We are excited to announce the first production release of Tunnex, a lightweight, visual SSH tunnel and local port forwarding manager built for Windows using Tauri v2, Rust, and React 19.
✨ Key Features & Highlights
⚡ Async SSH Engine (direct-tcpip): High-performance multi-threaded port forwarding powered by tokioand russh.
🔐 Hardware-grade Security (DPAPI): Passwords and private key passphrases are encrypted and stored in the
Windows Credential Manager (keyring under tunnex service). Secrets are never written in plaintext.ç🌐 One-Click Browser Launch: Click any local endpoint (127.0.0.1:<port>) or the browser button to open remote web dashboards (Adminer, PgAdmin, Redis UI, etc.) in your default browser.
🖥️ Native Windows PowerShell Integration: Launch detached PowerShell, PowerShell Core 7 (pwsh), or Windows Terminal (wt.exe) pre-configured with active SSH sessions or local port probes.
📊 Real-time Telemetry & Sparklines: Monitor live inbound/outbound throughput, active connection counters, and session uptime with live SVG sparkline charts.
📌 System Tray Context Menu: Minimize to tray with active background tunnels. Manage global connections directly from the system tray.