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Hello! Today we're starting AirVPN tenth birthday celebrations! From a two servers service located in a single country providing a handful of Mbit/s, the baby has grown up to a wide infrastructure in 22 countries in three continents, providing now 240,000+ Mbit/s to tens of thousands of people around the world. In 2019 and 2020, software development enhancement has paid off: now AirVPN develops on its own an OpenVPN3 forked library which resolves various problems from the main branch and adds new features. The library is used in Hummingbird, a free and open source software for Linux and Mac, known for its speed and compactness, in Eddie Android edition and in a new software which will be announced in June. Hummingbird has been released even for ARM based Linux devices, and runs fine for example in Raspberry PI. Eddie Desktop edition has been extensively rewritten to improve performance, reliability and security. Now anything not related to the user interface is written in C++ and a lot of security hardening has been implemented. Total compatibility with macOS Catalina, Windows 10 and latest Linux distributions has been achieved, and specific packages for various, widespread Linux distributions are available for easier installation. Eddie can act as a GUI for Hummingbird in Linux and Mac, while in Windows, Eddie can also be easily configured to run OpenVPN 2.5 with the wintun driver to achieve remarkable OpenVPN performance boost and put Windows on par with other systems OpenVPN throughput ability. Furthermore, the wintun driver resolves various problems which affected TAP-Windows driver. Development for OpenBSD and FreeBSD has been unfortunately re-planned but we're glad to announce here that it will continue, starting from summer 2020. All AirVPN applications and libraries are free and open source software released under GPLv3. We think that it's somehow surprising that AirVPN not only survived, but even flourished for 10 years, in an increasingly competitive market and increasingly privacy hostile environment. No whistles and bells, no marketing fluff, no fake locations, no advertising on mainstream media, a transparent privacy policy, no trackers on the web site or in mobile applications, no bullshit of any kind in our infrastructure to sell your personal data to any personal data merchant, and above all a clear mission that is the very reason which AirVPN operates for https://airvpn.org/mission , are probably, all together, the factors which allowed such a small "miracle" and maybe make AirVPN unique. Thank you all, you users, customers, members of the community, moderators, developers: the small "miracle" happened because of you, because you saw something in AirVPN. Kind regards and datalove AirVPN Staff

gefeliciteerd 😉 Happy Birthday....🎂

You have earned my loyalty over the years. Congratulations and looking forward to the next 10 😎

It's possible to script this, in case you want to change DNS settings with a click of a button. I posted my script from back in my Windows days somewhere here, but I can't find it anymore, the procedure looks something like this, though:

For Mac OSX users Although this is an old thread, I just had the same problem. Yesterday Eddie was connected while power went out in my house and after power returned, Eddie connected as usual. This morning after computer startup I couldn't connect to the internet without Eddie. This is what I did to get back my regular internet connection: 1. while Eddie was active (connected to a server) I deactivated the network lock and quit Eddie; 2. went to System Preferences - Network - (Wi-Fi) Advanced... - DNS; 3. deleted from the left column (DNS Servers) the two addresses (one is IP4 and the other IP6 address). After deleting those, new IP4 and IP6 addresses appeared, which are the regular ones I get from the service provider. I started up Eddie and activated the network lock again and now everything is fine. I guess power loss/internet connection loss messed something up. Hope this helps someone

Thank you for your hard work team! You're the best! I must admit by using your services I've learnt so much through the years about networking, VPNs, security, privacy and so on. Thanks.

Happy Birthday and here's to the next 10yrs. 👍

Å/å are common in Scandinavian language. According to Google Translate, it is Swedish.

Congrats! Been a happy AirVPN customer since 2014 and have no reason to look elsewhere. Just signed up for three more years with the anniversary promo... Thanks and keep up the great work! ✌️

@HannaForest About countries in the EU, any mandatory data indiscriminate retention framework is illegal according to two different CJEU decisions, so any attempt to enforce it or incrimination for having failed to enforce it can be easily challenged up to the highest court. About UK, the legal framework does not seem to enforce mandatory data retention to datacenters, but as soon as UK will get out of the EU we will re-check the situation with the help of lawyers. About France, the difference is that data retention seems mandatory for "hosting providers" (sic), so datacenters might start logging metadata without our knowledge. We will study again and re-consider in the next months anyway. Kind regards