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Cisco NDFC Ansible Collection Release Notes

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Release Versions

3.11.0

Release Date: 2026-03-13

Added

  • Added support for External fabric type in the dcnm_fabric module
  • Added support for the following parameters in the dcnm_interface module
    • enable_qos
    • qos_policy
    • `queuing_policy

Fixed

3.10.0

Release Date: 2026-02-05

Added

  • Added Multisite Support
    • Collection now supports both Multi-Site Domain MSD and Multi-Cluster Fabric Group MCFG
    • dcnm_fabric_group - Module for fabric group management
    • Added support to dcnm_vrf and dcnm_network modules for Multi-Site fabrics
  • Added support for a new dhcp_servers parameter in the dcnm_network module to configure up to 16 DHCP servers
    • This parameter replaces the existing dhcp_srvr1_ip, dhcp_srvr2_ip, and dhcp_srvr3_ip parameters
    • The old parameters are deprecated but will continue to work for backward compatibility

Fixed

3.9.1

Release Date: 2025-10-27

Added

  • Added support to increase the number of DHCP servers from 3 to 16 using the dcnm_network module
  • Added documentation to the dcnm_fabric module for ENABLE_RT_INTF_STATS and INTF_STAT_LOAD_INTERVAL properties

Fixed

3.9.0

Release Date: 2025-09-22

Added

  • Added support for the following parameters in the dcnm_interface module
    • disable_lacp_suspend_individual
    • enable_cdp
    • enable_lacp_vpc_convergence
    • enable_monitor
    • enable_pfc
    • lacp_port_priority
    • lacp_rate
  • Added support for eBGP fabric type in the dcnm_fabric module
  • Added support for the following parameters in the dcnm_vrf module
    • l3vni_wo_vlan
    • v6_redist_direct_rmap
  • Added support for x-www-form-urlencoded encoding in the dcnm_rest module
  • Added httpapi connection plugin support for ND4.1
  • Refactored and improved various module integration tests

Fixed

3.8.1

Release Date: 2025-07-02

Added

  • Enhanced integration tests for the dcnm_network and dcnm_interface modules
  • Refactored support for breakout interfaces to fix workflow issues in the dcnm_interface module

Fixed

3.8.0

Release Date: 2025-06-02

Added

  • Updated dcnm_interface module to support the following
    • Breakout Interfaces
    • New properties native_vlan, orphan_port, duplex, peer1_native_vlan, peer2_native_vlan, route_tag
    • Ability to manage admin_state, description and cmds properties for PortChannel and vPC member interfaces

Fixed

3.7.0

Release Date: 2025-02-28

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_log - Module for logging messages based on environment variable NDFC_LOGGING_CONFIG
  • Dynamic inventory for ansible-dcnm repository integration tests
  • Support for virtual peer link in dcnm_vpc_pair module
  • Support for pre-provision workflows when using dcnm_vpc_pair and dcnm_interface module
  • Support for port-channel sub-interfaces in dcnm_interface module

Fixed

3.6.0

Release Date: 2024-11-11

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_bootflash - Module for bootflash management for Nexus switches
    • dcnm_maintenance_mode - Module for Maintentance Mode Configuration of Nexus switches
  • The following new features are added to existing modules in this release
    • dcnm_policy - Flag to use the description parameter as the unique key for policy management
    • dcnm_fabric - Added ISN Fabric Type Support

Fixed

3.5.1

Release Date: 2024-06-13

Fixed

  • Fix for ansible-sanity errors in code and documentation
  • Updates to supported ansible version

3.5.0

Release Date: 2024-05-14

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_image_upgrade - Module for managing NDFC image upgrade
    • dcnm_image_upload - Module for managing NDFC image upload
    • dcnm_image_policy - Module for managing NDFC image policy
    • dcnm_vpc_pair - Module for managing dcnm NDFC vPC switch pairs
    • dcnm_fabric - Module for managing NDFC fabrics

Fixed

  • #276
  • #278
  • Fix for inventory issue when non-zero max hop value is set.
  • Fix for enhanced error reporting in inventory module.
  • Fix for config not required for overridden state.
  • Fix for switch role based default ethernet interface policy.

