Dear NetBird Community,

We're proud of what we've accomplished in 2025, glad to have a growing active community and thankful for all the positive (and at times critical) feedback we've received. In 2026, we'll continue to develop NetBird into an even more stellar product. With additional resources being added, we're excited for what's in store this year. Thank you for being part of the journey.

NetBird v0.61.0 - Granular SSH Access Control and Automatic Updates

Granular, identity-aware SSH access and automatic client updates. You can now map IdP users and groups to specific local OS accounts for SSH, enforcing least-privilege access instead of broad network permissions. Automatic updates (Windows and macOS) keep peers securely up to date with minimal operational overhead.

New: QuickStart self hosted IdP

This new doc explains how authentication works in self-hosted NetBird, covering both local user management and OIDC-based identity provider integration, including how users authenticate, how tokens are validated, and how multiple IdPs can be configured in a single deployment.

Visualize Remote Access with Control Center - User View

Control Center is a topological view in the NetBird dashboard that visualizes who can access what across your environment. It maps Peers, Groups, and Networks to the resources they can reach and shows the access control policies that permit those connections.

Finally, a Backup Solution That Doesn't Suck - ZeroByte

That's it for this month.

– Team NetBird

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