v0.17.0 - Material 3 UI redesign, SOCKS5 performance boost

[pymq]

What's Changed

This release ships a Material 3 overhaul of the UI, major SOCKS5 proxy performance improvements, and password protection for the web UI.

Notable changes:

• Material 3 overhaul. The web UI and Android app have been reworked on Material 3 — updated layout, refreshed components, cleaner typography. See the screenshots in the README.
• SOCKS5 performance. Per-connection memory dropped from 2–4 MiB to 128 KiB, and connection time-to-first-byte halved (removed an unnecessary auth round-trip).
• HTTP basic auth for the web UI and API — you can now lock the admin interface behind a username/password.
• Built-in monitoring. Prometheus metrics for libp2p internals and awl-specific counters on the /metrics endpoint. A prepackaged Docker Compose in monitoring/ ships Grafana dashboards, Prometheus, and Pyroscope for continuous profiling — see monitoring/README.md.
• Reproducible Android builds in CI.
• Edit config from the tray. New awl-tray submenu to open config_awl.json as raw text.
• Updated to Go 1.26 with refreshed dependencies; CI now pins Go, Flutter, NDK and gomobile versions for consistent builds.

Changelog:

• metrics: add prometheus-based libp2p and awl-specific metrics by @pymq in metrics: add prometheus-based libp2p and awl-specific metrics #217
• monitoring: add continuous profiling Pyroscope to docker compose by @pymq in monitoring: add continuous profiling Pyroscope to docker compose #218
• api: add http basic auth support by @pymq in api: add http basic auth support #219
• Improve test coverage by @pymq in Improve test coverage #220
• cmd/awl-tray: add submenu to edit config file in raw text by @pymq in cmd/awl-tray: add submenu to edit config file in raw text #221
• socks5: halve connection TTFB latency by removing unnecessary auth round-trip by @pymq in socks5: halve connection TTFB latency by removing unnecessary auth round-trip #222
• api: update swagger by @pymq in api: update swagger #223
• all: update to Go 1.26, update dependencies by @pymq in all: update to Go 1.26, update dependencies #225
• socks5: update our library fork to reduce memory usage from 2-4 MiB to 128 KiB for each connection by @pymq in socks5: update our library fork to reduce memory usage from 2-4 MiB to 128 KiB for each connection #227
• app: run integration tests on CI linux, add goleak by @pymq in app: run integration tests on CI linux, add goleak #228
• build: use modern ndk instead of ndk-bundle, pin gomobile version for Android, pin Go and Flutter in CI by @pymq in build: use modern ndk instead of ndk-bundle, pin gomobile version for Android, pin Go and Flutter in CI #229
• ci: add reproducible builds for Android by @pymq in ci: add reproducible builds for Android #230
• docs: update README.md, screenshots by @pymq in docs: update README.md, screenshots #231

Full Changelog: v0.16.0...v0.17.0
Milestone: v0.17.0

Installation

For instructions on how to install anywherelan see readme.

Android

awl-android-v0.17.0.apk

Desktop version (awl-tray)

Windows binary builds

awl-tray-windows-386-v0.17.0.zip
awl-tray-windows-amd64-v0.17.0.zip

Windows 7 binary builds

awl-tray-windows7-386-v0.17.0.zip
awl-tray-windows7-amd64-v0.17.0.zip

macOS binary builds

awl-tray-macos-amd64-v0.17.0.zip
awl-tray-macos-arm64-v0.17.0.zip

Linux binary builds

awl-tray-linux-386-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-tray-linux-amd64-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-tray-linux-arm-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-tray-linux-arm64-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-tray-linux-mips-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-tray-linux-mipsle-v0.17.0.tar.gz

Server version (awl)

Linux binary builds

awl-linux-386-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-linux-amd64-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-linux-arm-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-linux-arm64-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-linux-mips-v0.17.0.tar.gz
awl-linux-mipsle-v0.17.0.tar.gz

Windows binary builds

awl-windows-386-v0.17.0.zip
awl-windows-amd64-v0.17.0.zip

Windows 7 binary builds

awl-windows7-386-v0.17.0.zip
awl-windows7-amd64-v0.17.0.zip

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