go generate ./hscontrol/capver/...
Adds v1.96 (capVer 133) to tailscaleToCapVer and capVerToTailscaleVer,
rolls the 10-version support window forward so MinSupportedCapabilityVersion
is now 109 (v1.78), and refreshes the test fixture accordingly.
Connect and Disconnect previously only appended a PolicyChange when
the affected node was a subnet router (routeChange) or the database
persist returned a full change. For every other node the peers just
received a small PeerChangedPatch{Online: ...} and no filter rules
were recomputed. That was too narrow: a node going offline or coming
online can affect policy compilation in ways beyond subnet routes.
TestGrantCapRelay Phase 4 exposed this. When the cap/relay target node
went down with `tailscale down`, headscale only sent an Online=false
patch, peers never got a recomputed netmap, and their cached
PeerRelay allocation stayed populated until the 120s assertion
timeout. With a PolicyChange queued on Disconnect, peers immediately
receive a full netmap on relay loss and clear PeerRelay as expected;
the symmetric change on Connect lets Phase 5 re-publish the policy
when the relay comes back.
Drop the now-unused routeChange return from the Disconnect gate.
Updates #2180
Address-based aliases (Prefix, Host) now resolve to exactly the literal
prefix and do not expand to include the matching node's other IP
addresses. This means an IPv4-only host definition only produces IPv4
filter rules, and an IPv6-only definition only produces IPv6 rules.
Update TestACLDevice1CanAccessDevice2 and TestACLNamedHostsCanReach to
track which addresses each test case covers via test1Addr/test2Addr/
test3Addr fields and only assert connectivity for that family.
Previously the tests assumed all address families would work regardless
of how the policy aliases were defined, which was true only when
address-based aliases auto-expanded to include all of a node's IPs.
The group test case (identity-based) keeps using IPv4 since tags, users,
groups, autogroups and the wildcard still resolve to both IPv4 and IPv6.
Updates #2180
When WithPingUntilDirect(false) is set, the Ping helper should accept
any indirect path, but the substring check only matched "via DERP" and
"via relay". Tailscale peer relay pings output
pong from ... via peer-relay(ip:port:vni:N) in Nms
which does not contain the "via relay" substring and was therefore
rejected as errTailscalePingNotDERP. TestGrantCapRelay Phase 4 never
passed because of this: even when the data plane was healthy the
helper returned an error.
Commit abe1a3e7 attempted to fix this by adding "via relay" alongside
"via DERP" but missed the "peer-" prefix used by peer relay output.
Add an explicit "via peer-relay" substring check so peer relay pongs
are accepted alongside DERP and plain relay pongs.
Updates #2180
Tailscale main now requires go >= 1.26.2, so building the HEAD image
against golang:1.26.1-alpine fails with:
go: go.mod requires go >= 1.26.2 (running go 1.26.1; GOTOOLCHAIN=local)
Bump the base image to golang:1.26.2-alpine so `go run ./cmd/hi run`
can build the HEAD container locally again.
Replace httptest (real TCP sockets) with tailscale.com/net/memnet
so all connections stay in-process. Wire the client's tsdial.Dialer
to the server's memnet.Network via SetSystemDialerForTest,
preserving the full Noise protocol path.
Also update servertest to use the new Node.Ephemeral.InactivityTimeout
config path introduced in the types refactor, and add WithNodeExpiry
server option for testing default node key expiry behaviour.
Updates #1711
Use the node.expiry config to apply a default expiry to non-tagged
nodes when the client does not request a specific expiry. This covers
all registration paths: new node creation, re-authentication, and
pre-auth key re-registration.
Tagged nodes remain exempt and never expire.
Fixes#1711
Introduce a structured NodeConfig that replaces the flat
EphemeralNodeInactivityTimeout field with a nested Node section.
Add node.expiry config (default: no expiry) as the unified default key
expiry for all non-tagged nodes regardless of registration method.
Remove oidc.expiry entirely — node.expiry now applies to OIDC nodes
the same as all other registration methods. Using oidc.expiry in the
config is a hard error. determineNodeExpiry() returns nil (no expiry)
unless use_expiry_from_token is enabled, letting state.go apply the
node.expiry default uniformly.
The old ephemeral_node_inactivity_timeout key is preserved for
backwards compatibility.
