Netmaker v1.6.0 Release Notes 🚀

🚀 What’s New

🔁 Site-to-Site ACLs (Beta)

Define ACL policies that permit traffic between egress endpoints across networks.

• Build site-to-site rules between egress resources on different networks.
• Combine egress resources, nodes, and specific IPs in a single policy.
• Site-to-site rules are emitted alongside device-mesh rules without key collisions.

🛡️ Egress ACLs with IP Restriction

ACL policies can now target individual IPs inside an egress range using the ip ACL target type.

• Restrict access to specific hosts within a larger egress CIDR.
• Validate that selected IPs fall within the referenced egress range at policy create/update time.
• Mix egress resources, nodes, tags, and individual IPs in the same policy.

📦 Egress Preset Catalog (Pro)

A built-in catalog simplifies domain-based egress for common SaaS and cloud providers.

• Browse presets via GET /api/v1/egress/presets (AWS, Azure, Google, Salesforce, and more).
• Create egress resources from a preset_id; the server can resolve AWS IP ranges automatically.
• Support for multiple domains per egress resource.

⏱️ JIT Group Memberships

Just-In-Time (JIT) access can now be scoped to user groups per network.

• Enable JIT for all non-admin users, or limit it to selected user groups.
• Users request access; admins approve or deny with email notifications.
• Expired grants are cleaned up automatically and users are notified.

🔗 SIEM Integration

Forward Netmaker audit events to your security stack from Integrations.

• Supported providers: Splunk, Datadog, Elastic, and Microsoft Sentinel.
• Configure, test, and manage integrations via the REST API (/api/v1/integrations/siem/{provider}).
• Events are exported through the SIEM exporter service.

🔑 Default Enrollment Keys

Networks can designate a default enrollment key for simplified device onboarding.

• Fetch the default key per network via the API or CLI.
• Regenerate enrollment key tokens without recreating the key.

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🗄️ Database Schema Migration

This release introduces schema changes to the following core entities:

• Nodes
• Pending Users
• User Invites
• Posture Check Violations

Impact:

• The database structure will be updated automatically during the upgrade.
• Downgrades may not be supported after migration.

👉 Action Required:

• Ensure the application starts successfully and migrations are complete.
• Validate core functionality post-upgrade.

For detailed upgrade steps, refer to the official upgrade documentation:

Server Upgrades v1.5.1+

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🧰 Improvements & Fixes

• Netclient registration UX — Host registration over OAuth/basic auth now returns clear websocket close reasons on failure (auth errors, missing access, posture violations, and server errors).

• User group management — Streamlined user role permissions and group updates, role-downgrade handling.

• Orphan reference cleanup — Removes stale network references left behind after resource deletion.

• Scalability & reliability — Optimized node status calculation, offline-status hooks, zombie/orphan node cleanup, and ACL cache race fixes.

• API hardening — Auth rate limiting on REST endpoints and activity-log permission fixes.

• Egress improvements — CIDR validation for ACL egress IPs, multi-domain egress routing, and domain-answer handling for preset-based egress.

• Failover removed — Legacy per-node failover APIs and CLI commands have been removed in favor of gateway-based patterns.

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🐞 Known Issues

• IPv6-only machines
  Netclients cannot currently auto-upgrade on IPv6-only systems.

• Multi-network join performance
  Multi-network netclient joins using an enrollment key still require optimization.

• systemd-resolved DNS limitation
  On systems using systemd-resolved in uplink mode, only the first 3 entries in resolv.conf are honored; additional entries are ignored. This may cause DNS resolution issues. Stub mode is recommended.

• Windows Desktop App + mixed gateway modes
  When the Windows Desktop App is connected to both:

  • a Full Tunnel Gateway, and
  • a Split Tunnel Gateway

  the gateway monitoring component may disconnect from the Split Tunnel Gateway.