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Eddie 2.21.6 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), Mac, Windows. Special thanks to all the beta testers, whose invaluable contributions and suggestions in the last 9 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 What's new in Eddie 2.21.6 WireGuard support including thorough and swift integration with AirVPN enhanced wintun support in Windows, resolving TAP driver adapter issues and boosting performance, and now set by default as a replacement of TAP driver (which remains optionally available) updated Hummingbird 1.2.0 support in Linux and macOS for increased performance (up to 120% boost in macOS i7 and M1 systems when compared against OpenVPN 2) new ping engine updated Portable and AppImage bundles for improved Linux distributions compatibility constant monitoring of resolv.conf in Linux to mitigate and resolve DNS interference refined network interface management and driver detection in Windows bootstrap servers IPv6 address support unquoted service fix aimed at security hardening in Windows updates of all underlying linked libraries as well as dynamic link against some libraries providing enhanced robustness resolution of memory leaks in Windows starting to occur after numerous usage hours several bug fixes 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: strict parsing is enforced before passing a profile to OpenVPN in order to block insecure OpenVPN directives 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 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 2.21.6 Eddie 2.21.6 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

Try installing it. It contains iptables-legacy, too. $ pacman -Fy /usr/bin/iptables-legacy […] usr/bin/iptables-legacy ist in core/iptables 1:1.8.7-1 enthalten usr/bin/iptables-legacy ist in core/iptables-nft 1:1.8.7-1 enthalten Preferences > Protocols > Deselect Automatic > Select Wireguard in the list.

Working just fine, so far, on MacOS Mojave. Great work staff!!

You do need the systray icon, but XFCE is another desktop environment than K(Ubuntu) so you need to do following. Close EDDIE. Open a terminal In that terminal type: eddie-ui Please copy what the terminal window is saying. You really need the systray icon to make EDDIE hidden, minimazing EDDIE on Linux causes strange results, while hiding with the systray icon works fine. K(Ubuntu) are KDE or GNOME desktops, very different. Please provide running 'eddie-ui' from a terminal and copy paste it, make sure to hide sensitive personal info. You probably need an entire different library. Previous versions of EDDIE on Manjaro for example needed nftables to manually be installed e.g. but that is no longer so. But you require the systray icon. Linux is not like windows, Linux is not a one size fits all, wheter windows is a one size fits all.

For those on (K)Ubuntu 22.04 the following needs to be done to make the systray icon work. Now depending on which package manager one has it is necessary to install libappindicator.so.1 from libappindicator If on (K)Ubuntu it is Muon package manager where you can find and install libappindicator, mark it for install and apply. I have the system tray icon working. It is a GTK library i suppose. Debian and Manjaro have another package manager I think. There is no difference in checksum of the BETA or the final release, however Linux still is very much more difficult to make everything work. If you minimize the EDDIE window, it will eventually do strange things, if however you hide the window with the systray icon ( if you have it working) it works fine. So no need to download the latest stable for Linux, it has the same hash code.

According to changelog it was temporarily removed since version 2.21.5

Yeah, WireGuard! The best VPN just keeps getting better. No major issues updating from 2.20.0, but I noticed Eddie's tray icon is missing. Is there any way to get it back? Someone in the 2.21 beta thread posted a log showing they were missing "libappindicator.so.1", but I don't have any errors when starting Eddie. I have libappindicator-gtk2 and libappindicator-gtk3 already installed. I'm running Manjaro XFCE edition.

Can you close EDDIE and reboot, and do following after logging in again. Open a terminal and execute: ubuntu@EDDIE:~$ eddie-ui Gtk not found (missing LD_LIBRARY_PATH to libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0?), using built-in colorscheme . 2022.05.01 12:32:01 - Eddie version: 2.21.5beta / linux_x64, System: Linux, Name: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Version: 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish), Mono/.Net: 6.8.0.105 (Debian 6.8.0.105+dfsg-3.2 W ed Jun 30 05:34:49 UTC 2021); Framework: v4.0.30319 . 2022.05.01 12:32:01 - Command line arguments (2): path.resources="/usr/share/eddie-ui" path.exec="/usr/bin/eddie-ui" . 2022.05.01 12:32:02 - Reading options from /home/ubuntu/.config/eddie/default.profile . 2022.05.01 12:32:03 - OpenVPN - Version: 2.5.5 - OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022, LZO 2.10 (/usr/sbin/openvpn) . 2022.05.01 12:32:03 - SSH - Version: OpenSSH_8.9p1 Ubuntu-3, OpenSSL 3.0.2 15 Mar 2022 (/usr/bin/ssh) . 2022.05.01 12:32:03 - SSL - Version: Initializing (/usr/bin/stunnel4) . 2022.05.01 12:32:03 - curl - Version: 7.81.0 (/usr/bin/curl) /usr/lib/eddie-ui/eddie-tray: error while loading shared libraries: libappindicator.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I 2022.05.01 12:32:07 - Ready . 2022.05.01 12:32:08 - Collect information about AirVPN completed . 2022.05.01 12:32:29 - Shutdown in progress . 2022.05.01 12:32:29 - Shutdown complete As you can see /usr/lib/eddie-ui/eddie-tray: error while loading shared libraries: libappindicator.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Now depending on which package manager one has it is necessary to install libappindicator.so.1 from libappindicator If on (K)Ubuntu it is Muon package manager where you can find and install libappindicator, mark it for install and apply. I have the system tray icon working. It is a GTK library i suppose.

I remember this fix, it's for a specific version change only, something along the lines of 2.17 or 2.18 to 2.20. You needed to delete a certain registry key related to the elevation helper for Eddie to work. Where I didn't see a connection is that Eddie didn't show for you. For others it always showed an error about not being able to raise privileges. But you fixed it yourself, very good. Enjoy