Updates #1711
Rename all 594 test data files from .json to .hujson and add
descriptive header comments to each file documenting what policy
rules are under test and what outcome is expected.
Update test loaders in all 5 _test.go files to parse HuJSON via
hujson.Parse/Standardize/Pack before json.Unmarshal.
Add cross-dependency warning to via_compat_test.go documenting
that GRANT-V29/V30/V31/V36 are shared with TestGrantsCompat.
Add .gitignore exemption for testdata HuJSON files.
Remove unused error variables (ErrGrantViaNotSupported, ErrGrantEmptySources, ErrGrantEmptyDestinations, ErrGrantViaOnlyTag) and the stale TODO for via implementation. Update compat test skip reasons to reflect that user:*@passkey wildcard is a known unsupported feature, not a pending implementation.
Updates #2180
Remove TestGrantViaExitNodeSteering and TestGrantViaMixedSteering.
Exit node traffic forwarding through via grants cannot be validated
with curl/traceroute in Docker containers because Tailscale exit nodes
strip locally-connected subnets from their forwarding filter.
The correctness of via exit steering is validated by:
- Golden MapResponse comparison (TestViaGrantMapCompat with GRANT-V31
and GRANT-V36) comparing full netmap output against Tailscale SaaS
- Filter rule compatibility (TestGrantsCompat with GRANT-V14 through
GRANT-V36) comparing per-node PacketFilter rules against Tailscale SaaS
- TestGrantViaSubnetSteering (kept) validates via subnet steering with
actual curl/traceroute through Docker, which works for subnet routes
Updates #2180
Use per-node compilation path for via grants in BuildPeerMap and MatchersForNode to ensure via-granted nodes appear in peer maps. Fix ViaRoutesForPeer golden test route inference to correctly resolve via grant effects.
Updates #2180
Add golden test data for via exit route steering and fix via exit grant compilation to match Tailscale SaaS behavior. Includes MapResponse golden tests for via grant route steering verification.
Updates #2180
Add NetworkSpec struct with optional Subnet field to ScenarioSpec.Networks.
When Subnet is set, the Docker network is created with that specific CIDR
instead of Docker's auto-assigned RFC1918 range.
Fix all exit node integration tests to use curl + traceroute. Tailscale
exit nodes strip locally-connected subnets from their forwarding filter
(shrinkDefaultRoute + localInterfaceRoutes), so exit nodes cannot
forward to IPs on their Docker network via the default route alone.
This is by design: exit nodes provide internet access, not LAN access.
To also get LAN access, the subnet must be explicitly advertised as a
route — matching real-world Tailscale deployment requirements.
- TestSubnetRouterMultiNetworkExitNode: advertise usernet1 subnet
alongside exit route, upgraded from ping to curl + traceroute
- TestGrantViaExitNodeSteering: usernet1 subnet in via grants and
auto-approvers alongside autogroup:internet
- TestGrantViaMixedSteering: externet subnet in auto-approvers and
route advertisement for exit traffic
Updates #2180
Add three tests that verify control plane behavior for grant policies:
- TestGrantViaSubnetFilterRules: verifies the router's PacketFilter
contains destination rules for via-steered subnets. Without per-node
filter compilation for via grants, these rules were missing and the
router would drop forwarded traffic.
- TestGrantViaExitNodeFilterRules: same verification for exit nodes
with via grants steering autogroup:internet traffic.
- TestGrantIPv6OnlyPrefixACL: verifies that address-based aliases
(Prefix, Host) resolve to exactly the literal prefix and do not
expand to include the matching node's other IP addresses. An
IPv6-only host definition produces only IPv6 filter rules.
Updates #2180
Via grants compile filter rules that depend on the node's route state
(SubnetRoutes, ExitRoutes). Without per-node compilation, these rules
were only included in the global filter path which explicitly skips via
grants (compileFilterRules skips grants with non-empty Via fields).
Add a needsPerNodeFilter flag that is true when the policy uses either
autogroup:self or via grants. filterForNodeLocked now uses this flag
instead of usesAutogroupSelf alone, ensuring via grant rules are
compiled per-node through compileFilterRulesForNode/compileViaGrant.
