This month at Tailscale for January 2026

Tailscale's recent updates for January 2026 focus on enhancing network reliability, manageability, and security through several key changes across their software infrastructure. Federated identities have been more deeply integrated into Tailscale's API, client configuration, and Terraform provider, while the city name for the India DERP server has been updated to Bengaluru without altering hosting or IP addresses. Notable client updates include the discontinuation of default state file encryption and hardware attestation keys for Windows and Linux users, although Apple and Android devices maintain secure storage encryption. The Tailscale GitHub Action has been adjusted for proper architecture cache management on macOS, and Kubernetes-related updates include the removal of hardware attestation keys from state Secrets and a shift in certificate renewal processes. Additionally, the tsrecorder update includes only library updates, and Tailscale continues to provide support for user feedback and inquiries.