Release v2.3.0

Author: itdependsnetworks

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+# v2.3 Release Notes
+
+This document describes all new features and changes in the release. The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## Release Overview
+
+- Added the ability to for remote file copy on Cisco NXOS, Cisco ASA, and Arista EOS operating systems.
+
+## [v2.3.0 (2026-04-14)](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/releases/tag/v2.3.0)
+
+### Added
+
+- [#365](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/365) - Added the remote file copy feature to Arista EOS devices.
+- [#365](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/365) - Added unittests for remote file copy on Arista EOS devices.
+- [#366](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/366) - Added ``remote_file_copy``, ``check_file_exists``, ``get_remote_checksum``, and ``verify_file`` support for ``ASADevice`` (FTP, TFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS).
+- [#367](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/367) - Added remote file copy feature to Cisco NXOS devices.
+- [#367](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/367) - Added unittests for remote file copy for Cisco NXOS devices.
+
+### Changed
+
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Improved EOS remote file copy to validate scheme and query strings before connecting, use `clean_url` to prevent credential leakage, and simplify credential routing.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Changed copy command builders to include the source file path in the URL and use `flash:` as the destination, matching EOS CLI conventions.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Fixed `_uptime_to_string` to use integer division, preventing `ValueError` on format specifiers.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Fixed `check_file_exists` and `get_remote_checksum` to open the SSH connection before use, preventing `AttributeError` when called standalone.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Fixed password-prompt handling in `remote_file_copy` to wait for the transfer to complete before proceeding to verification.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Simplified checksum parsing in `get_remote_checksum` to use string splitting instead of regex.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Changed `verify_file` to return early when file does not exist and use case-insensitive checksum comparison.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Removed `include_username` parameter from `remote_file_copy` in favor of automatic credential routing based on scheme and username presence.
+
+### Removed
+
+- [#364](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/364) - Removed log.init from iosxewlc device.
+- [#364](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/364) - Removed warning filter for logging.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- [#366](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/366) - Fixed ``ASADevice._get_file_system`` to use ``re.search`` instead of ``re.match`` so the filesystem label is correctly parsed regardless of leading whitespace in ``dir`` output.
+- [#366](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/366) - Fixed ``ASADevice._send_command`` to anchor the ``%`` error pattern to the start of a line (``^% ``) to prevent false-positive ``CommandError`` raises during file copy operations.
+- [#366](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/366) - Fixed ``ASADevice.active_redundancy_states`` to include ``"disabled"`` so standalone (non-failover) units are correctly treated as active.
+
+### Housekeeping
+
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Converted EOS remote file copy tests from hypothesis/pytest standalone functions to unittest TestCase with `self.assertRaises` and `subTest` for consistency with the rest of the codebase.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Removed duplicate test class `TestRemoteFileCopyCommandExecution` and consolidated into `TestRemoteFileCopy`.
+- [#368](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/368) - Added integration tests for EOS device connectivity and remote file copy across FTP, TFTP, SCP, HTTP, HTTPS, and SFTP protocols.

changes/365.added

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 [tool.poetry]
 name = "pyntc"
-version = "2.2.2a0"
+version = "2.3.0"
 description = "Python library focused on tasks related to device level and OS management."
 authors = ["Network to Code, LLC <opensource@networktocode.com>"]
 readme = "README.md"
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 [tool.towncrier]
 package = "pyntc"
 directory = "changes"
-filename = "docs/admin/release_notes/version_2.2.md"
+filename = "docs/admin/release_notes/version_2.3.md"
 template = "towncrier_template.j2"
 start_string = "<!-- towncrier release notes start -->"
 issue_format = "[#{issue}](https://github.com/networktocode/pyntc/issues/{issue})"