NetBird v0.78.0

Release Notes for v0.78.0

Highlights

• Rosenpass now works through the embedded reverse proxy (#6763). Until now the proxy ran no Rosenpass at all, so peers with Rosenpass enabled failed to establish through it on a PSK mismatch — an incompatibility that was never documented. The proxy now runs Rosenpass in permissive mode, so it connects both to Rosenpass-enabled peers and, exactly as before, to peers without it. NB_PROXY_ROSENPASS=false turns it off.
• Lazy connections reworked: per-peer lazy state, proxy peers lazy by default, and the lazy exclusion list removed (#6762, #6763).
• Agent Network / LLM gateway: agentgateway integration, access roles and self-service endpoints, Bedrock model discovery served from the control plane, guardrail allowlists for declared model ids, and the endpoint conformed to the LLM gateway protocol (#7274, #7221, #7250, #7239, #7154, #7389, #7246).
• DNS on Windows: a catch-all NRPT rule when NetBird is the primary resolver (#7071), closing the leak/poisoning window towards the system resolvers. Use netbird service reconfigure --service-env NB_USE_LEGACY_DNS_RESOLUTION=true to restore the old behavior.
• Local Prometheus metrics endpoint on the client (#6689).
• Go 1.26 and go-quic v0.62.0 across client, relay and management (#7359).
• Unified ACL filtering for peers and routes, with multi-source rules (#6322). An internal refactor: no change is expected for standard deployments.
• Ukrainian localization for the desktop client (#7035).

Behaviour changes

• Remote jobs (remote debug bundle and friends) are now behind an admin opt-in, with MDM support (#7153). Anyone using them without the opt-in has to enable it.
• Remote debug bundle jobs accept an anonymization level and an upload URL (#7147).
• The client stays connected during the login command (#7384).
• Logging out of the active profile is allowed even when profiles are disabled (#7360).
• Profiles resolve for the invoking sudo user rather than for root (#7238).
• NetBird traffic stays out of third-party fwmark rules (#7314).
• GUI windows are created on demand and destroyed on close (#7096).
• Android split tunnelling: the mode is typed rather than stored as a string, and settings are kept per profile (#7387, #7349).

Security / hardening

• The cached SSH JWT is bound to the local caller that obtained it (#7378).
• The WireGuard key is no longer logged on a parse failure (#7379).
• The client asks the OS for privileges when a guarded SSH setting is changed (#7066).
• The proxy validates header auth (#7263).
• Management checks a provider's URL and credential before saving them (#7301).
• Clarified that X-Peer-ID on metrics ingest is not a credential (#7363).
• The old math/rand library is gone from management (#6836).

Client — fixes

• Fixed the ICEBind races that wedge interface creation (#7377).
• agentConnecting is dropped whenever the ICE session state clears (#7327).
• A peer offer or answer arriving before the handshaker starts listening is held rather than lost (#7255).
• Connections are swept on network loss through a shared netevents manager (#7254).
• Route selection survives an invalid request and is applied on a partial one (#7292).
• The session-expiration dialog closes only on renewal (#7337).
• A still-locked updater binary is tolerated when cleaning up after an update (#7286).
• Fixed context cancellation during restart on iOS (#7329).
• iOS SSO logins reuse the profile's account (#7193).
• The iOS profile manager was migrated from Swift to Go (#6528).
• The PCP implementation moved to the go-nat fork (#7282).
• Reverted multi-buffer support declared for the loopback XDP program (#7303).
• The Android TUN is renewed only when the routes it carries actually change (#7396).
• Overlay listeners are rebuilt when the TUN is renewed (#7397).
• The remote jobs opt-in is exposed in the Android and iOS SDK preferences (#7406).

Management — fixes

• Fixed geolocation panics (#7382).
• Fixed private services calculation on the new db path (#7383).
• Fixed posture check evaluation for direct peers in policy definitions (#7348) and the affected peers calculation on a posture check flip (#7347).
• Handled the nil pointer in sendInitialSync() when the peer has been deleted (#7315).
• Network map from the nmap data type (#6919).

Self-hosted / infrastructure

• Better domain, Docker Compose and license validation in the self-hosted scripts (#7339).
• The dashboard wasm client bump is triggered by release tags (#7277).
• Protobuf breaking-change checks in CI (#7305).
• Pinned the toolchain gomobile init needs for gobind (#7291).
• Removed the mobile build validation workflow (#7302).

Upgrade notes

• Remote debug bundles now require an explicit opt-in (#7153). Bundles requested by the management server no longer run on a peer unless remote jobs are enabled there, with --allow-remote-jobs on the client or the allowRemoteJobs managed setting. Deployments relying on management-triggered debug bundles must opt in before they work again. The upload destination can now be pinned by the operator, with MDM taking precedence over the management-supplied value (#7147).
• The embedded proxy now runs Rosenpass in permissive mode (#6763). Peers with Rosenpass enabled can now use the reverse proxy, which previously failed on a PSK mismatch; peers without Rosenpass keep connecting exactly as before. NB_PROXY_ROSENPASS=false disables it.
• Proxy peers now default to lazy connections (#6762).

Nothing else requires action.

Full Changelog: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/compare/v0.77.1...v0.78.0