Road to OpenVPN 2.6 and DCO

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On 6/3/2026 at 6:35 AM, Staff said:

Hello!

Important update: OpenVPN 2.7 and DCO deployment entered its final stage. Check the update on this thread first message. Now you can start using OpenVPN + DCO on a wide portion of AirVPN infrastructure and very soon on all of it.

Kind regards & datalove
 

This is great news. I'm already using it on a device, and I must say it feels more stable than WG, even with the servers on high load. Great great news. Thanks.

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the major benefit being that ChaCha20-Poly1305 vs AES-256-GCM or AES-128-GCM on proper AES-NI supporting x86 machines can mean 2-3x the performance for the latter. 

Wireguard only supporting the former means either hardware can't keep up or we get into a good chunk of wasted cpu cycles for nothing.  

i'll wait until the full upgrade happens before switching over but I am thankful that AirVPN are going to number the providers who are supporting this finally. Thank you AirVPN.