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v7.5

Knocknoc 7.5  🚀

Knocknoc 7.5 marks a major milestone in our journey to redefine secure network access. This release is a comprehensive redesign of the user experience, delivering a streamlined, intuitive interface that empowers both administrators and end users with greater control and clarity — without compromising on power.

But Knocknoc 7.5 isn’t just a facelift — it’s a massive uplift in features, performance, and security.

✨ New UI & Streamlined Workflow

  • Redesigned interface with a responsive, intuitive layout

  • Cleaner workflows make complex tasks simpler and faster

  • “Click to revoke” now available alongside “click to grant”
  • Improved visibility into admin, user and system activity

🔗 Firewall & Integration Enhancements

  • Native orchestration for Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks (including Panorama)

  • Unified workflow to configure Passive, Passive+, and Active modes

  • Simplified integration with Linux Netfilter/IPTables/IPSets (existing IPSets now visible in your Server, per Agent)

  • HAProxy agent capabilities are now passed to the server, including socket locations

🔐 Credential Security

  • Credentials for backend orchestrated systems (firewalls, clouds, custom scripts) are now encrypted using an approach akin to zero-knowledge, ensuring a breach of either the Server or Agent do not result in credential exposure.

  • Custom scripts support environment variables, with the username and other values passed by default (see here)

  • Protected (secret) environment variables now supported for safely passing API tokens and credentials

🔐 SAML & Access Control Improvements

  • Simpler SAML integration and setup for administrators

  • User/group mapping now supports:

    • SAML groups

    • Local groups

    • Dynamic groups (combining local users with SAML groups)

  • Enhanced access-grant event de-duplication - boosting performance and reducing noise

  • In-server SAML key management - no external handling required

⚙️ Platform and Minor Enhancements

  • User license usage now allows for overages, preventing disruption during growth phases
  • Increased logging visibility: access grants, admin actions, user activity

  • Better redaction in trace-level log mode to protect sensitive details

  • More ports added to discovery methods, for better CGNAT detection
  • Case-insensitive handling of sessionDuration SAML variable

🔄 Architecture Simplification

  • Backends and ACLs replaced with Knocs — simplifying management

📦 Security updates (packages)

  • Various package updates, including Golang security updates

Knocknoc 7.5 is built for the environments where access can’t just be controlled — it needs to be earned, verified, and continuously protected. Whether you're managing critical infrastructure, complex networks, or hybrid environments, this release is designed to meet you there.

It's important you update your Agents if you want to make use of the new functionality!

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Release Date: 10th April 2025


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