A new generation of Tailscale access controls
created: May 29, 2025, 6:23 p.m. | updated: June 2, 2025, 12:52 p.m.
Today, we’re announcing the general availability of grants, Tailscale’s next generation of access controls that combine network and application capabilities into a single syntax.
Grants go beyond simplifying the ACL syntax, they also add new tools that you can use for more powerful access controls.
The magic of application capabilities is that you can easily define your own capabilities to use in your apps.
Read more about viaIf you’re an existing Tailscale user, you probably have lots of access controls written in our older ACL syntax.
You only need to rewrite your existing ACL policies if you want to take advantage of the newer features we add to the grants syntax.
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