Hello NetBird Community!
We've kicked off 2025 with major platform improvements focused on performance, security, and flexibility.
Product Updates
Client and Management
Besides the many quality-of-life improvements, we’ve also added some exciting new features.
- Introduced QUIC protocol support in the client and relay server, bringing better connection reliability and performance for relayed connections.
- Added MySQL support to the management service - perfect for teams preferring MySQL as their database backend.
- Implemented Rootless Container support for clients running Netstack mode
Dashboard
The Dashboard got some love too this past month with several significant improvements.
- Improved masquerade states, resource searching, and improved network setup flow
- Improved confirmation dialogues, maintained sort order consistency, and fixed group badge display issues
- Resource counters for groups, installation options after setup key creation, and toggles for resources and routing peers
Our "Secure Access" webinar drew a great turnout of engineers exploring NetBird's architecture. Check out the recording here.
Featured Technical Guide
Chuck Boecking from the NetBird Community has published a comprehensive tutorial demonstrating how to:
- Set up NetBird with Incus (Linux container manager)
- Deploy on PhoenixNAP bare metal
- Configure secure container networking
- Implement practical zero-trust networking principles
Check out the full guide at chuck-stack.org
🚀 That's it for this month's newsletter! Thank you for being part of the NetBird community. Stay tuned for more updates!
– Team NetBird
