alt Hacker NewsNot sure if its a "significant" u-turn, when its a relatively new feature. Its only been out for a few months, and seems to be getting rolled back because it was breaking things.
Its annoying that a security benefit is being turned off, but it can be turned back on if you are confident it will not break your setup.
> Not sure if its a "significant" u-turn
I would say it is because they made a big marketing blog post about it at the time[1] (August 2025). So clearly they considered it a significant new feature.
The blog post ended with the words "If we don’t spot any major regressions with 1.86, the next stable release will likely turn on state encryption by default for all new nodes". It was then enabled by default 1.90.2 onwards (October 2025).
That is why I would consider it a significant u-turn.
[1]https://tailscale.com/blog/encrypting-data-at-rest