PeaNUT

⚠️ Breaking Changes

Authentication is now always on by default

In v5, authentication was opt-in — if WEB_USERNAME and WEB_PASSWORD were not set, the app was open to anyone. In v6, authentication is enabled by default.

• If you were running without those environment variables, you will be redirected to a setup page on first boot to create your account.
• If you prefer to run without authentication, set AUTH_DISABLED=true.

WEB_USERNAME / WEB_PASSWORD are now bootstrap-only

In v5, these environment variables were checked on every login and API request. In v6, they are only used to automatically create the initial user on first startup — after that, credentials are stored in config/auth.yaml as a bcrypt hash.

Important: Changing these environment variables after the first boot will have no effect on your credentials. To rotate your password, use the UI or edit config/auth.yaml directly.

Credentials are now persisted in config/auth.yaml

A new file, config/auth.yaml, stores your hashed credentials. Your /config volume must be mounted and writable (owner 1000:1000) — without it, the app will be unable to save your account and will redirect to setup on every restart.

If you were already mounting /config for settings persistence, no additional changes are needed.

What's Changed

• Bump actions/setup-node from 6.2.0 to 6.3.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/398
• Bump pnpm/action-setup from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/402
• Bump helm/kind-action from 1.13.0 to 1.14.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/396
• Bump next from 16.1.6 to 16.1.7 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/401
• Create user on setup by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/381
• Package updates by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/406
• Make config directory permission errors actionable by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/415
• Add TCP connection pooling for NUT server client by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/405
• Package updates by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/416
• Bump pnpm/action-setup from 5 to 6 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/410
• Bump actions/setup-node from 6.3.0 to 6.4.0 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/412
• Parallelize CI build workflow by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/417
• Bump azure/setup-helm from 4 to 5 by @dependabot[bot] in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/407
• Fix WS terminal auth behind SSL-terminating proxies by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/419
• Upgrade recharts to v3 by @Brandawg93 in https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/pull/420

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Brandawg93/PeaNUT/compare/v5.22.0...v6.0.0