Changelog

[1.5.2] - 2026-06-16¶

• New Backups now include your full configuration (interfaces, peers, users, settings); restoring a backup brings back a working setup instead of an empty first-run database
• New Backups can optionally export metrics history with a configurable time range from the last 7 days up to 1 year
• Fix Speed test scheduling and result recording fixed: nodes run at most one scheduled test per day and failed measurements are no longer stored as valid results
• Fix Live progress (SSE) and per-IP rate limiting corrected for edge cases
• Security CSRF referer validation hardened; login protection now also throttles repeated failed attempts per username across changing IP addresses

[1.5.1] - 2026-05-29¶

• Fix DNS statistics and DNS query logs are displayed reliably again in the GUI
• Fix DNS blocklist updates, reloads and logging are more stable and no longer break as easily in daily use
• Fix Speed tests now start more reliably and show live progress correctly again
• Fix Dashboard KPIs and traffic cards were visually refined for clearer values, better empty states and improved mobile layout
• Fix Login, MFA and passkey sign-in flows are more reliable
• Fix Additional security hardening in the web UI and API

[1.5.0] - 2026-05-26¶

• New A new feature allows each peer to connect to all available nodes.
• New arm64 images are now built natively
• Fix Massive Redesign of many the Frontend/GUI Elements
• Fix Improved Caching behavior of DNS stats
• Fix Several Security Improvements
• Fix Update Python dependencies

[1.4.6] - 2026-05-10¶

• Fix A rollback bug in the backup routine has been fixed
• Fix On iOS, the country table was not displayed correctly in the traffic metrics
• Fix It was not possible to add additional nodes
• Fix A persistent bug was preventing speed tests
• Fix Various stability improvements in the Wirebuddy engine
• Fix General stability improvements in WireBuddy engine
• Fix Several design improvements in the GUI
• Fix Update Python dependencies

[1.4.5] - 2026-04-26¶

• Fix Various improvements to the GUI and fixes for display errors
• Fix Peers connected via a node did not display traffic details in the statistics
• Fix After restarting the Docker container, the Speedtest results from the last run were gone
• Fix Numerous stability improvements in the Wirebuddy engine
• Fix Update Python dependencies

[1.4.4] - 2026-04-20¶

• New SVG flags removed from the Docker image and replaced with CDN Load
• New "Recent Peer Activity" now only shows peers who have been active in the last 30 days
• Fix 🔥 A bug in the passkey validation process allowed users to log in even if their passkey had been deleted
• Fix When a token is regenerated for a node, the associated peer is left orphaned
• Fix Front-end performance improvements
• Fix Update Python dependencies

[1.4.3] - 2026-04-10¶

• Fix 🔥 Node re-enrollment loop when state file was lost (certificate-based recovery)
• Fix Traffic analysis queries now cached for 30s (faster page loads)
• Fix Peer names now support apostrophes (e.g., "John's iPhone")
• Fix API validation consistency improved for peer updates
• Fix Reduced unnecessary warnings in logs during normal operation
• Fix Various stability improvements in the Wirebuddy engine

[1.4.2] - 2026-04-10¶

• New Update multiple Python dependencies
• Fix Metrics from the nodes were not reliably transmitted to the master
• Fix No Speedtest results for the master were displayed on the dashboard
• Fix Various stability improvements in the Wirebuddy engine

[1.4.1] - 2026-04-02¶

• New Switching the speed test to librespeed-cli for more reliable results ↗
• New Speed tests are now also conducted regularly on nodes with real-time progress updates ↗
• New Time range filters added to DNS trend chart (7d, 30d, 90d, 180d, 1y) ↗
• New Dashboard speedtest chart now shows upload/download for all nodes with time range selection ↗
• New DNS metrics are now also available via TSDB for faster display in the GUI
• Fix When a docker stop command is executed, the SQLite database is now closed correctly
• Fix Dashboard node counter displayed 0 even when nodes existed
• Fix DNS query logs not displayed correctly on mobile devices
• Fix Restarting a node triggered a 503 error
• Fix 🔥 Nodes deleted themselves when master was unavailable
• Fix Improved security against host header injection attacks
• Fix General stability improvements in WireBuddy engine
• Fix DNS module: Improved thread-safety and performance
• Fix Better error handling during application shutdown
• Fix Optimized retry logic to prevent load spikes

[1.4.0] - 2026-03-30¶

• New Node mode is here! 🎉 WIrebuddy can now run on multiple instances at the same time! ↗
• New DNS logging can be enabled or disabled for each peer ↗
• New Added the tzdata package to support time zones ↗
• New PSK is now enabled by default ↗
• Fix Python dependencies updated
• Fix Fixed an issue with the test server selection for the speed test
• Fix Improved caching behavior for graphs
• Fix Several design improvements in the GUI

