v7.6

Knocknoc 7.6

Enhancements

Knocknoc 7.6 continues the theme of user-experience improvements, this time for end users. But don't be fooled, there's other goodies in here for you.

Don't miss the Palo Alto enhancements - we now leverage the powerful Palo Alto User-ID feature you know and love, on both Active and Passive+ Knocknoc integration modes. We've added native Cisco Firepower support along with other improvements.

✨ New User Experience (Feedback please!)

• New end-user UI
  Users now land on a fresh interface that’s faster, friendlier, and customizable. Favoriting, grouping, and recently-used Knocs make life easier.

  • Default for new installs

  • Opt-in via Admin Settings for existing installs - allowing you to roll out a visual login change in a safe and communicated way...

  • Designed to make regular access a breeze with automatic recent items.

• Knoc Images + Grouping
  Admins can now group Knocs and assign custom logos, helping users visually differentiate between environments or access types.

• Light Mode Support
  We were dark mode by default, but customer feedback was heard! A clean light-mode UI is now available, with automatic system-preference detection (default) or manual override. Pro tip: Admins should upload a light-friendly company logo for best results.

🔐 Power to the Admins

• NewShared UserAgent UIRegistration Key:
  Perfect Afterfor loggingIaC in,and endautomation userspipelines, are now presented with a UI thatagents can be organized and favorited, with recently-used entries now grouped automatically for easier future use. To ease change-control, existing installs will have this turned off by default, which can be controlled within Settings as an Admin user. This new UI is on by default for all new installs, and can be turned off in the same Admin Settings location for the time being. 
• Knoc images (new user ui): Knoc configurations can be grouped by Administrators, with a logo added for differentiation. 
• Light mode: A "light mode" version now exists for Users. The default follows the system-preferences, but can be overwritten within the menu. A "light mode" logo should be uploaded by Administrators. Until this is done, a dark background is automatically added to existing images.
• Agent registration: Agents can be registered using a shared API key, (instead of a per-agent token. This aids in IaC/CD pipeline deployments.tokens).
• Direct userUser assignmentAssignment: Users
  You can benow assign Knocs directly assignedto Knocs,users whereas- previouslyno Groupsgroups were required.needed.

• Knocs/BackendsAudit Log Enhancements:
  More detail, better visibility. Admins now get deeper error insights and cleaner event histories.

• Password Policy Updates
  Stronger password complexity visual feedback is now shown for local (non-SAML) users.

🔥 Palo Alto Enhancements

• Palo Alto/Panos

  User-ID Integration
  The User-ID data is now providespassed the "user-ID" value onin Passive+ and Active modemodes settings.
  - gaining all the benefits those bring within the Palo Alto ecosystem.

• Simpler Panos

  Easier PanOS API Integration
  Our Knocker helper tool now makes API key creation usingfor Knocker.PanOS dramatically simpler.

⚙️ Knocs and Integrations

• Cisco Firepower supportSupport
  Yep, added.we’ve added it.

• Integration Telemetry
  New addedresponse-time tovisibility measurefor responseyour timesintegrations of- integrations,track seeit all from the logs.

🛠

Password complexity changes: for Local (non IDP/SAML) user accounts.

Audit logs: Better detail in audit-logs shown to Admin users. Improved KnocEvent detail in error cases.

Bug fixes

• Click to Revoke: All Knoc's/ACLsACL types can now be revoked.
  
• Server logs: Server log redactions were overly zealous and obfuscated correct log entries.
• Various: Various small bug fixes, this is worth the upgrade!

💬 Heads Up: The new User UI is off by default for existing customers. Want to try it out? Toggle it on in Admin Settings and see the difference for yourself.

 

Release Date: 20th May 2025