netbird

v0.72.0 Feature

This release adds 3 notable features for engineering teams evaluating rollout.

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wireguard-vpn wiretrustee zero-trust-network-access

Summary

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Updates Client Improvements, Management Improvements, and What's New across a mixed release.

Changes in this release

Type	Severity	Summary	CVE
Feature
Feature	Medium	Adds support to expose NetBird-only services over tunnel peers. Adds support to expose NetBird-only services over tunnel peers. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Adds private service expose support in the dashboard. Adds private service expose support in the dashboard. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Updates reverse proxy modals in the dashboard. Updates reverse proxy modals in the dashboard. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Improves Rosenpass support. Improves Rosenpass support. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Recognizes NetBird DNS forwarder port in capture text format. Recognizes NetBird DNS forwarder port in capture text format. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Captures injected ICMPv6 echo replies in debug capture. Captures injected ICMPv6 echo replies in debug capture. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Gates DNS forwarder on BlockInbound setting. Gates DNS forwarder on BlockInbound setting. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Feature	Medium	Persists sync response via pluggable store, adding disk support on iOS. Persists sync response via pluggable store, adding disk support on iOS. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Fixes possible deadlock in statemanager Stop. Fixes possible deadlock in statemanager Stop. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—
Bugfix	Medium	Applies netroute default‑gateway workaround on Android. Applies netroute default‑gateway workaround on Android. Source: llm_adapter@2026-06-05 Confidence: high	—

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Release Notes for v0.72.0

What's New

Private Service Expose & Reverse Proxy

Added support to expose NetBird-only services over tunnel peers across management, client, and proxy.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6226
Added follow-up fixes for private reverse-proxy services.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6268
Added private service expose support in the dashboard.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/646
Updated reverse proxy modals in the dashboard.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/661
Bound embed client WireGuard per-device memory across proxy and client.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/5962

Client Improvements

Filtered scoped/cloned default routes from BSD network monitor.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6208
Matched DNS wildcard handlers on label boundaries.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6255
Refactored Linux system info to use syscalls.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6230
Released WASM js.FuncOf callbacks in SSH and RDP paths.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/5982
Fixed possible deadlock in statemanager Stop.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6228
Improved Rosenpass support.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6136
Recognized NetBird DNS forwarder port in capture text format.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6177
Applied netroute default-gateway workaround on Android.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6192
Captured injected ICMPv6 echo replies in debug capture.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6321
Gated DNS forwarder on BlockInbound.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6257
Persisted sync response via pluggable store, including disk support on iOS.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6331
Allowed WireGuard port to be zero in UI and showed the port in status command.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6158
Prevented corruption from competing log rotation and improved debug bundle.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6214

Management Improvements

Fixed owner role update.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6264
Refactored management server bootstrap.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6256
Updated log levels.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6266
Extended nmap monitoring.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6271
Added SSO session extend flow.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6197
Extended combined server initialization.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6156
Enriched context in permissions manager.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6286
Exported ResolveDomain.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6334

Dashboard Improvements

Added simplified dashboard layout.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/649
Fixed broken SSH and RDP in the dashboard.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/650
Moved setup keys to Settings.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/653
Improved table filters layout.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/654
Grouped Networks and Routes under Network Routing.
https://github.com/netbirdio/dashboard/pull/660

Infrastructure & CI

Pinned GitHub Actions with SHA and improved workflows.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6249
Added Codecov integration and coverage reporting across workflows.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6333
Allowed Docker image overrides for getting started.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6335
Exposed VCS revision in dev build version output across client, management, and misc.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6263

New Contributors

@phillebaba made their first contribution in https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6230
@riccardomanfrin made their first contribution in https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6228
@theodorsm made their first contribution in https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/6249

Full Changelog: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/compare/v0.71.4...v0.72.0

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Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.