The filter cache also needs to account for route-dependent compilation:
- nodesHavePolicyAffectingChanges now treats route changes as
policy-affecting when needsPerNodeFilter is true, so SetNodes
triggers updateLocked and clears caches through the normal flow.
- invalidateGlobalPolicyCache now clears compiledFilterRulesMap
(the unreduced per-node cache) alongside filterRulesMap when
needsPerNodeFilter is true and routes changed.
Updates #2180
Action.UnmarshalJSON produces the format
'action="unknown-action" is not supported: invalid ACL action',
not the reversed format the test expected.
Updates #2180
Add servertest grant policy control plane tests covering basic grants, via grants, and cap grants. Fix ReduceRoutes in State to apply route reduction to non-via routes first, then append via-included routes, preventing via grant routes from being incorrectly filtered.
Updates #2180
Test via route computation for viewer-peer pairs: self-steering returns
empty, viewer not in source returns empty, peer without advertised
destination returns empty, peer with/without via tag populates
Include/Exclude respectively, mixed prefix and autogroup:internet
destinations, and exit route steering.
7 subtests covering all code paths in ViaRoutesForPeer.
Updates #2180
Test companionCapGrantRules, sourcesHaveWildcard, sourcesHaveDangerAll,
srcIPsWithRoutes, the FilterAllowAll fix for grant-only policies,
compileViaGrant, compileGrantWithAutogroupSelf grant paths, and
destinationsToNetPortRange autogroup:internet skipping.
51 subtests across 8 test functions covering all grant-specific code
paths in filter.go that previously had no test coverage.
Updates #2180
Add NodeAttrsTaildriveShare and NodeAttrsTaildriveAccess to the node capability map, enabling Taildrive file sharing when granted via policy. Add integration test verifying the full cap/drive grant lifecycle.
Updates #2180
Add ConnectToNetwork to the TailscaleClient interface for multi-network test scenarios and implement peer relay ping support. Use these to test that cap/relay grants correctly enable peer-to-peer relay connections between tagged nodes.
Updates #2180
compileFilterRules checked only pol.ACLs == nil to decide whether
to return FilterAllowAll (permit-any). Policies that use only Grants
(no ACLs) had nil ACLs, so the function short-circuited before
compiling any CapGrant rules. This meant cap/relay, cap/drive, and
any other App-based grant capabilities were silently ignored.
Check both ACLs and Grants are empty before returning FilterAllowAll.
Updates #2180
Add integration tests validating that via grants correctly steer
routes to designated nodes per client group:
- TestGrantViaSubnetSteering: two routers advertise the same
subnet, via grants steer each client group to a specific router.
Verifies per-client route visibility, curl reachability, and
traceroute path.
- TestGrantViaExitNodeSteering: two exit nodes, via grants steer
each client group to a designated exit node. Verifies exit
routes are withdrawn from non-designated nodes and the client
rejects setting a non-designated exit node.
- TestGrantViaMixedSteering: cross-steering where subnet routes
and exit routes go to different servers per client group.
Verifies subnet traffic uses the subnet-designated server while
exit traffic uses the exit-designated server.
Also add autogroupp helper for constructing AutoGroup aliases in
grant policy configurations.
Updates #2180
Via grants steer routes to specific nodes per viewer. Until now,
all clients saw the same routes for each peer because route
assembly was viewer-independent. This implements per-viewer route
visibility so that via-designated peers serve routes only to
matching viewers, while non-designated peers have those routes
withdrawn.
Add ViaRouteResult type (Include/Exclude prefix lists) and
ViaRoutesForPeer to the PolicyManager interface. The v2
implementation iterates via grants, resolves sources against the
viewer, matches destinations against the peer's advertised routes
(both subnet and exit), and categorizes prefixes by whether the
peer has the via tag.
Add RoutesForPeer to State which composes global primary election,
via Include/Exclude filtering, exit routes, and ACL reduction.
When no via grants exist, it falls back to existing behavior.
Update the mapper to call RoutesForPeer per-peer instead of using
a single route function for all peers. The route function now
returns all routes (subnet + exit), and TailNode filters exit
routes out of the PrimaryRoutes field for HA tracking.
Updates #2180
compileViaGrant only handled *Prefix destinations, skipping
*AutoGroup entirely. This meant via grants with
dst=[autogroup:internet] produced no filter rules even when the
node was an exit node with approved exit routes.
