headscale/CHANGELOG.md

CHANGELOG

0.20.0 (2023-x-x)

Changes

• Fix wrong behaviour in exit nodes #1159
• Align behaviour of dns_config.restricted_nameservers to tailscale #1162
• Make OpenID Connect authenticated client expiry time configurable #1191
  • defaults to 180 days like Tailscale SaaS
  • adds option to use the expiry time from the OpenID token for the node (see config-example.yaml)
• Set ControlTime in Map info sent to nodes #1195
• Populate Tags field on Node updates sent #1195

0.19.0 (2023-01-29)

BREAKING

• Rename Namespace to User #1144
  • BACKUP your database before upgrading
• Command line flags previously taking --namespace or -n will now require --user or -u

0.18.0 (2023-01-14)

Changes

• Reworked routing and added support for subnet router failover #1024
• Added an OIDC AllowGroups Configuration options and authorization check #1041
• Set db_ssl to false by default #1052
• Fix duplicate nodes due to incorrect implementation of the protocol #1058
• Report if a machine is online in CLI more accurately #1062
• Added config option for custom DNS records #1035
• Expire nodes based on OIDC token expiry #1067
• Remove ephemeral nodes on logout #1098
• Performance improvements in ACLs #1129
• OIDC client secret can be passed via a file #1127

0.17.1 (2022-12-05)

Changes

• Correct typo on macOS standalone profile link #1028
• Update platform docs with Fast User Switching #1016

0.17.0 (2022-11-26)

BREAKING

• noise.private_key_path has been added and is required for the new noise protocol.
• Log level option log_level was moved to a distinct log config section and renamed to level #768
• Removed Alpine Linux container image #962

Important Changes

• Added support for Tailscale TS2021 protocol #738
• Add experimental support for SSH ACL (see docs for limitations) #847
  • Please note that this support should be considered partially implemented
  • SSH ACLs status:
    • Support accept and check (SSH can be enabled and used for connecting and authentication)
    • Rejecting connections are not supported, meaning that if you enable SSH, then assume that all ssh connections will be allowed.
    • If you decied to try this feature, please carefully managed permissions by blocking port 22 with regular ACLs or do not set --ssh on your clients.
    • We are currently improving our testing of the SSH ACLs, help us get an overview by testing and giving feedback.
  • This feature should be considered dangerous and it is disabled by default. Enable by setting HEADSCALE_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURE_SSH=1.

Changes

• Add ability to specify config location via env var HEADSCALE_CONFIG #674
• Target Go 1.19 for Headscale #778
• Target Tailscale v1.30.0 to build Headscale #780
• Give a warning when running Headscale with reverse proxy improperly configured for WebSockets #788
• Fix subnet routers with Primary Routes #811
• Added support for JSON logs #653
• Sanitise the node key passed to registration url #823
• Add support for generating pre-auth keys with tags #767
• Add support for evaluating autoApprovers ACL entries when a machine is registered #763
• Add config flag to allow Headscale to start if OIDC provider is down #829
• Fix prefix length comparison bug in AutoApprovers route evaluation #862
• Random node DNS suffix only applied if names collide in namespace. #766
• Remove ip_prefix configuration option and warning #899
• Add dns_config.override_local_dns option #905
• Fix some DNS config issues #660
• Make it possible to disable TS2019 with build flag #928
• Fix OIDC registration issues #960 and #971
• Add support for specifying NextDNS DNS-over-HTTPS resolver #940
• Make more sslmode available for postgresql connection #927

0.16.4 (2022-08-21)

Changes

• Add ability to connect to PostgreSQL over TLS/SSL #745
• Fix CLI registration of expired machines #754

0.16.3 (2022-08-17)

Changes

• Fix issue with OIDC authentication #747

0.16.2 (2022-08-14)

Changes

• Fixed bugs in the client registration process after migration to NodeKey #735

0.16.1 (2022-08-12)

Changes

• Updated dependencies (including the library that lacked armhf support) #722
• Fix missing group expansion in function excludeCorretlyTaggedNodes #563
• Improve registration protocol implementation and switch to NodeKey as main identifier #725
• Add ability to connect to PostgreSQL via unix socket #734

0.16.0 (2022-07-25)

Note: Take a backup of your database before upgrading.

BREAKING

• Old ACL syntax is no longer supported ("users" & "ports" -> "src" & "dst"). Please check the new syntax.

