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
CLI: new expose command to publish a local port with flags for PIN, password, user groups, custom domain, name prefix and protocol (HTTP default).
Management/API: create/renew/stop expose sessions (streamed status), automatic naming/domain, TTL renewals, background expiration, new management RPCs and client methods.
UI/API: account settings now include peer_expose_enabled and peer_expose_groups; new activity codes for peer expose events.
Embed Dex as a built-in IdP to simplify self-hosting setup.
Adds an embedded OIDC Identity Provider (Dex) with local user management and optional external IdP connectors (Google/GitHub/OIDC/SAML), plus device-auth flow for CLI login. Introduces instance onboarding/setup endpoints (including owner creation), field-level encryption for sensitive user data, a streamlined self-hosting provisioning script, and expanded APIs + test coverage for IdP management.
more at https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/5008#issuecomment-3718987393
This PR adds user approval functionality to the management system, allowing administrators to manually approve new users joining via domain matching. When enabled, users are blocked with pending approval status until explicitly approved by an admin.
Adds UserApprovalRequired setting to control manual user approval requirement
Introduces user approval and rejection endpoints with corresponding business logic
Prevents pending approval users from adding peers or logging in
adds NetFlow functionality to track and log network traffic information between peers, with features including:
- Flow logging for TCP, UDP, and ICMP traffic
- Integration with connection tracking system
- Resource ID tracking in NetFlow events
- DNS and exit node collection configuration
- Flow API and Redis cache in management
- Memory-based flow storage implementation
- Kernel conntrack counters and userspace counters
- TCP state machine improvements for more accurate tracking
- Migration from net.IP to netip.Addr in the userspace firewall
Implemented inactivity expiration by checking the status of a peer: after a configurable period of time following netbird down, the peer shows login required.
This PR implements the following posture checks:
* Agent minimum version allowed
* OS minimum version allowed
* Geo-location based on connection IP
For the geo-based location, we rely on GeoLite2 databases which are free IP geolocation databases. MaxMind was tested and we provide a script that easily allows to download of all necessary files, see infrastructure_files/download-geolite2.sh.
The OpenAPI spec should extensively cover the life cycle of current version posture checks.
This PR adds support to Owner roles.
The owner role has a similar access level as the admin, but it has the power to delete the account.
Besides that, the role has the following constraints:
- The role can only be transferred. So, only a user with the owner role can transfer the owner role to a new user
- It can't be assigned to users being invited
- It can't be assigned to service users
New activity types for integration creation, update, and deletion have been added to the activity codes. This ensures the tracking of these user activities relating to integrations, which were not previously being logged.
Because we provide the option to regenerate the config files, the encryption key could be lost.
- The configure.sh read the existing key and write it back during the config generation
- Backup the previously generated config files before overwrite it
- Fix invalid json output in the Extras field
- Reduce the error logs in case if the encryption key is invalid
- Response in the events API with valid user info in any cases
- Add extra error handling to the configure.sh. I.e. handle the invalid OpenID urls
Extend the deleted user info with the username
- Because initially, we did not store the user name in the activity db
Sometimes, we can not provide the user name in the API response.
Fix service user deletion
- In case of service user deletion, do not invoke the IdP delete function
- Prevent self deletion
Implement user deletion across all IDP-ss. Expires all user peers
when the user is deleted. Users are permanently removed from a local
store, but in IDP, we remove Netbird attributes for the user
untilUserDeleteFromIDPEnabled setting is not enabled.
To test, an admin user should remove any additional users.
Until the UI incorporates this feature, use a curl DELETE request
targeting the /users/<USER_ID> management endpoint. Note that this
request only removes user attributes and doesn't trigger a delete
from the IDP.
To enable user removal from the IdP, set UserDeleteFromIDPEnabled
to true in account settings. Until we have a UI for this, make this
change directly in the store file.
Store the deleted email addresses in encrypted in activity store.
This PR showcases the implementation of additional linter rules. I've updated the golangci-lint GitHub Actions to the latest available version. This update makes sure that the tool works the same way locally - assuming being updated regularly - and with the GitHub Actions.
I've also taken care of keeping all the GitHub Actions up to date, which helps our code stay current. But there's one part, goreleaser that's a bit tricky to test on our computers. So, it's important to take a close look at that.
To make it easier to understand what I've done, I've made separate changes for each thing that the new linters found. This should help the people reviewing the changes see what's going on more clearly. Some of the changes might not be obvious at first glance.
Things to consider for the future
CI runs on Ubuntu so the static analysis only happens for Linux. Consider running it for the rest: Darwin, Windows
The ephemeral manager keep the inactive ephemeral peers in a linked list. The manager schedule a cleanup procedure to the head of the linked list (to the most deprecated peer). At the end of cleanup schedule the next cleanup to the new head.
If a device connect back to the server the manager will remote it from the peers list.
For better auditing this PR adds a dashboard login event to the management service.
For that the user object was extended with a field for last login that is not actively saved to the database but kept in memory until next write. The information about the last login can be extracted from the JWT claims nb_last_login. This timestamp will be stored and compared on each API request. If the value changes we generate an event to inform about a login.
* Check links of groups before delete it
* Add delete group handler test
* Rename dns error msg
* Add delete group test
* Remove rule check
The policy cover this scenario
* Fix test
* Check disabled management grps
* Change error message
* Add new activity for group delete event