3.4.3

Release Date: 2023-10-26

Added

  • Support to attach network to TOR switches paired with leaf and its interfaces

3.4.2

Release Date: 2023-09-11

Added

  • Support for following parameters in dcnm_links module
    • mpls_fabric
    • peer1_sr_mpls_index
    • peer2_sr_mpls_index
    • global_block_range
    • dci_routing_proto
    • ospf_area_id
    • dci_routing_tag
  • Support for ext_vxlan_mpls_overlay_setup and ext_vxlan_mpls_underlay_setup templates in dcnm_links module
  • Support for secondary_ipv4_addr for loopback interfaces in dcnm_interface module
  • Support for fabric and mpls loopback interfaces in dcnm_interface module
  • Support for import_evpn_rt and export_evpn_rt in dcnm_vrf module

Fixed

3.4.1

Release Date: 2023-08-17

There is no functional difference between collection version 3.4.0 and collection version 3.4.1. This version is only being published as a hotfix to resolve a problem where the wrong version was inadvertently published to Ansible galaxy.

3.4.0

Release Date: 2023-08-16

Added

  • Support for save and deploy options in dcnm_inventory module.
  • Support for discovery_username and discovery_password in dcnm_inventory module.
  • Support for login domain in connection plugin.

Fixed

  • Fix for deploy flag behaviour in inferface module. Config will not be deployed to switches if deploy flag is set to false. When deploy flag is set to true in task and if any of the switch in that task is not manageable or the fabric in task is read-only, then an error is returned without making any changes in the NDFC corresponding to that task.

3.3.1

Release Date: 2023-07-13

Fixed

3.3.0

Release Date: 2023-05-23

Added

  • Support to configure multiple interfaces for vrf_lite on a vrf
  • Added support for more switch roles in inventory module.

Fixed

  • #204
  • #205
  • #206
  • Removed the restriction on netcommon version supported by DCNM collection. The restriction was introduced as fix for #209. Netcommon versions >=2.6.1 is supported.

3.2.0

Release Date: 2023-04-20

Added

  • Support for fex interfaces in interface module

Fixed

3.1.1

Release Date: 2023-03-17

Fixed

  • Restrict installs of netcommon to versions >=2.6.1,<=4.1.0 due to issue: #209

3.1.0

Release Date: 2023-03-14

Added

  • Support for all config parameters in network module
  • Support for all config parameters in vrf module

Fixed

3.0.0

Release Date: 2023-02-22

Added

  • RMA support in dcnm_inventory module

Fixed

2.4.0

Release Date: 2022-11-17

Added

  • POAP support in dcnm_inventory module
  • SVI interface support in dcnm_interface module

Fixed

  • Fix for a problem where networks cannot be deleted when detach/undeploy fails and network is in an out of sync state.
  • Fix default value for multicast_group_address property in dcnm_network

2.3.0

Release Date: 2022-10-28

Added

  • Added the ability to configure the multicast_group_address to the dcnm_network module

2.2.0

Release Date: 2022-10-14

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_links - Module for managing dcnm links

Fixed

2.1.1

Release Date: 2022-08-18

Fixed

  • Changed the deploy mechanism of policy module for delete state.

2.1.0

Release Date: 2022-07-19

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_resource_manager - Module for managing dcnm resources. Reference Info

Fixed

  • #151
  • #143
  • #141
  • #139
  • #137
  • #134
  • #112
  • Fixed Restapi used in version detection mechanism in module utils.
  • Fixed Restapi used in various modules to support the latest api's.
  • Fixed deploy knob behavior for vrf and network module to align with GUI functionality.
  • Fixed idempotence issue in interface module.
  • Fixed diff generation issue for network deletion with NDFC.

