Changelog

All Platforms

• New: tailscale switch command to switch between accounts using fast user switching
• New: tailscale login command to login with a specified account
• New: tailscale set command to modify configuration settings without needing to repeat the others
• New: Additional 4via6 DNS name format, Q-R-S-T-via-X (or Q-R-S-T-via-X.yak-bebop.ts.net), for systems that required dashes instead of dots
• Changed: Display decoded punycode hostnames in status list
• Changed: Warn in tailscale status health and tailscale up if there are nodes advertising routes but --accept-routes=false

Linux

• New: Add fast user switching using tailscale login and tailscale switch
• Changed: Warn in tailscale status health if something else overwrites /etc/resolv.conf

macOS

• New: Add fast user switching by selecting the desired tailnet from the Tailscale icon in the menubar, or via the tailscale login and tailscale switch commands

Windows

• New: Add fast user switching by selecting the desired tailnet from the Tailscale icon in the taskbar, or via the tailscale login and tailscale switch commands
• New: Use named pipes to communicate between UI and Service
• Changed: Move state storage responsibility from frontend to backend. The current state is migrated, this should not be a noticeable change.
• Changed: Switch to wingoes for OLE support, use multithreaded apartment

Android

• Fixed: Allow Sonos app to discover speakers on the local LAN

Synology

• Fixed: Better detect DSM version, locate local socket correctly

Containers

• Changed: Replace run.sh with cmd/containerboot

FreeBSD

• New: Support for Tailscale SSH (Thanks Pat Maddox!)

• New: Set contact preferences in the Contact Preferences page of the admin console for notifications about account changes, configuration issues, security issues, and billing
• New: Contact preference updates and verifications are included in configuration audit logs

• New: Create invitations for feature previews in the Feature Previews page of the admin console

• Changed: Tailscale unstable images on Docker Hub and in GitHub Packages now contain the prefix “unstable-”, for example “unstable-v1.33” instead of “v1.33”

All Platforms

• Fixed: Security vulnerability in the Windows client that allows a malicious website to reconfigure the Tailscale daemon tailscaled, which can then be used to remotely execute code (CVE-2022-41924, TS-2022-004)
• Fixed: Security vulnerability in the client that allows a malicious website to access the peer API, which can then be used to access Tailscale environment variables (CVE-2022-41925, TS-2022-005)

Windows

• Changed: Set Zone.Identifier alternate data stream for Taildrop files

macOS

• Changed: Set com.apple.quarantine flag for Taildrop files

• New: Tailscale Funnel to route traffic from the wider Internet to your Tailscale nodes (alpha)

• New: Use UI filters to easily filter devices in the Machines page of the admin console

• New: The actor is included in all webhook event payloads
• New: The key expiration time is included in payloads for expiration-related events
• Changed: Slack messages generated for webhook events now have timestamps formatted in the local timezone of the user viewing the message

• New: Set up billing in Azure with a Tailscale in Azure Marketplace subscription

• New: Create a browser-based SSH session from the admin console to a node on your tailnet (beta)

• Changed: MagicDNS (generally available)
  • Access devices using short hostnames, like my-server or dashboard

• Changed: Tailnets use .ts.net instead of .beta.tailscale.net for the tailnet name
  • To avoid publicizing your organization name, Tailscale provides you with a tailnet name, which is used by features like MagicDNS, HTTPS, and sharing. The tailnet name is visible in the DNS page of the admin console.
  • Previously, you might have used a name ending in .beta.tailscale.net. If so, migrate to the new tailnet name. The existing beta.tailscale.net name remains supported until at least November 1, 2023.
  • What we previously called the tailnet name is now called the organization name. The organization name is used by the Tailscale API, and is visible in the Settings page of the admin console.

