Netmaker v1.4.0 Release Notes 🚀
🚀 What’s New
🌍 Posture Checks (beta)
- Security feature that validates device compliance against configured policies based on device attributes such as OS, OS version, kernel version, client version, geographic location, and auto-update status.
- Supports tag-based and user group-based assignment of posture checks to specific devices or users.
- Tracks violations with configurable severity levels and provides real-time evaluation of device compliance.
- Helps ensure only compliant devices can access network resources.
🔁 Network Traffic Logging (alpha)
- Comprehensive network flow logging system that captures and stores network traffic metadata.
- Tracks source and destination IPs, ports, protocols, bytes/packets sent/received, and connection timestamps.
- Provides API endpoints for querying flow data with filters by network, node, user, protocol, and time range.
- Enables network administrators to monitor, analyze, and audit network traffic patterns for security and troubleshooting purposes.
🌐 K8s Operator with Cluster Access, Egress and Ingress functionality (beta)
- Cluster Egress: Expose Netmaker network services to Kubernetes workloads using standard Service names.
- Cluster Ingress: Expose Kubernetes services to devices on your Netmaker network.
- API Proxy: Secure access to Kubernetes API servers through Netmaker tunnels with RBAC support.
🔄 Auto Removal of Offline Peers
- Automatically removes nodes that have been offline for a configurable threshold period.
- Configurable per network with customizable timeout thresholds (in minutes).
- Supports tag-based filtering to selectively apply auto-removal to specific device groups.
- Helps maintain clean network topology by removing stale or abandoned peer connections.
🧩 Onboarding Flow
- Streamlined user onboarding experience during signup for workspace setup.
🧰 Improvements & Fixes
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Azure IDP sync: Fixed User sync by group filters.
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User Migration: Optimised User migration logic to reduce server start up time.
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Config Files: Avoid Auto enabling of configs on user login.
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Egress Domain Updates: Fixed domain-related issues in egress configurations to ensure consistent routing behavior.
Known Issues 🐞
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netclients cannot auto-upgrade on ipv6-only machines.
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Need to optimize multi-network netclient join with enrollment key
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On systems using systemd-resolved in uplink mode, the first 3 entries in resolv.conf are used and rest are ignored. So it might cause DNS issues. Stub mode is preferred.