tailscale / tailcat
like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
- Stars
- 8,845 stars
- Forks
- 407 forks
- Language
- Go
- License
- BSD-3-CLAUSE
- Created
- Oct 29, 2024
- Last push
- Nov 5, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 12, 2026
Why these Tags: an agent read the README and quoted it
- Tunnel from the readme:
Or you can serve a local TCP port, forwarded to localhost:
- Peer-to-peer from the readme:
magicsock performs NAT traversal to upgrade to a direct peer-to-peer UDP connection when possible (usually!).
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Admitted to the Repository Index on Nov 10, 2026: 8,774 stars on 2026-11-10.
Star History
93 days recorded, Aug 11, 2026 – Nov 11, 2026 (UTC). Net change +8,893 stars.
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It gained stars on 80 of the 93 days recorded since Aug 11, 2026.
Its largest 7 days were Aug 26, 2026 to Sep 1, 2026: 5,652 stars.
In the 30 days to Nov 11, 2026 it got 563 stars, 60% fewer than in the 30 days before.
- Created on the Repository Host
- Reached 500 stars, 666 days after it was created
- +921 stars in one day
- Reached 1,000 stars, 667 days after it was created
- Largest star day recorded: +1,177 stars
- +823 stars in one day
- Release v0.3.0
- Reached 5,000 stars, 671 days after it was created
- Release v0.4.0
- Release v0.5.0
- Release v0.6.0
- Release v0.7.0
- Latest push
- Entered the Repository Index: 8,774 stars on 2026-11-10
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Forks and pushes
From 2 Observations, Nov 11, 2026 – Nov 12, 2026. Forks +3. AwesomeRepos saw a new push on 0 of 1 days.
- Nov 12, 2026: no new push
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Maintenance
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Yes: A push in the last 90 days
Last push on 2026-11-05, 7 days ago. Source
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Releases
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Newest release v0.7.0 on 2026-09-20, 53 days ago. 7 releases in the last 365 days. Source
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The newest release tag is v0.7.0. Source
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- perkeep/perkeep 7.3K
Go: github.com/tailscale/tailcat
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Observations
Latest Observation, Nov 12, 2026: 8,845 stars, 407 forks, last push Nov 5, 2026, not archived. One of 2 Observations since Nov 11, 2026.