• New: Use configuration audit logging to identify who did what, and when, in your tailnet (beta)

• New: Per-DERP-region DNS entries, such as derp1-all.tailscale.com, available for firewall allowlists or other compliance requirements

• Changed: Key type is embedded in new keys, for example, tskey-auth-012345abcdef instead of tskey-012345abcdef

• New: Honolulu added as a DERP region

• New: Dubai and Warsaw added as DERP regions

• New: Hong Kong, Madrid, and Toronto added as DERP regions

• New: Los Angeles and Paris added as DERP regions

• New: Johannesburg and Miami added as DERP regions

• New: Amsterdam and Denver added as DERP regions

All Platforms

• Fixed: Exit nodes in userspace-networking mode break Chrome v.104 or later IPv6 connectivity
• Fixed: SIGINT when running in a container without job control

• New: Sync Tailscale ACLs GitHub Action in GitHub Marketplace to keep your tailnet policy file in Git, and automatically run tests and push changes to Tailscale

• New: Recently expired and revoked auth keys and API keys are now shown on the Keys page of the admin console

All Platforms

• New: Use DNS-over-HTTPS for Mullvad DNS servers
• New: Report whether a subnet router is running in userspace-networking or kernel mode
• New: send Tailscale client version number in ACME requests (to Let’s Encrypt, for example)
• New: Report whether host kernel supports IPv6
• New: Add tailscale licenses with link to open source licenses
• Changed: Delete node immediately if tailscaled exists and was using mem: state storage
• Changed: tsnet ephemeral nodes will delete themselves on Close()
• Changed: Add a timeout when writing to BIRD socket
• Changed: Clients can use Noise with any HTTPS port with capver 39 (mainly for Headscale)
• Fixed: 100.100.100.100 will respond with SERVFAIL if there are no upstream resolvers

Linux

• Fixed: Gracefully handle restarts in resolved support

macOS

• Changed: Report variant (App Store, system extension) in the about box
• Fixed: Fix missing IP address display in the status menu

Windows

• New: Add native ARM build for backend Tailscale service (only in NSIS installer in this release)
• Changed: Update Proxy support
• Changed: Notice when group policy entries change and move our NRPT rules between the local and group policy subkeys as needed
• Fixed: Avoid 2.3 second DNS lookup delay when Smart Name Resolution is enabled by adding MagicDNS names to hosts file
• Fixed: Disable NetBIOS nameservice on Tailscale interfaces

iOS

• Fixed: Fix potential crash in notification handling
• Fixed: Fix dismissing of error indication if a bugreport fails

Android

• New: Allow coordination server URL to be set. Click the Authentication menu three times quickly to enable
• Fixed: Fix Google Stadia, Android Auto, GoPro, and Messages RCS with the VPN active

Synology

• Fixed: Fix /dev/net permissions in tailscale configure-host

OpenBSD

• New: Support functioning as a subnet router or exit node using hybrid netstack mode

Other

• Fixed: Accommodate shared nodes in nginx-auth
• Fixed: Fix race in derper (Custom DERP servers) with manual certificates

• New: Tailscale Terraform provider for managing your Tailscale resources, managed by Tailscale

• Changed: Invite links for sharing a device are automatically generated and copied, and no longer requires a label to be generated

• New: Run tailscale logout to remove an ephemeral node from your tailnet immediately

• New: TrueCharts has added community support for a TrueNAS SCALE app and Helm chart for Tailscale (Thanks!)

• New: On-demand access integration with ConductorOne, Indent, Opal, and Sym

• New: The network policy options section in ACLs now contains the OneCGNATRoute setting which controls the routes that Tailscale clients will generate
• Fixed: Bug that can cause slow connects and a crash in a custom DERP server in manual cert mode (not using Let’s Encrypt). We encourage you to upgrade your derper binary. If you use the default Let’s Encrypt mode, no action is required

• New: Connect with Tailscale SSH to tagged nodes that are shared with you

• New: View the status of Tailscale services at https://status.tailscale.com/

All Platforms

• Fixed: tailscaled being able to restart while mosh-server is running from an SSH session
• Fixed: Make tailscale up --operator="" clear a previously set operator

Linux

• Fixed: Tailscale SSH support with Arch Linux

macOS

• Changed: Limit SSH login to 16 groups

Windows

• Changed: Make SSH command prefer Windows ssh.exe over PATH

iOS

• Changed: Try harder to notify for SSH check mode

• New: Use Tailscale SSH to allow Tailscale to manage the authentication and authorization of SSH connections in your tailnet (beta)
• Changed: Default ACL now allows users to access their own devices using Tailscale SSH with check mode. This only affects tailnets with default ACLs, including new tailnets and tailnets which have never modified their ACLs

