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  Steward v0.3.0-rc.1 Pre-release

  adam released this 2026-10-25 18:37:33 +00:00 | -19 commits to main since this release

  Added

  • Captive portals (docs/portal.md). A subnet's
    clients can be kept off the internet until they accept its terms on
    Steward's portal page, a page in Steward's colors (light and dark)
    with the subnet's own title and terms. Steward lets a signed-in client
    through by adding its address to a dynamic set in Housecarl, the
    firewall manager, with a timeout that ends with its session or its
    lease, whichever comes first. A session belongs to the client, not its
    address: the set follows it to a new address, and a client that comes
    back within its session time gets straight through. Steward checks
    the sets every minute and after every lease change, and takes out the
    other addresses of its portal subnets.
    • The page is served on its own addresses (portal.listen in
      steward.yaml, on the guest networks), apart from the web UI; any
      other site's web request the firewall sends there is redirected to
      it, so phones and laptops open it by themselves.
    • With an https:// portal.url, Steward sends it in DHCP option 114
      (RFC 8910), and answers the Captive Portal API (RFC 8908).
    • Per subnet: on or off, the Housecarl set, the session time (24
      hours by default), the title and the terms. steward portal set,
      the subnet's new Portal tab, portal in the subnet API.
    • Who is signed in, with Extend and End, and the clients that
      haven't signed in, with Let in for a TV or console that can't
      open the page: the Portal tab, steward portal sessions, let-in,
      extend, end, status; /portal and /portal/sessions in the
      API (the leases grant). SIGNED IN and SIGNED OUT in Activity.
    • housecarl: in steward.yaml: Housecarl's URL or local socket, and a
      token that needs only sets:write for the portal's sets.
  • A roadmap in docs/design.md: other ways
    through a portal (passwords, vouchers, accounts) and IPv6 on portal
    networks.

  Upgrading from 0.2

  • The database gets a new version (8), applied when stewardd starts; a
    0.2 stewardd can't open it afterwards, so take a backup first (sudo stewardd backup). No subnet has a portal until you turn one on.
  • The portal needs Housecarl with its renewal fix (adding an entry that
    is in a dynamic set already must give it the new timeout).

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