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Behind the Winter Update was months of coordination, iteration, and cross-team execution.

This post is a shoutout to the folks who made the week possible. Read more on our blog

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LM Link: Access models on your powerful devices you own, as if they were local Tailscale and LM Studio partner to provide encrypted access to remote LLMs on hardware you own.

Use local models on remote devices you control—as if they were local.

- Introducing LM Link from LM Studio.
- Encrypted, identity-based access to your own LLM hardware.
- No public endpoints. No API key sprawl.

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Stop opening firewall ports and start using identity | We Love Open Source • All Things Open Learn how to eliminate open firewall ports and secure remote access using Tailscale and WireGuard tunnels. Allen Vailliencourt demonstrates subnet routers, app connectors, identity-based SSH, and…

Remember LAN parties? Plug in and everything just worked.

For allthingsopen.bsky.social, Allen on the Tailscale Solutions Engineering team recreated that across AWS, a home lab, hotel WiFi, and MongoDB Atlas.

Watch it here - allthingsopen.org/articles/sto...

Join us later today on Discord, as Avery and Travis recap the week's announcements, including Aperture, CI/CD workload connectivity updates, PAM, and more, plus an open AMA.

Kicks off at 4pm ET/1pm PT today! See you there! discord.gg/tailscale?ev...

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Identity-based access is only half the story. You also need clear, queryable records of what actually happened.

Tailscale now adds identity-linked auditability across K8s, traffic, and SSH, without heavyweight PAM infrastructure.

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Workload identity federation is now GA in Tailscale.

CI, cloud, and Kubernetes workloads can authenticate using native OIDC identities instead of long-lived secrets, with API, Terraform, and tsnet support.

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@rburchell.bsky.social reposted with the correct link! Sorry about that.

Fleet device posture is now GA in Tailscale. 🎉 You can now use Fleet device state in Tailscale access policies, so enforcement says aligned as device state changes.💻

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Tailscale Services is now generally available.

Publish internal resources as named, identity-aware services instead of wiring clients to machines or IPs. Now app-aware with tsnet, Kubernetes support, and better observability.

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Log streaming now supports Google Cloud Storage (GCS).

Export audit/config logs and network flow logs (Enterprise) into your own GCS bucket for retention, investigation, and compliance, without breaking encryption.

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We’ve launched a new device posture integration with Huntress, now GA🎉

Huntress endpoint security signals can now be used directly in policies, so access updates automatically as device risk changes.

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Direct paths aren’t always possible in locked-down networks.

Peer Relays lets you run high-throughput relays on your own nodes, with static endpoints for restricted cloud environments and built-in observability. Now in GA 🎉

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Tailscale Winter Update Securely connect to anything on the internet with Tailscale. Built on WireGuard®️, Tailscale enables you to make finely configurable connections, secured end-to-end according to zero trust…

❄️ If you’ve seen the Winter Update news this week, come get the full walkthrough live. We’ll cover:

✅ workload connectivity
✅ performance
✅ compliance/auditability
✅ securing AI systems
✅ integrations

📅 Feb 19 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT
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Winter Update Week is here ❄️

New Tailscale podcast episode with Alex + Avery, Kabir, and Harry covering what’s shipping this week and why it matters.

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API key sprawl + AI agents is a bad combo.

We are launching the Aperture by Tailscale open alpha: an AI gateway inside your tailnet that keeps provider keys centralized and ties AI usage to identity, with audit-ready logs.
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While the week is just getting started, there’s an exciting Discord Fireside chat with Avery (CEO), and Travis (VP, CX) on Friday to wrap things up!

Join us at 4pm ET/1pm PT on Friday February 20th. discord.gg/tailscale?ev...

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Over the next week: what’s next for Tailscale as we expand from secure user connectivity into a platform for modern infrastructure access (AI workloads, services, cloud, Kubernetes, privileged access).

