passteque/gluetun v3.40.0

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Happy holidays release time 🎄 🎅 🎁

💁 If anything doesn't work compared to previous release, please create an issue and revert to using v3.39.1 😉

ℹ️ Life is pretty busy all around currently (moving soon, new job, ill parent) so I might be even slower than usual until summer 2025, I'll do my best!

Features

• VPN: run WaitForDNS before querying the public ip address (partly address #2325)
• DNS: replace unbound with qdm12/dns@v2.0.0-rc8 (#1742 & later commits)
  • Faster start up
  • Clearer error messages
  • Allow for more Gluetun-specific customization
• Port forwarding:
  • VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND option (#2399)
  • VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_DOWN_COMMAND option
• Config allow irrelevant server filters to be set (see #2337)
  • Disallow setting a server filter when there is no choice available
  • Allow setting an invalid server filter when there is at least one choice available
  • Log at warn level when an invalid server filter is set
• Firewall: support custom ICMP rules
• Healthcheck:
  • log out last error when auto healing VPN
  • run TLS handshake after TCP dial if address has 443 port
• Public IP:
  • retry fetching information when connection refused error is encountered (partly address #2325)
  • support custom API url echoip#https://... (#2529)
  • resilient public ip fetcher with backup sources (#2518)
  • add ifconfigco option and cloudflare option (#2502)
  • PUBLICIP_ENABLED replaces PUBLICIP_PERIOD
    • PUBLICIP_ENABLED (on, off) can be set to enable or not public ip data fetching on VPN connection
    • PUBLICIP_PERIOD=0 still works to indicate to disable public ip fetching
    • PUBLICIP_PERIOD != 0 means to enable public ip fetching
    • Warnings logged when using PUBLICIP_PERIOD
• STORAGE_FILEPATH option (#2416)
  • STORAGE_FILEPATH= disables storing to and reading from a local servers.json file
  • STORAGE_FILEPATH defaults to /gluetun/servers.json
• Netlink: debug rule logs contain the ip family
• internal/tun: mention in 'operation not permitted' error the user should specify --device /dev/net/tun (resolves #2606)
• Control server role based authentication system (#2434) (part of v3.39.1 as a bugfix)
  • Parse toml configuration file, see https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/advanced/control-server.md#authentication
  • Retro-compatible with existing AND documented routes, until after this release
  • Log a warning if an unprotected-by-default route is accessed unprotected
  • Authentication methods: none, apikey, basic
  • genkey command to generate API keys
• FastestVPN: add aes-256-gcm to OpenVPN ciphers list
• Private Internet Access updater: use v6 API to get servers data
• IPVanish: update servers data
• PrivateVPN: native port forwarding support (#2285)
• Privado: update servers data
• format-servers command supports the json format option

Fixes

• Wireguard: change default WIREGUARD_MTU from 1400 to 1320 (partially address #2533)
• OpenVPN: set default mssfix to 1320 for all providers with no default already set (partially address #2533)
• Control server: fix logged wiki authentication section link
• Firewall:
  • iptables list uses -n flag for testing iptables path (#2574)
  • deduplicate VPN address accept rule for multiple default routes with the same network interface
  • deduplicate ipv6 multicast output accept rules
  • ipv6 multicast output address value fixed
  • log warning if ipv6 nat filter is not supported instead of returning an error (allow to port forward redirect for IPv4 and not IPv6 if IPv6 NAT is not supported and fixed #2503)
• Wireguard:
  • Point to Kubernetes wiki page when encountering IP rule add file exists error (#2526)
• IPVanish:
  • fix openvpn configuration by updating CA value and add comp-lzo option
  • update openvpn zip file url for updater
• Perfect Privacy: update openvpn expired certificates (#2542)
• Public IP: lock settings during entire update to prevent race conditions

Documentation

• Dockerfile
  • add missing OPENVPN_MSSFIX environment variable
  • add missing option definitions
    • STREAM_ONLY
    • FREE_ONLY
  • Document PORT_FORWARD_ONLY is for both PIA and ProtonVPN

Maintenance

Code quality

• Remove github.com/qdm12/golibs dependency
  • Implement friendly duration formatting locally
  • implement github.com/qdm12/golibs/command locally (#2418)
• internal/natpmp: fix determinism for test Test_Client_ExternalAddress
• let system handle OS signals after first one to request a program stop
• internal/routing: remove redundant rule ip rule in error messages
• internal/netlink debug log ip rule commands in netlink instead of routing package
• internal/server: move log middleware to internal/server/middlewares/log
• use gofumpt for code formatting
• Fix gopls govet errors
• Upgrade linter from v1.56.2 to v1.61.0
  • Remove no longer needed exclude rules
  • Add new exclude rules for printf govet errors
  • Remove deprecated linters execinquery and exportloopref
  • Rename linter goerr113 to err113 and gomnd to mnd
  • Add new linters and update codebase: canonicalheader, copyloopvar, fatcontext, intrange

Dependencies

• Upgrade Go from 1.22 to 1.23
• Bump vishvananda/netlink from v1.2.1-beta.2 to v1.2.1
• Bump github.com/qdm12/gosettings from v0.4.3 to v0.4.4
  • Better support for quote expressions especially for commands such as VPN_PORT_FORWARDING_UP_COMMAND
• Bump github.com/breml/rootcerts from 0.2.18 to 0.2.19 (#2601)
• Bump golang.org/x/net from 0.25.0 to 0.31.0 (#2401, #2578)
• Bump golang.org/x/sys from 0.260.0 to 0.27.0 (#2404, #2573)
• Bump golang.org/x/text from 0.15.0 to 0.17.0 (#2400)
• Bump github.com/klauspost/compress from 1.17.8 to 1.17.11 (#2319, #2550)
• Bump github.com/pelletier/go-toml/v2 from 2.2.2 to 2.2.3 (#2549)
• Bump google.golang.org/protobuf from 1.30.0 to 1.33.0 (#2428)
• Bump github.com/stretchr/testify from 1.9.0 to 1.10.0 (#2600)

CI

• Linting: remove canonicalheader since it's not reliable
• Use --device /dev/net/tun for test container
• Bump DavidAnson/markdownlint-cli2-action from 16 to 18 (#2588)
• Bump docker/build-push-action from 5 to 6 (#2324)

Development setup

• dev container
  • pin godevcontainer image to tag :v0.20-alpine
  • drop requirement for docker-compose and use devcontainer.json settings directly
  • readme update
    • remove Windows without WSL step
    • update 'remote containers extension' to 'dev containers extension'
    • remove invalid warning on directories creation
    • simplify customizations section
      • remove "publish a port" since it can be done at runtime now
      • remove "run other services" since it's rather unneeded in this case
      • expand documentation on custom welcome script and where to specify the bind mount
        • use bullet points instead of subsections headings
• Github labels
  • change "config problem" to "user error"
  • add "performance", "investigation", "servers storage" and "nearly resolved" categories