All Platforms

• Fixed: Various bugs

All Platforms

• New: Add --peerapi <peer> flag in tailscale ping to check connectivity to a peer using the PeerAPI
• New: Add --timeout <duration> flag in tailscale up to enforce a maximum amount of time to wait for the Tailscale service to initialize
• New: Allow LoginInteractive via LocalAPI
• New: MagicDNS supports DNS/TCP and handling IP fragmented UDP frames
• New: Add an overall 10 second timeout for recursive MagicDNS queries
• New: Add Wake-on-LAN function to PeerAPI. There is no UI for it currently.
• New: Provide /run.sh as an entrypoint for Docker container builds
• Fixed: Configured MTU is now consistent between a TUN device and a userspace device
• Changed: Refactor tailscale.com/client/tailscale package with LocalClient type
• Changed: Change MagicDNS “via route” DNS names from “via-SITEID.10.2.3.4” to “10.2.3.4.via-SITEID”. The old format will continue to work for the next one or two releases.
• Changed: Build with Go 1.18.3

macOS

• New: Tailscaled-on-macOS now supports MagicDNS, including Split DNS
• New: Initial release of a standalone macOS client, which is independent of the App Store, in the stable track

Windows

• New: Add TS_NOLAUNCH property to allow admins to deploy silent MSI installs without automatically starting the GUI
• Fixed: MagicDNS lookup of own hostname
• Fixed: Handle more than 50 Split DNS domains
• Fixed: Resolve one source of shutdown delay (there may still be more)

Synology

• New: Allow the NAS disks to hibernate by moving telemetry buffering to tmpfs
• Changed: Improve HTTP proxy handling

iOS

• New: Bug report menu option in the UI

• New: Search for users and filter based on user role in the Users page
• New: Pagination when user list is large in the Users page

macOS

• New: Initial release of a standalone macOS client, which is independent of the App Store, in the unstable track

• New: Update billing email address in the Billing page of the admin console

• Changed: The allowed expiration range for keys is 1 to 180 days, instead of 3 to 180 days

• New: Update invoice name and address in the Billing page of the admin console

• New: Use the Tailscale extension for Docker Desktop to securely connect to the resources you need for development (beta)

• Changed: When adding common global DNS nameservers, Tailscale will automatically include all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for that nameserver and treat them as one entity

• Changed: The tailnet ACL validate API call also allows verifying ACL format and running ACL tests, without posting a new ACL
• Changed: The tailnet key detail API call includes whether an auth key is pre-authorized

All Platforms

• Fixed: Handling of HTTP proxies in certain circumstances
• Fixed: An issue where the new control plane protocol could fail to make a connection to our servers (#4557)

Synology

• • Fixed: Additional fix in handling of HTTP proxies

All Platforms

• Fixed: Two issues where the new control plane protocol could fail to make a connection to our servers (#4544, #4538)
• Fixed: Set TCP keep-alives in userspace-networking subnet router to avoid connection leaks (#4522)
• Fixed: Avoid using the LTE radio after transition to Wi-Fi

Android

• New: Run Tailscale on Android TV

All Platforms

• New: Initial support for site-relative IPv4 addressing using IPv6
• New: First for-keepsies deployment of ts2021 protocol
• New: tsnet now supports providing a custom ipn.StateStore
• Fixed: Improve netstack performance via better GC tuning
• Fixed: MagicDNS: PTR records for TS service IPs
• Changed: Build with Go 1.18

Linux

• New: taildrop: add file get --loop
• New: taildrop: add file get --conflict=(skip|overwrite|rename)
• Changed: Default to userspace-networking mode on gokrazy
• Changed: Set tailscale0 link speed to UNKNOWN, not 1Gbps
• Changed: Attempt to load the xt_mark kernel module when it is not present

Windows

• Fixed: Improve HTTPS proxy handling

Synology

• Fixed: Improve HTTPS proxy handling

Android

• New: Android TV support
• Fixed: Fix and reintroduce Talkback support

FreeBSD

• Fixed: Portmapping support

• New: Add or modify your tax identification number in the Billing page of the admin console

• New: ACL tests now support group as an option for the src field, and as the host portion of the accept and deny fields.

