# Firezone Blog

Announcements, how-tos, and more from the Firezone team.

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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:

- **New feature:** Internet Resources
- **New feature:** REST API
  
  Beta
- **New feature:** Improved wildcard matching for DNS Resources
- **Blog post:** [sans-IO: The secret to effective Rust for network services](/content/blog/sans-io/index.html)

**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:

- **New feature:** Conditional access policies
- **Blog post:** [Using Tauri to build a cross-platform security app](/content/blog/using-tauri/index.html)
- **Blog post:** [Improving reliability for DNS Resources](/content/blog/improving-reliability-for-dns-resources/index.html)
- New [support](/content/support/index.html) page for getting help with Firezone.
- New [changelog](/content/changelog/index.html) page with release notes for every component we ship.

**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:

- **New feature:** Traffic restrictions
- Blog: [How DNS works in Firezone](/content/blog/how-dns-works-in-firezone/index.html)
- Connectivity and reliability improvements

**Jamil Bou Kheir**  
May 1, 2024

## April 2024 update: GA

Firezone [1.0 GA is now available](/content/blog/apr-2024-update/index.html)! Also in this update:

- Firezone 1.0 signups are [now open](https://app.firezone.dev/sign_up)
- New Team plan with self-serve billing
- Clients available for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and Linux
- Network roaming support

**Jamil Bou Kheir**  
April 1, 2024

## March 2024 update

Firezone [1.0.0-pre.9 is released](/content/blog/mar-2024-update/index.html)! In this update:

- Windows and Linux betas
- Directory sync for Microsoft Entra ID and Okta
- Improved performance and stability

**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