Hello NetBird Community!
We packed a lot into the last month. We introduced NetBird Agent Network, a brand-new access layer for AI, shipped the fully rebuilt desktop app as a release candidate, put out our biggest iOS release yet, and rolled out a cleaner, reorganized dashboard. Let's get into it.
Introducing NetBird Agent Network: Keyless AI Access for People and Agents
If you've ever handed a single OpenAI or Anthropic API key to your whole team, you know the mess: that key gets copied into a dozen agents, scripts, and files, nobody's sure who's spending what, and it never gets revoked when someone leaves. It's the same story we lived through with SSH keys for years.
NetBird Agent Network is our new access control layer for AI. Every person and agent gets keyless, identity-based access to LLM APIs and internal resources over the tunnel, with token and budget limits, model guardrails, and full audit logs. The connecting identity is the credential, so there are no shared keys to leak or track down. It's open source and available now, self-hosted for the moment (it hasn't landed in NetBird Cloud yet).
Learn more: Knowledge Hub article
The New NetBird Desktop App is Here (v0.75 Release Candidate)
We rebuilt the NetBird desktop app from the ground up, and it's ready for you to try. The new version runs on Wails3 with a React + Vite + Tailwind frontend, the same proven NetBird core underneath and brand-new everything you see and click. It brings a redesigned main window with Default and Advanced views, first-class profiles you can rename with real human-readable names, a peer details panel with status and connection metadata, an overhauled Settings page, translations, MDM-driven UI, and a non-disruptive session renewal flow.
It's out now as a release candidate and we'd love your eyes on it before we cut a stable build. Grab it from GitHub releases and let us know what you think.
Learn more: Knowledge Hub article
NetBird iOS v0.3.1 - Control Center Toggle, IPv6, and Smarter Exit Nodes
One of our biggest mobile releases yet. iOS v0.3.1 brings the app in line with the rest of your NetBird clients: an iOS 18 Control Center toggle for one-tap access, full IPv6 dual-stack support, cleaner single exit node selection, and a redesigned connection screen with a simple toggle switch that makes the state of your tunnel unmistakable at a glance. Under the hood, the client now runs on netbird-core v0.74.2 and picks up a long list of stability fixes for flaky networks and expiring sessions, plus a debug bundle uploader to make support easier.
Learn more: Knowledge Hub article
Dashboard v2.39.0 - A Simpler, Cleaner NetBird Dashboard
Nothing about how NetBird works changed, but a lot about how you find things did. Peers stay together on a single page, and rather than splitting User Devices and Servers into separate pages, we kept them combined and added better filtering, including User Devices and Servers quick-filter buttons to narrow the list in one click. Setup keys moved into Settings, Networks and Routes got grouped together, and every table picked up a cleaner chip-based filter layout. It's live on both self-hosted and NetBird Cloud now.
Learn more: Knowledge Hub article
The Self-Hosted Apps I Was Sleeping On (Until Now)
After sharing our own list of self-hosted favorites, we asked Reddit and YouTube what we'd missed. The community came back with Paperless-ngx, SearXNG, Audiobookshelf, Dawarich, copyparty, Gotify, Gatus, Forgejo, Technitium DNS Server, and even self-hosted email with Mailcow and Stalwart. If you're looking for the next thing to add to your homelab, this is a good place to start.
See the full list: Knowledge Hub article
Announcing Awesome NetBird
We put together awesome-netbird , a repo highlighting the awesome projects and content built by the team and the community. This is our official listing for third-party tools, integrations, and write-ups.
It's set up so anyone can open a PR to get their project or content listed. A page that pulls everything in from the repo is coming to the site soon. One thing worth knowing: anyone can submit a project, and a project being added doesn't mean the NetBird team tested or validated it, only entries marked Official or Endorsed have actually been tested and validated by us.
If you've built a tool or integration, or made a video, article, or write-up about NetBird, this is the place to get it seen. Give it a star and open a PR.
Contribute: awesome-netbird on GitHub
Community Highlights
We love seeing what the community builds and writes about NetBird. This month, DevOps Toolbox put together This Underrated Tool Replaced 3 Homelab Services (and it's open source!), a great walkthrough of consolidating a homelab down to NetBird and why a single open-source overlay can stand in for a stack of separate services. If you've been meaning to simplify your own setup, it's well worth a watch.
Watch it: This Underrated Tool Replaced 3 Homelab Services on DevOps Toolbox
Over on the German side, Daniel Klozbücher (IT-ION GmbH) published Schluss mit Port-Forwarding! NetBird macht Selfhosting sicherer ("No more port forwarding! NetBird makes self-hosting more secure"), a practical look at ditching port forwarding and reaching your self-hosted services securely over NetBird instead. A great watch if German is your language, and it translates well otherwise.
Watch it: Schluss mit Port-Forwarding! NetBird macht Selfhosting sicherer on IT-ION
Thank You!
Thank you for being part of the NetBird community. Your feedback, GitHub issues, and ideas continue to shape what we build. If you haven't already, come hang out with us on Slack or star us on GitHub .
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