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Meet the new Firezone logo

Introducing a simpler, faster, and more recognizable logo for Firezone, plus a new brand kit for press and partners.

Jamil Bou Kheir
August 24, 2026

REST API generally available

The Firezone REST API leaves beta. Provision Gateways over the API, filter every list endpoint server-side, manage Group and device pool membership, and disable actors without deleting them.

Brian Manifold
August 20, 2026

Nothing on the wire but WireGuard

ICE and WireGuard gave us two opinions on whether a connection was healthy. We removed one of them and built NAT traversal with pure WireGuard.

Thomas Eizinger
July 30, 2026

Single-owner Gateway tokens: what changed

Learn why Firezone replaced shared Site tokens with single-owner Gateway tokens and how to migrate for zero-downtime rotation and individual revocation.

Brian Manifold
July 16, 2026

Action required: Windows MDM policies move to the machine scope in 1.5.13

Windows Client 1.5.13 reads MDM policy from the machine-scoped registry hive instead of the per-user hive. If you manage the Client with Intune or another MDM, learn how to import the updated ADMX template and migrate your policy.

Jamil Bou Kheir
June 4, 2026

The enterprise identity crisis: Who's Alice?

Alice signs in with Google and Okta. Same email address. Different identities. Which one got production access? In this post we answer this question and more by exploring the challenges of multi-provider identity in zero trust applications.

Jamil Bou Kheir and Brian Manifold
May 11, 2026

A New Look for Firezone

Announcing the new user interface for the Firezone portal, designed to be more intuitive, faster, and more accessible.

Brian Manifold
April 14, 2026

Scheduled Maintenance - December 6, 2025

Firezone will undergo scheduled maintenance on Saturday, December 6, 2025 from 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM Pacific Time to roll out major improvements to authentication, directory sync, and user and group management. We expect only a few minutes of downtime.

Firezone Team
November 22, 2025

Migrate your Internet Resource by March 15, 2025

We're making some changes to the way Internet Resources work to improve security and performance. Migrate your Internet Resources by March 15, 2025 to avoid any interruptions.

Jamil Bou Kheir
February 16, 2025

September 2024 update

In this update:

Jamil Bou Kheir
September 2, 2024

sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services

Firezone's data plane extensively uses the sans-IO design pattern. This post explains why we chose it and how you too can make use of it.

Thomas Eizinger
July 2, 2024

June 2024 update

In this update:

Jamil Bou Kheir
June 21, 2024

Improving reliability for DNS Resources

We're making some changes to the way DNS Resources are routed in Firezone. These changes will be coming in Client and Gateway versions 1.1 and later. Continue reading to understand how these changes will affect your network and what you need to do to take advantage of them.

Jamil Bou Kheir
June 20, 2024

Using Tauri to build a cross-platform security app

We chose Tauri over other frameworks because it was the fastest way to get the Firezone Client working on Linux and Windows.

ReactorScram
June 11, 2024

How DNS works in Firezone

Firezone's approach to DNS works a bit differently than one might expect. One question we often get from new users is, "why do my DNS Resources resolve to a different IP address with Firezone enabled?" Great question -- read on to find out.

Gabriel Steinberg
May 8, 2024

May 2024 update

In this update:

Jamil Bou Kheir
May 1, 2024

April 2024 update: GA

Firezone 1.0 GA is now available! Also in this update:

Jamil Bou Kheir
April 1, 2024

March 2024 update

Firezone 1.0.0-pre.9 is released! In this update:

Jamil Bou Kheir
March 1, 2024

January 2024 update

Happy new year from the Firezone team!

After a long year of building, we're incredibly excited to announce 1.0 beta testing for Apple and Android platforms. Firezone 1.0 is an entirely new product with a brand new architecture that includes many of the features you've been asking for.

Jamil Bou Kheir
January 1, 2024

Enterprises choose open source

More enterprises are turning to open source software (OSS) to reduce costs, improve efficiency, and extend their competitive advantage. The core technologies chosen by organizations often persist for decades, so decisions that IT leaders make today are bound to affect their organizations’ ability to function and adapt in the future — whether that’s one year, or 10.

Jeff Spencer
December 6, 2023

Secure remote access makes remote work a win-win

The number of employees working remotely is accelerating, so secure remote access should be a large part of any organization’s cybersecurity strategy. Secure remote access lets remote and hybrid employees work from anywhere in the world, on any device, without compromising your organization’s network, data, and system security.

Jeff Spencer
November 17, 2023

Firezone 1.0

Firezone comes from humble roots.

When we launched on Hacker News nearly two years ago, we never envisioned Firezone to be more than a simple tool for managing your WireGuard configurations.

Jamil Bou Kheir
July 15, 2023

Release 0.6.0

Today, I'm excited to announce we've closed the first public issue on our GitHub repository, more than a year after it was originally opened: Containerization support! We're also releasing preliminary support for SAML 2.0 identity providers like Okta and OneLogin.

Jamil Bou Kheir
October 17, 2022

Release 0.5.0

As the first post on our new blog, we thought it'd be fitting to kick things off with a release announcement. So without further ado, we're excited to announce: Firezone 0.5.0 is here! It's packed with new features, bug fixes, and other improvements — more on that below.

Jamil Bou Kheir
July 25, 2022