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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entries [change] [windows] Improved OpenVPN driver setup and adapter management on Windows [change] [windows] Removed outdated Windows driver options [change] [windows] Removed the old Windows Firewall Network Lock mode and migrated existing profiles.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

Version 2.26.2 (Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:19:55 +0000) [fix] [linux] Fix elevated startup on distros without systemctl (e.g. Devuan/sysvinit) [fix] [all] Emit disable-dco in generated OpenVPN config when startup options are incompatible with data channel offload [fix] [windows] Harden elevated named pipe against pipe-name squatting (FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE, single instance) [change] [all] Misc fixes and general cleanup

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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.

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

@Tech Jedi Alex Hello! Just to point out that age verification should have nothing to do with identity check. Various countries, the European Commission and some Italian bodies are studying methods of age verification that don't force the citizen to show his/her ID card at any step, and surely not to private entities they don't even know. If the UK wants to implement age verification through identity verification we don't know, but it would be a giant mistake that would allow potentially shady entities to steal and build highly reliable ID databases with huge monetary value on the black market. The Discord Hack catastrophe is a useful reminder https://www.404media.co/the-discord-hack-is-every-users-worst-nightmare/ Then of course you can debate ad nauseam about whether it is right or wrong that a person younger than 21, 18 or 16 should be forbidden to connect to a virtual private network, Tor, proxy, etc. For the readers, our position is close to EFF position, see here: https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification We were with EDRi and EFF as usual, how can you not know?! Check our mission and endorsement page. The same must be said of some other VPNs to be honest. Kind regards