Changes

• Drop armhf (32-bit ARM) support. #609
• Headscale fails to serve if the ACL policy file cannot be parsed #537
• Fix labels cardinality error when registering unknown pre-auth key #519
• Fix send on closed channel crash in polling #542
• Fixed spurious calls to setLastStateChangeToNow from ephemeral nodes #566
• Add command for moving nodes between namespaces #362
• Added more configuration parameters for OpenID Connect (scopes, free-form paramters, domain and user allowlist)
• Add command to set tags on a node #525
• Add command to view tags of nodes #356
• Add --all (-a) flag to enable routes command #360
• Fix issue where nodes was not updated across namespaces #560
• Add the ability to rename a nodes name #560
  • Node DNS names are now unique, a random suffix will be added when a node joins
  • This change contains database changes, remember to backup your database before upgrading
• Add option to enable/disable logtail (Tailscale's logging infrastructure) #596
  • This change disables the logs by default
• Use [Prometheus]'s duration parser, supporting days (d), weeks (w) and years (y) #598
• Add support for reloading ACLs with SIGHUP #601
• Use new ACL syntax #618
• Add -c option to specify config file from command line #285 #612
• Add configuration option to allow Tailscale clients to use a random WireGuard port. kb/1181/firewalls #624
• Improve obtuse UX regarding missing configuration (ephemeral_node_inactivity_timeout not set) #639
• Fix nodes being shown as 'offline' in tailscale status #648
• Improve shutdown behaviour #651
• Drop Gin as web framework in Headscale 648 677
• Make tailnet node updates check interval configurable #675
• Fix regression with HTTP API #684
• nodes ls now print both Hostname and Name(Issue #647 PR #687)

0.15.0 (2022-03-20)

Note: Take a backup of your database before upgrading.

BREAKING

• Boundaries between Namespaces has been removed and all nodes can communicate by default #357
  • To limit access between nodes, use ACLs.
• /metrics is now a configurable host:port endpoint: #344. You must update your config.yaml file to include:

  metrics_listen_addr: 127.0.0.1:9090
  

Features

• Add support for writing ACL files with YAML #359
• Users can now use emails in ACL's groups #372
• Add shorthand aliases for commands and subcommands #376
• Add /windows endpoint for Windows configuration instructions + registry file download #392
• Added embedded DERP (and STUN) server into Headscale #388

Changes

• Fix a bug were the same IP could be assigned to multiple hosts if joined in quick succession #346
• Simplify the code behind registration of machines #366
  • Nodes are now only written to database if they are registrated successfully
• Fix a limitation in the ACLs that prevented users to write rules with * as source #374
• Reduce the overhead of marshal/unmarshal for Hostinfo, routes and endpoints by using specific types in Machine #371
• Apply normalization function to FQDN on hostnames when hosts registers and retrieve informations #363
• Fix a bug that prevented the use of tailscale logout with OIDC #508
• Added Tailscale repo HEAD and unstable releases channel to the integration tests targets #513

0.14.0 (2022-02-24)

**UPCOMING ### BREAKING From the **next** version (0.15.0), all machines will be able to communicate regardless of if they are in the same namespace. This means that the behaviour currently limited to ACLs will become default. From version 0.15.0, all limitation of communications must be done with ACLs.

This is a part of aligning headscale's behaviour with Tailscale's upstream behaviour.

BREAKING

• ACLs have been rewritten to align with the bevaviour Tailscale Control Panel provides. NOTE: This is only active if you use ACLs
  • Namespaces are now treated as Users
  • All machines can communicate with all machines by default
  • Tags should now work correctly and adding a host to Headscale should now reload the rules.
  • The documentation have a fictional example that should cover some use cases of the ACLs features

Features

• Add support for configurable mTLS docs #297

Changes

• Remove dependency on CGO (switch from CGO SQLite to pure Go) #346

0.13.0 (2022-02-18):

Features

• Add IPv6 support to the prefix assigned to namespaces
• Add API Key support
  • Enable remote control of headscale via CLI docs
  • Enable HTTP API (beta, subject to change)
• OpenID Connect users will be mapped per namespaces
  • Each user will get its own namespace, created if it does not exist
  • oidc.domain_map option has been removed
  • strip_email_domain option has been added (see config-example.yaml)

Changes

• ip_prefix is now superseded by ip_prefixes in the configuration #208
• Upgrade tailscale (1.20.4) and other dependencies to latest #314
• fix swapped machine<->namespace labels in /metrics #312
• remove key-value based update mechanism for namespace changes #316

0.12.4 (2022-01-29):

Changes

• Make gRPC Unix Socket permissions configurable #292
• Trim whitespace before reading Private Key from file #289
• Add new command to generate a private key for headscale #290
• Fixed issue where hosts deleted from control server may be written back to the database, as long as they are connected to the control server #278

0.12.3 (2022-01-13)

Changes

• Added Alpine container #270
• Minor updates in dependencies #271

0.12.2 (2022-01-11)

Happy New Year!

Changes

• Fix Docker release #258
• Rewrite main docs #262
• Improve Docker docs #263

0.12.1 (2021-12-24)

(We are skipping 0.12.0 to correct a mishap done weeks ago with the version tagging)

BREAKING

• Upgrade to Tailscale 1.18 #229
  • This change requires a new format for private key, private keys are now generated automatically:
    1. Delete your current key
    2. Restart headscale, a new key will be generated.
    3. Restart all Tailscale clients to fetch the new key

Changes

• Unify configuration example #197
• Add stricter linting and formatting #223

Features

• Add gRPC and HTTP API (HTTP API is currently disabled) #204
• Use gRPC between the CLI and the server #206, #212
• Beta OpenID Connect support #126, #227

0.11.0 (2021-10-25)

BREAKING

• Make headscale fetch DERP map from URL and file #196