Eddie Desktop edition 2.26.2 released

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Eddie 2.26.2 Desktop Edition released

Hello!
 

We're very glad to inform you that a new stable release of Eddie is now available for Linux (various ARM based architectures included, making it compatible with several Raspberry Pi systems), macOS, Windows.

Special thanks to all the beta testers, whose invaluable contributions and suggestions in the last months have helped developers fix several bugs and improve the overall stability of the software.

Eddie is a free and open source (GPLv3) OpenVPN GUI and CLI by AirVPN with many additional features such as:

• traffic leaks prevention via packet filtering rules
• DNS handling
• optional connections over Tor or a generic proxy
• customizable events
• traffic splitting on a destination IP address or host name basis
• complete and swift integration with AirVPN infrastructure with OpenVPN and WireGuard
• white and black lists of VPN servers
• ability to support IPv4, IPv6 and IPv6 over IPv4
• support to Linux systems based on systemd and SysV-style init

This version includes bug fixes and security improvements as well as OpenVPN, WireGuard and libraries updates.
A new Eddie UI is in the works. We know we’ve been promising that for a long time, but development is well along. Stay tuned.

 

Operating and architectural notes

Eddie GUI and CLI run with normal user privileges, while a "backend" binary, which communicates to the user interface with authentication, gains root/administrator privileges, with important security safeguards in place featured in this new version:

• strict parsing is enforced before passing a profile to OpenVPN in order to block insecure OpenVPN directives
• fix for CVE-2025-14979
• backend hardened authentication of client commands
• hardened security for sensitive operations
• client memory usage protection through limitation of client helper replies
• general cleanup

Furthermore:

• external system binaries which need superuser privileges (examples: openvpn, iptables, hummingbird) will not be launched if they do not belong to a superuser.
• Eddie events are not run with superuser privileges: instead of trusting blindly user's responsibility and care when dealing with events, the user is required to explicitly operate to run something with high privileges, if strictly necessary

Please consult the changelog for a more detailed and exhaustive list.

Backend binary is written in C++ on all systems (Windows included), making the whole application faster.

Settings, certificates and keys of your account stored on your mass storage can optionally be encrypted on all systems either with a Master Password or in a system key-chain if available.

Download Eddie 2.26.2

Eddie 2.26.2 can be downloaded here:
https://airvpn.org/linux - Linux version (several architectures and various distribution specific packages for easier installation)
https://airvpn.org/macos - Mac version
https://airvpn.org/windows - Windows version

Eddie is free and open source software released under GPLv3. Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie

Complete changelog can be found here.

Kind regards & datalove
AirVPN Staff