We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.
The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.23. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale ./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use ofbuild_dist.sh
, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.
We require Developer Certificate of
OriginSigned-off-by
lines in commits.
See git log
for our commit message style. It's basically the same as
Go's style.
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