The iOS section was written while the policy stopped at the app: the
network extension that runs the engine has its own preferences domain,
and Apple's app-configuration channel does not deliver there. The app
now mirrors the configuration into the shared App Group and tells the
extension when it changes, so the keys the engine applies to the
connection are enforced too.
What replaces the old warning is a timing caveat, which is what an admin
actually needs in order to plan a rollout. The hand-off happens only
while the app is running: in the foreground a change reaches the tunnel
within about 30 seconds or immediately on activation, but iOS suspends a
backgrounded app, so a policy pushed — or withdrawn — in that window
applies the next time the app is opened. A tunnel brought up by VPN On
Demand or the widget therefore runs on the last policy the app saw.
tvOS keeps the old behaviour and now says so: the hand-off needs a shared
app group, which does not work between the tvOS app and its extension, so
only the interface is enforced there.
Also corrected: blockInbound, wireguardPort and lazyConnection are no
longer listed as having no effect but as having no control to lock, and
debugBundleUploadURL moves out of the ignored list, since the engine
applies it when a remote job produces a bundle. The app-config template
carries the same three keys and the same timing note.
The reference table listed 18 of the 23 keys the client recognises, and
claimed a count of 16. Six keys were missing from every downloadable
template as well, including lazyConnection, which the page already
documented:
- lazyConnection, disableAdvancedView, enableLocalMetrics,
localMetricsAddress, allowRemoteJobs and debugBundleUploadURL are now
in the reference table and in netbird.admx/.adml, io.netbird.client.plist,
netbird-macos.mobileconfig, netbird-macos.sh and netbird-policy.reg.
- Notes call out the two pairs that read as related but are not:
disableMetricsCollection (anonymous telemetry) versus
enableLocalMetrics (the client's own Prometheus endpoint), and
disableAdvancedView being UI-only, so unlike its neighbours it never
causes a request to be rejected.
iOS and tvOS now have a section of their own. The channel is Apple's
Managed App Configuration against bundle id io.netbird.app
(io.netbird.app.tv on tvOS), with a new netbird-ios-appconfig.plist
template and per-provider instructions. The section states what the
policy reaches today: the app locks its interface and refuses
configuration changes, while the tunnel engine runs in a Network
Extension that does not receive the app configuration, so keys the
engine applies to the connection are not enforced there yet.
Two template defects found on the way:
- netbird-macos.mobileconfig was not well-formed XML. Its header
comment contained a double hyphen, which XML forbids inside a
comment, so plutil -lint and any strict parser rejected the file an
admin downloaded.
- netbird-policy.reg had one LF-terminated line among CRLF ones;
normalised, with the UTF-16LE encoding reg import requires preserved.
Verified with npm run build and npm run lint:mdx, plus XML well-formedness
on all five XML templates, bash -n on the shell template, and a
cross-reference check that every string and presentation the ADMX
references is defined in the ADML.
* Added list of STUN/TURN/Relay endpoints to FAQ page
* removed port ranges in endpoint list, consilidated ipv6 & ipv6 entries
* turned FQDN field into an array
* pluralized FQDN field for clarity now that it's an array
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Co-authored-by: Ashley Mensah <ashleymensah@Ashleys-MBP.lan>
Co-authored-by: Ashley Mensah <ashley@netbird.io>
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