The tray Quit menu now disconnects the daemon before exiting instead of
only tearing down the GUI. A new DownAsync RPC lets the daemon start the
teardown and return immediately: beginDown cancels the connection under
the mutex (so it cannot reconnect), then finishDown (the retry-goroutine
wait and status reset) runs on a background goroutine. handleQuit aborts
any in-flight profile switch first (so a queued Up cannot reconnect during
teardown) and calls DownAsync so quitting never blocks on the engine
shutdown.
* [client] Add autostart preference marker and MDM disableAutostart key
Adds the autostartInitialized marker to the Wails UI preferences store so
the one-time autostart default decision can persist per OS user, and a
UI-only disableAutostart MDM policy key that suppresses the default and
flows into GetConfigResponse.mDMManagedFields like disableAutoConnect.
* [client] Enable launch-on-login by default on fresh GUI installs
On the first interactive run the GUI persists the autostartInitialized
marker before any enable attempt, then enables autostart only when the
platform supports it, MDM policy does not disable it, the process was not
relaunched by an installer/updater (--post-update), and the installer's
fresh-install breadcrumb is present. Upgrading users have no breadcrumb,
so an update can never write login items, and a user's disable in
Settings is never overridden.
* [release] Write fresh-install breadcrumb from installers
Installers write a .fresh-install breadcrumb on fresh installs only and
delete stale breadcrumbs on upgrade; none of them writes login items or
registry Run keys. Windows NSIS detects upgrades via the uninstall
registry entry or an existing installed executable; the macOS pkg via the
previous pkgutil receipt; Linux deb/rpm via the standard postinstall
arguments. Post-update GUI relaunches (macOS open, Linux
ui-post-install.sh) pass --post-update so the first-run autostart default
cannot fire on updates.
* Revert installer breadcrumb changes
The real Windows installer does uninstall-then-install and deletes
$INSTDIR, so a breadcrumb written there cannot survive or discriminate
a fresh install from an upgrade. Restore the three installer files to
their main versions; no installer or updater writes an autostart entry.
* Detect fresh install from NetBird footprint instead of installer breadcrumb
Replace the installer-written breadcrumb discriminator with a GUI-side
check. netbirdFootprintExists inspects the daemon config/state files
(default.json, legacy config.json, state.json) under profilemanager's
default config dir; combined with whether the UI preferences file already
existed, this tells a genuinely fresh machine from an existing or
upgrading user. Only the signed GUI, via Wails, ever enables
launch-on-login, and a user's later manual disable is never overridden.
The preferences store now exposes ExistedAtLoad and the --post-update
flag is dropped.
* Update tests for footprint-based autostart default
Table tests for shouldEnableAutostartDefault now cover supported,
mdmDisabled, and priorInstall guards plus precedence; breadcrumb and
post-update cases are removed. Add a store test asserting ExistedAtLoad
is false with no file and true after persisting and reopening.
* [client] Bring the connection up in Go after SSO login
The post-login Up ran as a frontend promise continuation after WaitSSOLogin
resolved. During SSO the tray window is hidden and the webview is suspended
(macOS App Nap / hidden-window timer throttling), so that continuation didn't
run until the user woke the window (e.g. hovering the tray icon), leaving the
client not connected for a long time. Combine WaitSSOLogin and Up in a single
Go method so the daemon connects the moment SSO completes, independent of
webview state. The frontend no longer issues a separate Up on the SSO path.
* [client] unexport waitSSOLogin and move below exported methods
Users reported long delays between finishing browser authentication and
the client connecting. Logs could not attribute the time: the PKCE and
device flows were silent between issuing the auth URL and returning the
token, and nothing recorded when the GUI issued the Up request after
WaitSSOLogin completed.
Add log lines covering the full chain: PKCE callback arrival and token
exchange duration, device-flow polling and approval timing, GUI-side
brackets around WaitSSOLogin and Up, daemon-side Up arrival and
WaitSSOLogin return, and a frontend stall detector that reports when
webview timers were suspended (macOS App Nap / hidden-window
throttling), which delays the WaitSSOLogin-to-Up handoff.
- **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>
