Auto-update logic moved out of the UI into a dedicated updatemanager.Manager service that runs in the connection layer. The
UI no longer polls or checks for updates independently.
The update manager supports three modes driven by the management server's auto-update policy:
No policy set by mgm: checks GitHub for the latest version and notifies the user (previous behavior, now centralized)
mgm enforces update: the "About" menu triggers installation directly instead of just downloading the file — user still initiates the action
mgm forces update: installation proceeds automatically without user interaction
updateManager lifecycle is now owned by daemon, giving the daemon server direct control via a new TriggerUpdate RPC
Introduces EngineServices struct to group external service dependencies passed to NewEngine, reducing its argument count from 11 to 4
This PR improves the NetBird client's status checking mechanism by implementing earlier detection of client state changes and better handling of connection lifecycle management. The key improvements focus on:
• Enhanced status detection - Added waitForReady option to StatusRequest for improved client status handling
• Better connection management - Improved context handling for signal and management gRPC connections• Reduced connection timeouts - Increased gRPC dial timeout from 3 to 10 seconds for better reliability
• Cleaner error handling - Enhanced error propagation and context cancellation in retry loops
Key Changes
Core Status Improvements:
- Added waitForReady optional field to StatusRequest proto (daemon.proto:190)
- Enhanced status checking logic to detect client state changes earlier in the connection process
- Improved handling of client permanent exit scenarios from retry loops
Connection & Context Management:
- Fixed context cancellation in management and signal client retry mechanisms
- Added proper context propagation for Login operations
- Enhanced gRPC connection handling with better timeout management
Error Handling & Cleanup:
- Moved feedback channels to upper layers for better separation of concerns
- Improved error handling patterns throughout the client server implementation
- Fixed synchronization issues and removed debug logging
This will allow running netbird commands (including debugging) against the daemon and provide a flow similar to non-container usages.
It will by default both log to file and stderr so it can be handled more uniformly in container-native environments.
With the lazy connection feature, the peer will connect to target peers on-demand. The trigger can be any IP traffic.
This feature can be enabled with the NB_ENABLE_EXPERIMENTAL_LAZY_CONN environment variable.
When the engine receives a network map, it binds a free UDP port for every remote peer, and the system configures WireGuard endpoints for these ports. When traffic appears on a UDP socket, the system removes this listener and starts the peer connection procedure immediately.
Key changes
Fix slow netbird status -d command
Move from engine.go file to conn_mgr.go the peer connection related code
Refactor the iface interface usage and moved interface file next to the engine code
Add new command line flag and UI option to enable feature
The peer.Conn struct is reusable after it has been closed.
Change connection states
Connection states
Idle: The peer is not attempting to establish a connection. This typically means it's in a lazy state or the remote peer is expired.
Connecting: The peer is actively trying to establish a connection. This occurs when the peer has entered an active state and is continuously attempting to reach the remote peer.
Connected: A successful peer-to-peer connection has been established and communication is active.
* [client] Support Extra DNS Labels for Peer Addressing
* [management] Support Extra DNS Labels for Peer Addressing
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Co-authored-by: Viktor Liu <17948409+lixmal@users.noreply.github.com>
This update adds new relay integration for NetBird clients. The new relay is based on web sockets and listens on a single port.
- Adds new relay implementation with websocket with single port relaying mechanism
- refactor peer connection logic, allowing upgrade and downgrade from/to P2P connection
- peer connections are faster since it connects first to relay and then upgrades to P2P
- maintains compatibility with old clients by not using the new relay
- updates infrastructure scripts with new relay service
* Enable network monitoring by default for Windows and Darwin
* Enable network monitoring by default on Windows and macOS
* fix merge
* Prevent updating config if no changes
* compile client under freebsd (#1620)
Compile netbird client under freebsd and now support netstack and userspace modes.
Refactoring linux specific code to share same code with FreeBSD, move to *_unix.go files.
Not implemented yet:
Kernel mode not supported
DNS probably does not work yet
Routing also probably does not work yet
SSH support did not tested yet
Lack of test environment for freebsd (dedicated VM for github runners under FreeBSD required)
Lack of tests for freebsd specific code
info reporting need to review and also implement, for example OS reported as GENERIC instead of FreeBSD (lack of FreeBSD icon in management interface)
Lack of proper client setup under FreeBSD
Lack of FreeBSD port/package
* Add DNS routes (#1943)
Given domains are resolved periodically and resolved IPs are replaced with the new ones. Unless the flag keep_route is set to true, then only new ones are added.
This option is helpful if there are long-running connections that might still point to old IP addresses from changed DNS records.
* Add process posture check (#1693)
Introduces a process posture check to validate the existence and active status of specific binaries on peer systems. The check ensures that files are present at specified paths, and that corresponding processes are running. This check supports Linux, Windows, and macOS systems.
Co-authored-by: Evgenii <mail@skillcoder.com>
Co-authored-by: Pascal Fischer <pascal@netbird.io>
Co-authored-by: Zoltan Papp <zoltan.pmail@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Viktor Liu <17948409+lixmal@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Bethuel Mmbaga <bethuelmbaga12@gmail.com>
This changes the default behavior for new peers, by requiring the agent to be executed with allow-server-ssh set to true in order for the management configuration to take effect.
With these changes, the command up supports the flag --disable-auto-connect that allows users to disable auto connection on the client after a computer restart or when the daemon restarts.
* replace the preshared key attribute in LoginRequest protobuff with an optional replacement
* mark old field as deprecated
* fix ui client to also keep preshared key
This PR aims to integrate Rosenpass with NetBird. It adds a manager for Rosenpass that starts a Rosenpass server and handles the managed peers. It uses the cunicu/go-rosenpass implementation. Rosenpass will then negotiate a pre-shared key every 2 minutes and apply it to the wireguard connection.
The Feature can be enabled by setting a flag during the netbird up --enable-rosenpass command.
If two peers are both support and have the Rosenpass feature enabled they will create a post-quantum secure connection. If one of the peers or both don't have this feature enabled or are running an older version that does not have this feature yet, the NetBird client will fall back to a plain Wireguard connection without pre-shared keys for those connections (keeping Rosenpass negotiation for the rest).
Additionally, this PR includes an update of all Github Actions workflows to use go version 1.21.0 as this is a requirement for the integration.
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Co-authored-by: braginini <bangvalo@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Maycon Santos <mlsmaycon@gmail.com>
* update cli commands to respect an empty string and handle different from undefined
* remove test for unintended behaviour
* remove test for unintended behaviour
* Add DNS list argument for mobile client
* Write testable code
Many places are checked the wgInterface != nil condition.
It is doing it just because to avoid the real wgInterface creation for tests.
Instead of this involve a wgInterface interface what is moc-able.
* Refactor the DNS server internal code structure
With the fake resolver has been involved several
if-else statement and generated some unused
variables to distinguish the listener and fake
resolver solutions at running time. With this
commit the fake resolver and listener based
solution has been moved into two separated
structure. Name of this layer is the 'service'.
With this modification the unit test looks
simpler and open the option to add new logic for
the permanent DNS service usage for mobile
systems.
* Remove is running check in test
We can not ensure the state well so remove this
check. The test will fail if the server is not
running well.
Add new feature to notify the user when new client route has arrived.
Refactor the initial route handling. I move every route logic into the route
manager package.
* Add notification management for client rules
* Export the route notification for Android
* Compare the notification based on network range instead of id.
