Netmiko 4.5.0 Release

New Drivers

• Vertiv MPH PDUs Driver (#3460)
• Garderos GRS Driver (#3429)
• Cisco APIC Driver (Linux) (#3461)
• Alaxala AX2600s and AX3600s Driver (#3462)

Other Major Changes

• Fixes to support PY3.13
• Retire PY3.8 Support
• Add raise_parsing_error parameter to send_command and send_command_timing
• Improve Netmiko cli-tools output formatting behavior
• Adding encryption support to Netmiko cli-tools (#3505)
• Update Netmiko cli_tools to make them more modular and use concurrent features

Other Improvements and bug fixes

• Nokia SRL prompt stripping (#3531)
• Lower Cisco ios priority to eliminate conflicts with ios-xe (#3538)
• Handle MikroTik press enter to continue issue (#3458)
• Add Query Device to ANSI Escape Codes for MikroTik (#3457)
• Fix Mikrotik graceful exit command (#3468)
• Adding support for pysnmp version6 (#3473)
• Linux SSH fix for 'Invalid output from MD5 command' (#3486)
• Add support for md-cli only mode in nokia_sros (#3496)
• Do not explicitly require secondary dependencies (#3515)
• Zyxel fix for next line character in output (#3524)
• Fortinet _preferred_kex settings fix (#3530)
• Sophos fix to allow to allow user to better navigate the interactive menu prompt
• Add bracketed paste mode to ANSI escape codes
• Add 'split-task' to possible vdom configs for Fortinet (#3464)
• Add Bulk encryption utility for .netmiko.yml file
• Documentation and test improvements