v5.7.0

What's Changed

Beta release NoPorts Policy service

• A simple NoPorts policy service npp_atserver
• An API to manage NoPorts policy rules npp_admin
• A web UI which uses the API (bundled with npp_admin)
• Full documentation is being created here

Bug fixes and enhancements

• fix: fix issues which would occur when a large number of sockets are created concurrently in #1509
  • This change greatly improves the stability of http/https pages which load a large number of assets very quickly.
  • With this change, using web applications over a bare noports tunnel should be suitable for nearly all use-cases.
• fix: Use restart (rather than start) for systemd service in #1409
• feat: Better defaults for sshnpd's --permit-open in #1353

  IF a --permit-open is not specified by the user
  AND a policy atSign IS specified
  THEN default permitOpen to *:* rather than localhost:22,localhost:3389
  Since the daemon will make its policy decision based on info it receives from the policy service

• fix: Ensure npt rejects malformed atSign args in #1332
• feat: use SshnpRequest class and validate against permissions in #1381
• fix: Add no-encrypt-traffic option to npt in #1401
  • Can be useful for test rigs. Should not be used for production.
• fix: allow leading underscore in device name in #1427
• fix: Fix the regular expression for the daemon's notification subscription in #1557

CI

• ci: Replace Syft with sbomify in #1536
• ci: Refactor web admin to separate noarch job in #1553

Note:

• The release notes above summarize the changes for the scripts / binaries / etc available via this releases' assets.
• In the full change log below, there are many other changes
  • Changes to the C implementation will be included once the C daemon is GA
  • Changes to the NoPorts Desktop app will be covered in the NoPorts Desktop's release notes.

Full Changelog: v5.6.1...v5.7.0