Switch the destination loop from a type assertion to a type switch
that handles both *Prefix (subnet routes) and *AutoGroup (exit
routes via autogroup:internet). Also check ExitRoutes() in
addition to SubnetRoutes() so the function doesn't bail early
when a node only has exit routes.
Updates #2180
Add autogroup:danger-all as a valid source alias that matches ALL IP
addresses including non-Tailscale addresses. When used as a source,
it resolves to 0.0.0.0/0 + ::/0 internally but produces SrcIPs: ["*"]
in filter rules. When used as a destination, it is rejected with an
error matching Tailscale SaaS behavior.
Key changes:
- Add AutoGroupDangerAll constant and validation
- Add sourcesHaveDangerAll() helper and hasDangerAll parameter to
srcIPsWithRoutes() across all compilation paths
- Add ErrAutogroupDangerAllDst for destination rejection
- Remove 3 AUTOGROUP_DANGER_ALL skip entries (K6, K7, K8)
Updates #2180
Implement comprehensive grant validation including: accept empty sources/destinations (they produce no rules), validate grant ip/app field requirements, capability name format, autogroup constraints, via tag existence, and default route CIDR restrictions.
Updates #2180
Compile grants with "via" field into FilterRules that are placed only
on nodes matching the via tag and actually advertising the destination
subnets. Key behavior:
- Filter rules go exclusively to via-nodes with matching approved routes
- Destination subnets not advertised by the via node are silently dropped
- App-only via grants (no ip field) produce no packet filter rules
- Via grants are skipped in the global compileFilterRules since they
are node-specific
Reduces grant compat test skips from 41 to 30 (11 newly passing).
Updates #2180
Compile grant app fields into CapGrant FilterRules matching Tailscale
SaaS behavior. Key changes:
- Generate CapGrant rules in compileFilterRules and
compileGrantWithAutogroupSelf, with node-specific /32 and /128
Dsts for autogroup:self grants
- Add reversed companion rules for drive→drive-sharer and
relay→relay-target capabilities, ordered by original cap name
- Narrow broad CapGrant Dsts to node-specific prefixes in
ReduceFilterRules via new reduceCapGrantRule helper
- Skip merging CapGrant rules in mergeFilterRules to preserve
per-capability structure
- Remove ip+app mutual exclusivity validation (Tailscale accepts both)
- Add semantic JSON comparison for RawMessage types and netip.Prefix
comparators in test infrastructure
Reduces grant compat test skips from 99 to 41 (58 newly passing).
Updates #2180
When an ACL source list contains a wildcard (*) alongside explicit
sources (tags, groups, hosts, etc.), Tailscale preserves the individual
IPs from non-wildcard sources in SrcIPs alongside the merged wildcard
CGNAT ranges. Previously, headscale's IPSetBuilder would merge all
sources into a single set, absorbing the explicit IPs into the wildcard
range.
Track non-wildcard resolved addresses separately during source
resolution, then append their individual IP strings to the output
when a wildcard is also present. This fixes the remaining 5 ACL
compat test failures (K01 and M06 subtests).
Updates #2180
When an ACL has non-autogroup destinations (groups, users, tags, hosts)
alongside autogroup:self, emit non-self grants before self grants to
match Tailscale's filter rule ordering. ACLs with only autogroup
destinations (self + member) preserve the policy-defined order.
This fixes ACL-A17, ACL-SF07, and ACL-SF11 compat test failures.
Updates #2180
Add exit route check in ReduceFilterRules to prevent exit nodes from receiving packet filter rules for destinations that only overlap via exit routes. Remove resolved SUBNET_ROUTE_FILTER_RULES grant skip entries and update error message formatting for grant validation.
Updates #2180
Per Tailscale documentation, the wildcard (*) source includes "any
approved subnets" — the actually-advertised-and-approved routes from
nodes, not the autoApprover policy prefixes.
Change Asterix.resolve() to return just the base CGNAT+ULA set, and
add approved subnet routes as separate SrcIPs entries in the filter
compilation path. This preserves individual route prefixes that would
otherwise be merged by IPSet (e.g., 10.0.0.0/8 absorbing 10.33.0.0/16).