• New: Policy syntax for ACL tests now supports accept/deny in addition to allow/deny when specifying destinations that the ACL rules should accept or deny.

Linux

• Fixed: Potential crash at startup when using BGP

Windows

• Fixed: MSI not restarting GUI after MSI-to-MSI upgrade

• New: Use Caddy to manage Tailscale HTTPS certificates

All Platforms

• Fixed: In userspace-networking mode, always close SOCKS proxied connections

Linux

• Fixed: Better operation with gokrazy

macOS

• Fixed: Fix macOS GUI “Must restart” dialog in some cases

Windows

• Fixed: Fix a Windows NSIS installer bug when upgrading

FreeBSD

• Fixed: Fix portmapping

• New: Share an exit node (beta)

• New: Policy syntax for ACL rules now supports src/dst in addition to users/ports when referring to sources and destinations

All Platforms

• Fixed: DNS lookups via an exit node in many cases

Linux

• Fixed: Better handling of extremely large /proc/net/route files for very large routers
• Fixed: BGP advertisement with subnet router failover

OpenBSD

• Fixed: openresolv /etc/resolv.conf handling

• New: Disable node key expiry via API
• Fixed: Preview rules in the admin console for tagged nodes

• Changed: ACL tags (generally available)
  • You can include tags as part of an authentication key, you can tag devices from the Machines page of the admin console, and tags can be owners of other tags. You must authenticate when re-tagging a device.
• Fixed: Preview rules in the admin console for a user without any nodes

• Changed: A device tagged with an ACL tag is associated with the tag applied to it, not with the user who authenticated the device
• Changed: Tagged devices are listed under “Tagged Devices” in the list of Network devices in Tailscale clients
• Changed: Users cannot use Taildrop to send files to and from nodes they have tagged
• Fixed: A user without any nodes can be specified as part of an ACL test

Synology

• Fixed: UI issues in Synology (Synology 1.20.2 doesn’t have working options page)

Only the Synology client released v1.20.3. All other platforms remain with v1.20.2.

• New: Delete your tailnet from the Settings page of admin console if it only has one user. Contact support for other requests

All Platforms

• Fixed: Deadlock in handling the DERP map

All Platforms

• New: When using an exit node, DNS queries will be forwarded to the exit node for resolution
• New: tailscaled now allows running the outgoing SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies on the same port.
• New: SOCKS5/HTTP proxies now allow connecting via subnet routers & exit nodes when run in userspace-networking mode
• New: More debug metrics available
• New: tailscale ip -1 flag
• New: CLI now lets you select exit node by name
• New: CLI now shows you which nodes are offering exit nodes
• New: CLI now refuses to let you pick an invalid exit node (when connected)
• New: Packet filter now supports matching any IP protocol number when enabled in ACLs (previously only TCP, UDP, ICMP and SCTP)
• New: Added Online boolean to tailscale status --json, made tailscale status show offline nodes
• New: Added tailscale up --json
• Fixed: MagicDNS now works over IPv6 when CGNAT IPv4 is disabled using disableIPv4: true in ACL
• Fixed: Choose a new DERP relay server if the current DERP is removed from the DERPmap
• Fixed: Bug fixes, cleanups, log spam reduction

Linux

• Changed: tailscale file cp sends via the local tailscaled now, so it now supports tailscaled running in tun-free, userspace-networking mode (such as on Synology DSM7 unless you enable TUN mode)

Windows

• New: GUI support for running an exit node

macOS

• New: GUI support for running an exit node

iOS

• Changed: Send heartbeats less often to conserve battery

Android

• New: Talkback support
• New: Menu selection to generate a bug report
• New: “Allow LAN Access” checkbox in Exit Node menu
• Changed: Send heartbeats less often to conserve battery
• Changed: Implement DNS config reporting
• Changed: No longer require fallback DNS to be configured in admin console
• Fixed: Report in the UI when connectivity is lost; this functionality was present but broken in prior releases

FreeBSD

• Fixed: Now supports running in a jail (if devd isn’t available, it falls back to network status polling mode)