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Tickets for #tailscaleup26, our flagship conference for engineering, security, and IT leaders, are on sale now! Save $200 if you register before 3/31. Interested in speaking? Our call for sessions is now open too. Visit tailscaleup.com for all the details. 📣

Staying secure and simple in a complex world Tailscale's CEO on the challenges of meeting increasingly diverse customer needs, and the hiring of a new VP of product.

Tailscale is growing. The hard part isn’t adding features.
It’s growing without losing the simplicity people love.
That’s why we’re excited to welcome Ross Kukulinski as VP of Product.

More on how we’re thinking about staying secure and simple 👇
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Tailscale Happy Hour Brussels Tailscale Community Meetup Brussels

If you’re in Brussels for FOSDEM, or just nearby, come and grab a drink at our happy hour on January 31st! We'll have great food, drinks and company 😁

RSVP here: tailscale.com/events-webin...

Using Tailscale's Peer Relays to fix a homelab connection from across the globe Getting from Delhi back to a Minnesota meant unforgiving networks. Tailscale Peer Relays offered a massive improvement.

You're on the other side of the world, seeing brutally low bitrates and frequent drops reaching your homelab. What can you do? One Tailscale engineer deployed Tailscale Peer Relays, with a 12.5X result: tailscale.com/blog/peer-re...

The Tailscale Winter Update webinar is coming. We’re covering major new platform capabilities for performance, enterprise compliance, workload connectivity, and securing AI systems, plus what’s new for integrations.

📅 Feb 19 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT

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Tailscale + BlueBubbles makes an iMessage on Windows and Android less complex Let Tailscale set up the encryption and permanent IP, and avoid port forwarding, for a BlueBubbles server.

iMessage on Windows, Android, or Linux? BlueBubbles on a Mac makes it possible. And it might not be as tricky as you think, if you use Tailscale to hook everything up securely. tailscale.com/blog/bluebub...

Tailscale's Terraform module for predictable multi-cloud deployments Built from thousands of hours of experience, this module provides a consistent, battle-tested bootstrap path.

Cloud-init can be tough, and we've heard all about it. So we built an open-source Terraform module, one that helps provide a more consistent Tailscale experience across AWS, Azure, GCP, and everywhere. No more surprises, OS quirks, or other mysteries: tailscale.com/blog/open-so...

Winter is coming ❄️ (we’re excited about it!). Join the Tailscale Winter Update webinar with updates for dev workflows, performance, compliance, and securing AI systems.
📅 Feb 19 🕐 1pm ET / 10am PT

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Building a transparent proxy around ISP routing failures with Tailscale Services How Blacksmith built a secure load-balancing proxy with Tailscale Services

What can you do about an ISP outage—on Thanksgiving day? If you're Blacksmith, you use Tailscale Services to build an immediate, zero-config proxy for GitHub traffic, so it doesn't happen again: tailscale.com/blog/blacksm...

Chat-tails is a terminal-based chat app, made secure with Tailscale Brian Scott made an app that's safe, simple, and educational for kids to chat in, using Tailscale's tsnet and connectivity.

Tailscale's community takes our secure connectivity and runs it to interesting places. One example: Chat-tails, an old-school, terminal-based chat app: tailscale.com/blog/chat-ta...

Join us at Gartner IO

🔐Tailscale’s at #GartnerIO NA in Vegas (Dec 9–11) 🎲
Come by Booth #515 (Networks & Security).

🎙️Hear Allen Vailliencourt: 12/11 11:00–11:30 · Zeno 4610
🍸Then happy hour w/ Mezmo + Catchpoint: 12/10 8–10pm at The Venetian!
RSVP: www.mezmo.com/event/the-su...

Join DevRel Lead and YouTube Host Alex, Community Manager Natasha, and Technical Content Manager Kevin at 1pm EST December 10th on Discord for a conversation about how we are shaping and growing the Tailscale community.

Join here: discord.gg/tailscale?ev...

Today’s the day 🎉 Tailscale is teaming up with LaunchDarkly at #reinvent!

Come hang in the Developer Lounge at The Rockhouse (Venetian Grand Canal Shoppes) today, 8am–5pm PT. Free food + drinks all day, keynote livestream, and plenty of good convo.

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