The immediate taskkill runs with the token of whoever launched msiexec. A
non-SYSTEM install cannot terminate a UI running in another user's session,
so keep the deferred CloseApplication, which runs as LocalSystem, to stop it
before InstallFiles. When taskkill already succeeded it finds no process.
The WiX CloseApplication action runs deferred, right before InstallFiles.
By then InstallValidate has already asked Restart Manager about the files
in use. When msiexec runs as LocalSystem (third-party deployment tools,
scheduled tasks) and netbird-ui.exe runs in the interactive user's
session, Restart Manager reports a session mismatch, so the installer
schedules the UI binary for replacement on the next reboot and returns
3010. Killing the UI afterwards is too late, the file stays on the old
version until a real reboot happens.
Replace the CloseApplication with an immediate WixQuietExec custom action
running taskkill /F /IM netbird-ui.exe, scheduled before InstallValidate.
The file is no longer held open when the in-use check runs, InstallFiles
overwrites it directly and no reboot is scheduled. Return is ignored
because taskkill exits non-zero when no UI is running. The action also
runs on uninstall so removal does not require a reboot either.
- **Wails v3 application** (`client/ui`) with a React + TypeScript + Tailwind frontend replacing the Fyne UI: main connection view, exit-node switcher, networks/peers browser with detail panels, profile management, settings (general, network, SSH, security, troubleshooting, appearance), debug-bundle creation, and a first-run welcome flow.
- **Internationalization**: go-i18n bundle with 9 locales (en, de, es, fr, hu, it, pt, ru, zh-CN) shared between the tray and the frontend.
- **New system tray** implementation with per-platform theme-aware icons, including a native XEmbed host for Linux (`xembed_tray_linux.c`) and a Linux theme watcher.
- **Session handling**: auth session watcher (`client/internal/auth/sessionwatch`), pending login flow, session-expiration dialog and tray notifications, and `netbird login` improvements.
- **Daemon API extensions** (`daemon.proto`): status stream subscription, event stream, networks/exit-node selection endpoints, and richer full status — with probe throttling on the daemon side to protect against UI-driven request storms.
- **UI preferences store** persisted per profile, autostart management via the daemon (single source of truth in HKCU on Windows).
- **Build system**: Taskfile-based builds per platform (macOS, Linux, Windows), Docker cross-compilation images, MSIX/NSIS/nfpm/AppImage packaging, and a new `frontend-ui` CI workflow.
Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Eduard Gert <kontakt@eduardgert.de>
Co-authored-by: braginini <bangvalo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Pascal Fischer <32096965+pascal-fischer@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: riccardom <riccardomanfrin@gmail.com>
* fix(client): enable UI autostart for silent and MSI installs
The MSI installer had no autostart logic and the EXE silent installer
skipped the autostart page, leaving the registry entry unwritten. This
caused the NetBird UI tray to not start at login after RMM deployments.
Add an AUTOSTART property (default: 1) to the MSI that writes the
HKLM Run key, and initialize AutostartEnabled in the NSIS .onInit so
silent installs match the interactive default.
* add real guid for NetBirdAutoStart component
By copying the emulator driver next to our binary, our GUI setting popup works on remote desktop connections
the dll is added as part of our sign pipelines workflow
This adds a basic wxs file to build MSI installer
This file was created using docs
from https://wixtoolset.org/docs/schema/wxs/ and
examples from gsudo, qemu-shoggoth, and many others.
The main difference between this and the .exe installer
is that we don't use the netbird service command to install
the daemon
Zoltán Papp