• New: Auth keys can include an ACL tag binding, so that when a device is authenticated, the tags are applied
• New: ACL tags can be applied by an Owner, Admin, or Network Admin from the admin console
• New: A tag can be the owner of another tag
• New: Auth keys can be generated via API

All Platforms

• New: Permit protocols other than TCP, UDP, or SCTP if an ACL rule has a proto specified and allows * port range
• Fixed: Exit node selection takes effect (almost) immediately

Linux

• Fixed: In DNS DirectManager, allow comments at the end of a line
• Fixed: Don’t get stuck waiting for systemd-resolved to restart in one particular DNS configuration

Synology

• New: Receive Taildrop files

• New: ACLs can now use autogroup:self to write access rules to allow access to devices authenticated as the same user as the source IP address

Linux

• Fixed: Regressions on some kernel configs related to our direct use of netlink rather than using the ip command to program routes and policy routing

• New: User roles for Network Admin, IT Admin, and Auditor

• New: arm and arm64 container images on Docker Hub and in GitHub Packages

All Platforms

• New: tailscaled debug server now exports Prometheus metrics at /debug/metrics
• Fixed: Improved UPnP discovery so that eero devices now work, allowing a port to be opened for direct connections (also in 1.16.2)
• Fixed: State machine transition regarding expired key extension
• Changed: If unable to upload telemetry, limit amount buffered to 50MB
• Changed: Retry more transient DNS errors, instead of passing the failure back to the client

Linux

• New: Support storing Tailscale state using AWS SSM (e.g., tailscaled -state arn:aws:ssm:eu-west-1:123456789:parameter/foo) (thank you Maxime Visonneau)
• Fixed: If resolvconf wrote /etc/resolv.conf but pointed it to systemd-resolved, use systemd-resolved for DNS not resolvconf
• Fixed: If NetworkManager wrote /etc/resolv.conf but pointed it to systemd-resolved, use systemd-resolved for DNS not NetworkManager
• Fixed: Handle /etc/resolv.conf being a bind mount into a container, such that we cannot rename() it.
• Fixed: Work around Ubuntu 18.04 setLinkDomain length limit by omitting reverse lookup information
• Changed: Use AF_NETLINK messages to configure IP, not the ip command. Set TS_DEBUG_USE_IP_COMMAND environment variable to revert to use of /sbin/ip if this breaks your device

iOS

• Changed: On iOS 15+, where Network Extensions have more memory available, allow the same number of DNS-over-HTTPS requests in flight as other platforms

Synology

• Changed: Only use AmbientCaps on DSM7+

• New: Available as a formula in Homebrew (Thanks!)

• New: Available in the Okta Integration Network

• New: Users can be suspended and restored from the Users page of the admin console
• New: Users who are inactive are shown in Users page of the admin console

• Changed: Ephemeral nodes now have both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses

• New: Officially supported in the Synology package center

• New: Published Tailscale container image available on Docker Hub and in GitHub Packages

• New: Specify --qr as part of tailscale up to generate a QR code for the login URL

All Platforms

• Changed: Include Let’s Encrypt’s ISRG Root X1 root as an alternate to try if the platform roots fail
• Changed: If tailscale cert fails because it needs to be run as root, say so.
• Fixed: Avoid looping packets in tstun, believed to fix #1526
• Fixed: Allow SOCKS5 proxy for --tun=userspace-networking to dial the HTTPS domain name of the Tailnet
• Fixed: Ensure state directory is set to perm 0700.

iOS

• Changed: Ignore ipsec link monitor events for iOS to avoid waking the system

Windows

• Changed: Move state files from C:\Windows to C:\ProgramData, to better handle Windows

Synology

• Fixed: Fix segfaults shortly after starting, resolves #2733

• New: Provision TLS certificates for devices in your tailnet (beta)

• New: Free Community on GitHub pricing plan for GitHub organizations using Tailscale for open source projects, families, and friends

All Platforms

• Changed: tailscale up will wait for the socket to tailscaled to be created, not exit with an error. It should no longer be necessary to run it in a loop.
• Fixed: Crash in TCP forwarding with userspace-networking; resolves #2658

Windows

• Fixed: Default route lookup on Windows; resolves #2707

Note: v1.14.1 and v1.14.2 were never released.