rn 0.63.0

Author: hellt

docs/rn/0.63.md

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+# Release 0.63
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+:material-calendar: 2025-01-30 · :material-list-status: [Full Changelog](https://github.com/srl-labs/containerlab/releases)
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+## `sudo`-less Containerlab
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+I bet for many users prepending `clab` with `sudo` has become a pattern our finger muscles have remembered for years. Time to get rid of this habit.
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+Thanks to @vista- work in #2408, Containerlab 0.63.0 ships one of its biggest quality of life features - the ability to run containerlab without `sudo`! Now, hold your horses, it doesn't mean you can run it as a regular user, the need for privileged access is still required to manage Linux things that we do. But now we do this in a more smart and user-friendly way.
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+Read more about it [in the docs](../install.md#sudo-less-operation) and enjoy!
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+Given the sheer blast radius this change brings, we are eager to hear your feedback. Ping us on Discord.
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+## Gomplate is gone, so does the bloat
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+For a couple of years Containerlab binary had a dependency on [gomplate](https://github.com/hairyhenderson/gomplate) - a tool that delivers advanced templating capabilities, but does it at a cost of 30MB of binary size. Since we never really used much of gomplate's features, we decided to remove it and add missing templating features based on the users feedback/request.
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+Containerlab binary size went down from 80 to 40 MB.
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+## Miscellaneous
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+* fixed environment substitution so that unset variables are not substituted #2424
+* new command: `clab version check` to check if a newer version is available #2420 by @FloSch62
+* oepnconfig server enabled by default for SR Linux #2421

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           - 5-stage Clos topology: lab-examples/templated02.md
       - Generic VM: lab-examples/generic_vm01.md
   - Release notes:
+      - "0.63": rn/0.63.md
       - "0.62": rn/0.62.md
       - "0.61": rn/0.61.md
       - "0.60": rn/0.60.md