Eddie Desktop Edition 2.26 beta released

[Staff 10568]

Hello!

We are glad to announce that Eddie 2.26.0 beta has been released and is now available for public testing.

This release is mostly about maintenance, security fixes, and compatibility work.
It includes several security hardening changes, updates to OpenVPN 2.7.3 and WireGuard for Windows 1.0, improved OpenVPN driver handling on Windows, and a general cleanup of old or unused code paths.

To test it:

• Go to the download page for your operating system.
• Click “Switch to EXPERIMENTAL”.
• Download and install Eddie 2.26.0 beta.

Eddie 2.26.0 beta is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

We are also continuing the larger work of modernizing Eddie Desktop, also with a new modern UI.
We know that many requested features are still waiting, including dark mode, split tunneling, Amnezia support, and more.
They are not forgotten. For this release, the focus was on fixes and updates that needed to reach users first.
We expect this beta to move to stable soon.

Thank you for testing, and as always for your support.

Main changelog:
 

Version 2.26.0 (Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:29:16 +0000)

• [change] [all] Updated the app to .NET 10
• [change] [all] Updated the legacy interface to .NET Framework 4.8.1
• [change] [windows] Removed Windows 7 support
• [fix] [all] Cleaned WireGuard configuration generation by removing unsupported entries
• [change] [windows] Improved OpenVPN driver setup and adapter management on Windows
• [change] [windows] Removed outdated Windows driver options
• [change] [windows] Removed the old Windows Firewall Network Lock mode and migrated existing profiles.
• [change] [linux/macos/bsd] Removed unused filesystem protection handling from the elevated helper.
• [change] [all] Restricted elevated helper tool discovery to trusted application folders.
• [change] [all] Added limits to elevated helper replies to protect client memory use.
• [change] [all] Removed the Tor control cookie path option
• [fix] [all] Various security hardening fixes
• [fix] [windows] Fixed Windows elevated launches with long command lines
• [change] [windows] Improved Windows elevated argument handling to prevent extra arguments from being injected into helper tools
• [fix] [windows] Fixed Windows OpenVPN routing with TAP adapters
• [change] [windows] Updated WireGuard for Windows to version 1.0
• [change] [all] Updated OpenVPN to 2.7.3
• [fix] [linux] Fixed Linux AppImage cleanup. Credits GitHub #147 and #152. Thanks to ThienBienBlue.
• [fix] [linux] Fixed Network Lock detection on clean systems where optional nftables or iptables tools are not installed.
• [change] [all] Removed custom OpenVPN and Hummingbird executable path options.
• [change] [linux] Removed the Linux dependency on the system ICU library
• [change] [all] Misc fixes and general cleanup

Kind regards & datalove
AirVPN Staff

[MarkDubya 4]

This version will not connect on Arch Linux and tries multiple times exceeding the account connection limit. There is a notification "Exception: Executable 'service' not found" . I reverted to 2.25.1 for now.

Using either the Arch package from the Eddie website or the eddie-ui-git AUR package is the same.

Edited ... by MarkDubya

[jx35552zza 5]

3 hours ago, MarkDubya said:

This version will not connect on Arch Linux and tries multiple times exceeding the account connection limit. There is a notification "Exception: Executable 'service' not found" . I reverted to 2.25.1 for now.

Using either the Arch package from the Eddie website or the eddie-ui-git AUR package is the same.

I'm running into the same issue and exception on Arch Linux. Downgrading Eddie back fixed it for me as well.
I opened a support ticket yesterday, and the staff mentioned they've passed the ticket along to the Eddie developer.

[Overkill 6]

Hi guys.

I'm going to ask since I haven't heard anything about it in the changelog, do you plan to update Eddie to fully support macOS Silicon?
I keep getting the warning in the image attached, I believe Apple will behave as usual and kinda kill whatever is not running on Silicon by the next OS release at the end of this year.

[harold.lewis 25]

Problems here too
as for previous version it does not keep "Don't ask elevation every run"

the Gui is not able to connect and keep retrying... 

[Staff 10568]

Version 2.26.1 (Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:30:39 +0000)

• [fix] [linux] Fix nftables netlock ipv4 mangle OUTPUT chain priority typo
• [change] [linux] Store network lock rule backups in root-only state directory
• [fix] [all] Fix TOCTOU race
• [fix] [linux] Sanitize VPN DNS addresses written to /etc/resolv.conf
• [change] [all] Misc fixes and general cleanup
• [fix] [linux] Fixed connection on Arch (no SysV service command)
• [change] [all] Improved security of how the VPN configuration is handled by the privileged helper
• [fix] [all] Block OpenVPN directives that write files as root

[Staff 10568]

On 7/2/2026 at 7:47 PM, Overkill said:

Hi guys.

I'm going to ask since I haven't heard anything about it in the changelog, do you plan to update Eddie to fully support macOS Silicon?
I keep getting the warning in the image attached, I believe Apple will behave as usual and kinda kill whatever is not running on Silicon by the next OS release at the end of this year.

 

For now, we ask you to ignore that message.

It is caused by the fact that the current macOS UI is written in Xamarin, which does not support arm64 compilation.

One of our goals is to release a new modern UI, natively compiled for arm64, before this restriction becomes a problem.

[Clodo 178]

On 7/3/2026 at 8:17 AM, harold.lewis said:

Problems here too
as for previous version it does not keep "Don't ask elevation every run"

the Gui is not able to connect and keep retrying... 

Please test the latest version, and open a ticket. Please report macOS version, package (zip? dmg?), and a logs > lifebelt report link (with the upload report feature).
Thanks.

[harold.lewis 25]

1 hour ago, Clodo said:

Please test the latest version.
Thanks.

Eddie-ui 2.26.1 works well now here.
thanks