netbox-community/netbox-reorder-rack v1.1.5

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v1.1.5

The front-end upgrades below cross two major versions of Gridstack, and the minimum supported
NetBox version rises to 4.7, so this is a larger release than its patch-level number suggests.

Breaking Changes

• NetBox 4.7 is now the minimum. The reorder page is built from NetBox's declarative UI
  components and imports netbox.ui.breadcrumbs, which 4.7 introduced, so the plugin no longer
  imports at all on 4.3 to 4.6. Those versions should stay on 1.1.4. See
  COMPATIBILITY.md.

Bug Fixes

• Devices less than a whole rack unit tall now render and save correctly
  (#25,
  #35). The elevation is
  drawn on a grid of half-unit rows, but a device's height was truncated to a whole number
  before being converted into rows. A 1.5U device was drawn 1U tall, and a 0.5U device was
  given a height of zero rows. Half-unit devices were also placed one row above where they
  belong, so the reorder page disagreed with NetBox's own elevation and subsequent saves
  failed for want of space.

• Reordering devices no longer fails when they shift into one another's units
  (#34). Saving a
  layout applied each device's new position one at a time, validating each one against the
  units still held by the devices that had not been saved yet. Dropping a device into a rack
  so that the devices below it shift down therefore failed with an error such as
  U8 is already occupied or does not have sufficient space to accommodate this device type,
  naming whichever device was validated before the one beneath it had moved out of the way.
  The unit reported depended on the order the grid happened to list the devices in.

• Gridstack upgraded from 10.1.2 to 12.6.0, matching the version NetBox ships.

  Two breaking changes in that range were fixed:

  • addWidget() stopped accepting an HTMLElement in v11. Copying a full-depth device to
    the opposite rack face passed a cloned element, which logged a console error on every
    drop before falling back internally. It now calls makeWidget().
  • disableOneColumnMode was removed in v12.1.0 and had become a silently ignored option.
    Responsive column collapsing is now opt-in via columnOpts, which is absent from
    Gridstack's defaults, so omitting the option preserves the fixed layout it requested.

• Bootstrap pinned to 5.3.8, matching NetBox. The plugin now imports Toast directly from
  bootstrap/js/dist/toast.js rather than from the package entry point.

Other Changes

• The reorder page now uses NetBox's declarative UI components. ReorderView is a
  generic.ObjectView carrying a SimpleLayout, with the elevation embedded as a
  TemplatePanel — the same approach NetBox uses for its own rack elevations. The page also
  registers a ViewTab, so it appears as a tab on the rack rather than a standalone page.

  This fixes chrome that never rendered. The template previously extended
  base/layout.html and hand-copied NetBox's breadcrumbs, object identifier, subtitle and
  tab strip; base/layout.html defines no subtitle, tabs or content-wrapper blocks,
  and Django ignores unknown blocks silently, so the subtitle and tab strip were absent on
  every page load. Both now render. rack.html drops from 143 lines to 18, keeping only the
  CSS and JavaScript blocks a panel cannot reach.

• Fixed a duplicated gs-locked attribute in the rack elevation template. Because HTML
  uses the first of a duplicated attribute, the literal gs-locked="false" overrode the
  permission-derived value that followed it, so rear-face devices were never lock-flagged for
  users without change permission. Dragging was still prevented by gs-no-move, which was not
  duplicated, so this weakened the lock rather than bypassing permissions. It was also the
  outstanding djlint H037 error, so pre-commit now passes.

• All four outstanding dependency advisories resolved (braces, picomatch, immutable,
  esbuild). None was reachable by users — all were build-time only, and none appears in the
  shipped bundle. Three came solely from esbuild-sass-plugin → sass → chokidar, which was
  removed: there are no .scss files and the stylesheet uses no Sass features, so esbuild
  bundles the plain CSS natively. The CSS output is byte-identical. esbuild was upgraded to
  0.28.2 for the remaining advisory. yarn audit now reports no vulnerabilities, and the
  install dropped from over 200 audited packages to 29.

• Every front-end dependency is now pinned exactly, with no ^ or ~ ranges. Gridstack
  and Bootstrap so they cannot drift from the versions NetBox serves; esbuild because it is
  pre-1.0 and because it determines the bytes of the committed bundle.

• Removed package-lock.json. The project carried both it and yarn.lock, which
  disagreed about peer dependencies — the direct cause of the Bootstrap build fragility above.
  yarn.lock is retained: it is the original lockfile, and NetBox core is also locked with
  yarn.

Housekeeping

• Added API regression tests for the save endpoint: shifting a column of devices down by one,
  and two devices exchanging units. Both fail against the previous save logic.

• Documentation restructured into an MkDocs site, with the compatibility matrix moved out of
  the README into COMPATIBILITY.md. A duplicated v4.1.x row was removed from the matrix in
  the process.

• docs/img/development.md moved to docs/development.md — it is a development guide, not an
  image — and expanded to cover installing the JavaScript toolchain, which it previously
  omitted entirely, so a fresh clone could not build the bundle.

• Corrected issue and repository links, which pointed at a repository that no longer hosts
  this plugin.

Earlier Releases

Releases prior to this change log are recorded on the
GitHub releases page, with
their supported NetBox versions in
COMPATIBILITY.md.