[1.3.3] - 2026-03-23¶

• New The dashboard now also displays the network load for each interface ↗
• Fix Design optimized for iPad display
• Fix The DNS ad blocker could be launched even if Unbound wasn't installed
• Fix The changes to the downstream and upstream values were not saved
• Fix In some cases, the peer name was not displayed in the DNS logs
• Fix If a DNS blocklist has been disabled, the filter has not been updated
• Fix Several design improvements in the GUI

[1.3.2] - 2026-03-16¶

• New A documentary is now available online: https://gill-bates.github.io/wirebuddy/ ↗
• New Search filter for peers
• New Connection animation on the status page ↗
• Fix Hardening the TDSB Engine for Handling Compressed Files
• Fix Improved stability in the Unbound Watchdog process
• Fix Improved stability in the speed test engine
• Fix Sessions expired after 1 hour, despite user interaction
• Fix A validation routine in the DNS Leak Indicator produced incorrect results
• Fix Several design improvements

[1.3.1] - 2026-03-13¶

• New New health endpoint for a Docker health check ↗
• New Added speed test to monitor server performance ↗
• Fix An incorrectly entered password did not generate an error message
• Fix The charts for traffic metrics provided some contradictory information
• Fix When logged in, several error messages appeared in the GUI under Settings
• Fix A timeout occurred while saving DNS custom rules
• Fix Security hardening in the MFA routine & Credential handling
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.3.0] - 2026-03-07¶

• New Introducing Passkey for Users to Signin ↗
• New A global quick filter for peers has been introduced under DNS
• New The Swagger endpoint can now be disabled in the settings ↗
• Fix Security hardening of settings endpoints
• Fix The adaptive calculation of measurement points optimizes
• Fix Fixed display issues on tablets
• Fix The retention policy for DNS logs did not apply correctly
• Fix Fixed a bug that caused Unbound to crash on startup

[1.2.2] - 2026-03-05¶

• New The ad blocker can now be temporarily disabled on a time-based basis ↗
• New Added a /swagger endpoint ↗
• New Metrics can now be saved and deleted in a more differentiated manner
• New Traffic statistics are now also grouped by ASN ↗
• New Users without admin rights can log in with read-only rights ↗
• Fix The logs now show the real IP addresses and not those from the reverse proxy
• Fix Various stability improvements in the backend and GUI
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.2.1] - 2026-03-02¶

• New Passwords for users now require a minimum level of complexity ↗
• New The DNS ad blocker can now be enabled and disabled globally ↗
• New A new "Traffic" section now bundles all network activities in an overview ↗
• New Completely revised migration framework for the database
• Fix The /status page now reliably detects an existing Wireguard connection
• Fix Various stability improvements in the backend engine
• Fix Disabling OTP for a user had no effect
• Fix Due to a regex validation error, no new user could be created
• Fix The block lists did not update automatically every 24 hour
• Fix Creating another Wireguard interface used the same IP range
• Fix When a peer is deleted, the time series data is now also deleted
• Fix Application made more resilient when started with an incorrect encryption key
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.2.0] - 2026-02-26¶

• New Introducing MFA to provide an additional layer of access restriction ↗
• New Easylist has been replaced by the significantly more comprehensive HaGeZi Pro ↗
• New Update Dependencies (fastapi)
• New A new status page now allows you to check the configuration on the client side ↗
• New You can now define your own filter rules for each client ↗
• Fix The bleach package has been replaced by nh3
• Fix The creation of new peers also automatically created a new PSK
• Fix The blocklists are no longer downloaded again each time the container is restarted
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.1.1] - 2026-02-24¶

• New When Wirebuddy is running in bridge mode, an alternative port can be defined for the Wireguard configuration
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.1.0] - 2026-02-23¶

• New Switching from HTTP authentication to cookie authentication ↗
• New You can now add your own allow and block lists to the DNS ↗
• New DNS logs can now be deleted ↗
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.0.2] - 2026-02-22¶

• New Update Dependencies (fastapi)
• Fix Changing the password had no effect
• Fix Unbound crashed unexpectedly when the blocklist was updated
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.0.1] - 2026-02-20¶

• New Internal DNS serve (Unbound) is now dual-stack capable
• New Custom DNS upstream servers added by the user are now checked before saving ↗
• Fix The pie charts under DNS displayed incorrect values due to a race condition
• Fix In the front end, each block list was displayed with the same size (7 MB)
• Fix Various security hardening measures (e.g. brute force, IP spoofing)
• Fix And as always: Several design improvements to make the front end more mobile-friendly

[1.0.0] - 2026-02-19¶

• Project initialization