Happy new year! 🎆

We start 2026 with a big bang! Tons of improvements and new features! This release introduces powerful additions such as Single Sign-On (SSO), webhook support, a Windows remote Event Log viewer, a fully customizable theme manager, and no joke, a fully functional Relay Server. The Relay Server allows you to securely tunnel to any machine from your admin machine running the NetLock RMM agent, no port forwaring, no vpn!

And that’s just the beginning. Be sure to check out the full changelog below to discover many more new features, enhancements, and quality-of-life improvements included in this release.

Important

Some features need to be configured before you can use them. We plan on releasing new documentation for new features & videos in the upcoming weeks. If you have a paid membership, please feel free to get in contact with us and we will assist you with setting up features like the new Relay Server!

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Changelog

Authentication

• Extended SSO support:
• Keycloak
• Entra ID
• Auth0
• Okta

Webhook

Webhook support has been added including custom variables to meet your requirements.

See: https://docs.netlockrmm.com/en/web-console/notifications

Remote

Relay Server

Create a secure tunnel from your admin machine to a target device which has the NetLock RMM agent installed. Connections are managed within the web console. To access the secure tunnel the local NetLock RMM Proxy Application is being used, which allows you to connect to the remote machine with any tool you like. Examples are RDP, SSH, Database Tools & Webbrowser.

The relay app is available for the following platforms:

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
  

Remote Screen Control

• Automatic detection of newly logged-in user sessions in unattended mode. Specially after logging in from the windows login screen
• No restart required after agent installation to use remote screen control
• Significantly improved unattended access stability
• No user re-login required to use the tray icon
• Review recorded sessions in the web console under settings

Remote shell

• Bulk execution support
• Configurable timeout

Windows Event log viewer

• View and browse any eventlog
• View statistics about the eventlogs

Other

• Real-time device connectivity status when remote features are enabled, indicated by a pulse animation
• Fallback: last device check-in within the past 30 minutes
• Active remote connections are additionally indicated by a pulsing platform icon
• Visual feedback indicating:
  • Whether a policy is active or inactive
  • Whether a required feature is disabled in the policy
  • Device values in the device overview are updated automatically in the background
    • Every 30 seconds, including remote status

Installation & Deployment

• Devices can now be moved across tenants
• Also supported as a bulk action
• Automatic device authorization until a specific date based on the package configuration
• After creating an installer, an installation script can now be downloaded
• Based on the selected architecture
• You can now generate server config replacement scripts for each platform
• Brand-new NetLock RMM server instance installer in the Members Portal
• Guides users through the Netlock installation process

UI / UX & Design

• New login design
• New overall UI design with improved feedback
• Optimized dark mode
• Metric graphs improved for better visual readability
• Search bar added to filter tenants
• Dashboard events now reload automatically in the background every minute
• Fonts are no longer loaded from the internet
• All fonts are now fully embedded

Branding & Settings

• Configurable IP whitelist for:
  • Web console
  • Agent backend
• Web console title can now be customized via settings
• Web console logo can now be customized via settings
• Full theme customization:
• All theme colors can be adjusted using a built-in editor

Policies, Scripts, Jobs & Automation

• Jobs:
  • Configurable timeout support
  • Fixed execution scheduler issues
• Scripts:
• Configurable default timeout
  • Automatically loaded in the remote shell when selecting a script
• Scripts, sensors, policies, and jobs can now be duplicated
• Permissions can now be exported and imported

Sensors & Notifications

• New sensor options:
• Send sensor notification only once until the issue is resolved
• Send notification when the issue is resolved

Microsoft Defender Antivirus

• Fixed notification filtering
• Fixed job execution scheduler issues

System & Administration

• Improved explanations in:
• System → Updates
• System → Database (cleanup behavior, processes, etc.)
• Execute custom mysql commands

Best regards,

Nico Mak