This month at Tailscale: Visual policy editor, state encryption, and Grafana Cloud

Tailscale's recent updates focus on enhancing network reliability, manageability, and security with the introduction of a visual policy editor, data encryption at rest, and integration with Grafana Cloud. The visual policy editor, currently in beta, offers a user-friendly alternative to the HuJSON format, allowing users to manage tailnet access permissions through web-based tools. The encryption of data at rest secures the state file on disk, mitigating risks from attackers with disk access. The partnership with Grafana enables secure connections of data sources within a tailnet to a Grafana Cloud stack, avoiding exposure to the public internet. Additionally, a series of client updates in versions 1.86.0, 1.86.2, and 1.86.4 enhance security and stability across platforms, including fixes for Android, iOS, Windows, and macOS systems. The 1.86.5 release also brings improvements to containers, Kubernetes, and tsrecorder, with updates like enhanced direct connectivity in Kubernetes and the introduction of the Tailscale Kubernetes proxy.