Also swap rule ordering in compileGrantWithAutogroupSelf() to emit
non-self destination rules before autogroup:self rules, matching the
Tailscale FilterRule wire format ordering.
Remove the unused AutoApproverPolicy.prefixes() method.
Updates #2180
Add routable_ips and approved_routes fields to the node topology
definitions in all golden test files. These represent the subnet
routes actually advertised by nodes on the Tailscale SaaS network
during data capture:
Routes topology (92 files, 6 router nodes):
big-router: 10.0.0.0/8
subnet-router: 10.33.0.0/16
ha-router1: 192.168.1.0/24
ha-router2: 192.168.1.0/24
multi-router: 172.16.0.0/24
exit-node: 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
ACL topology (199 files, 1 router node):
subnet-router: 10.33.0.0/16
Grants topology (203 files, 1 router node):
subnet-router: 10.33.0.0/16
The route assignments were deduced from the golden data by analyzing
which router nodes receive FilterRules for which destination CIDRs
across all test files, and cross-referenced with the MTS setup
script (setup_grant_nodes.sh).
Updates #2180
Use ip.String() instead of netip.PrefixFrom(ip, ip.BitLen()).String()
when building DstPorts for autogroup:self destinations. This produces
bare IPs like "100.90.199.68" instead of CIDR notation like
"100.90.199.68/32", matching the Tailscale FilterRule wire format.
Updates #2180
AppendToIPSet now adds both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for nodes, matching Tailscale's FilterRule wire format where identity-based aliases (tags, users, groups, autogroups) resolve to both address families. Update ReduceFilterRules test expectations to include IPv6 entries.
Updates #2180
Replace 8,286 lines of inline Go test expectations with 92 JSON golden files captured from Tailscale SaaS. The data-driven test driver validates route filtering, auto-approval, HA routing, and exit node behavior against real Tailscale output.
Updates #2180
Replace 9,937 lines of inline Go test expectations with 215 JSON golden files captured from Tailscale SaaS. The new data-driven test driver compares headscale's filter compilation output against real Tailscale behavior for each node in an 8-node topology.
Updates #2180
Introduce ResolvedAddresses type for structured IP set results. Refactor all Alias.Resolve() methods to return ResolvedAddresses instead of raw IPSets. Restrict identity-based aliases to matching address families, fix nil dereferences in partial resolution paths, and update test expectations for the new IP format (bare IPs, IP ranges instead of CIDR prefixes).
Updates #2180
Rename tailscale_compat_test.go to tailscale_acl_compat_test.go to make room for the grants compat test. Add 237 GRANT-*.json golden test files captured from Tailscale SaaS and a data-driven test driver that compares headscale's grant filter compilation against real Tailscale behavior.
Updates #2180
Add support for the Grant policy format as an alternative to ACL format,
following Tailscale's policy v2 specification. Grants provide a more
structured way to define network access rules with explicit separation
of IP-based and capability-based permissions.
Key changes:
- Add Grant struct with Sources, Destinations, InternetProtocols (ip),
and App (capabilities) fields
- Add ProtocolPort type for unmarshaling protocol:port strings
- Add Grant validation in Policy.validate() to enforce:
- Mutual exclusivity of ip and app fields
- Required ip or app field presence
- Non-empty sources and destinations
- Refactor compileFilterRules to support both ACLs and Grants
- Convert ACLs to Grants internally via aclToGrants() for unified
processing
- Extract destinationsToNetPortRange() helper for cleaner code
- Rename parseProtocol() to toIANAProtocolNumbers() for clarity
- Add ProtocolNumberToName mapping for reverse lookups
The Grant format allows policies to be written using either the legacy
ACL format or the new Grant format. ACLs are converted to Grants
internally, ensuring backward compatibility while enabling the new
format's benefits.
Updates #2180
WithTags was defined but never passed through to CreatePreAuthKey.
Fix NewClient to use CreateTaggedPreAuthKey when tags are specified,
enabling tests that need tagged nodes (e.g. via grant steering).
Updates #2180
When exit routes are approved, SubnetRoutes remains empty because exit
routes (0.0.0.0/0, ::/0) are classified separately. Without checking
ExitRoutes, the PolicyManager cache is not invalidated on exit route
approval, causing stale filter rules that lack via grant entries for
autogroup:internet destinations.
Updates #2180
