
  Port 22
  ProxyCommand ssh jumphost nc %h %p

Enhancements/Fixes

• Add support for send_config_set with a string
• Add ASA login support
• Fix bugs with regular expression handling and re.escape
• Improve timing issues with InLine Transfer on large files.
• Integrate to readthedocs
• Add some additional platforms to autodetect
• Make the telnet code easier to reuse

New Drivers / Improved Platform Support

• Add Check Point gaia support
• Add Dell PowerConnect Telnet support
• Improve Extreme EXOS driver