Deprecated

  • Deploy knob for individual attachments in vrf and network modules has been marked for deprecation.

2.0.1

Release Date: 2022-01-28

Fixed httpapi plugin issue preventing connections to latest version of NDFC (Version: 12.0.2f)

2.0.0

Release Date: 2021-12-13

Added

  • Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller (NDFC) support for all collection modules
  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_service_route_peering - Module for managing dcnm service route peering
    • dcnm_service_policy - Module for managing dcnm service policy
    • dcnm_service_node - Module for managing dcnm service nodes
  • New parameter check_deploy in dcnm_interface
  • Performance improvement of dcnm_inventory module.

Fixed

  • #101
  • #87
  • #86
  • Fix dcnm_policy module configuration deploy issues

1.2.4

Release Date: 2021-12-03

Added

  • Added support for configuring the loopback ID for DHCP Relay interface.
  • The feature is configured using the dhcp_loopback_id parameter in the dcnm_network module

1.2.3

Release Date: 2021-11-16

Fixed

Fixed a problem with dcnm_interface module where VPCID resource was not being created and then reserved properly

1.2.2

Release Date: 2021-10-21

Fixed

Fixed error code handling that was causing an error during authentication

1.2.1

Release Date: 2021-10

Added

Added support for plain text payloads to dcnm_rest module

1.2.0

Release Date: 2021-07

Added

The following parameters were added to the cisco.dcnm.dcnm_network module:

  • New parameter is_l2only:
  • New parameter vlan_name:
  • New parameter int_desc:
  • New parameter mtu_l3intf:`
  • New parameter arp_suppress:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr1_ip:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr1_vrf:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr2_ip:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr2_vrf:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr3_ip:
  • New parameter dhcp_srvr3_vrf:

1.1.1

Release Date: 2021-05

Fixed

1.1.0

Release Date: 2021-04

Added

  • The following new modules are included in this release
    • dcnm_policy - Module for managing dcnm policies
    • dcnm_template - Module for managing dcnm templates
  • The dcnm_vrf and dcnm_network modules have been extended to support multisite fabrics

Fixed

  • Bug fixes
  • Support for DCNM 11.5(1) release

1.0.0

Release Date: 2020-09

Added

  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_network: - New parameter routing_tag:

Changed

  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_network:
    • The vlan_id: parameter must be configured under the config: block instead of the attach: block.
    • A warning will be generated informing the user to move the vlan_id: under the config: block.
    • If the user does not specify the vlan_id it will be auto generated by DCNM.
  • cisco.dcnm_dcnm_interface:

    • The various profile_*: parameters have now been modified to just profile:.

    • The playbook with the old profile_*: names will still be accepted but a warning message will be generated to change the playbook.

    • When specifying switches for a vpc interface type the switches should be a flat yaml list instead of a nested yaml list. Both formats will still be accepted.

      Proper Format:

      switch:                           # provide switches of vPC pair
  - "{{ ansible_switch1 }}"
  - "{{ ansible_switch2 }}"

      Incorrect Format:

      switch:                           # provide switches of vPC pair
  - ["{{ ansible_switch1 }}",
     "{{ ansible_switch2 }}"]

Fixed

  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_rest: - Module will return a failure now if the return code from DCNM is 400 or greater.

0.9.0

Release Date: 2020-07

  • Initial release of the Ansible DCNM collection, supporting DCNM release 11.4

Added

The Ansible Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) collection includes modules to help automate common day 2 operations for VXLAN EVPN fabrics.

  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_rest - Send REST API requests to DCNM controller.
  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_inventory - Add and remove Switches from a DCNM managed VXLAN fabric.
  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_vrf - Add and remove VRFs from a DCNM managed VXLAN fabric.
  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_network - Add and remove Networks from a DCNM managed VXLAN fabric.
  • cisco.dcnm.dcnm_interface - DCNM Ansible Module for managing interfaces.