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Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new Eddie Air client version has been released: 2.24 beta. It is ready for public beta testing. How to test our experimental release: Go to download page of your OS Click the button Switch to EXPERIMENTAL Download and install This is a new version of Eddie Desktop (Windows / Linux / MacOS). We know there is still 2.21.8 as stable, and 2.22.x and 2.23.x series never reached the stable version. We hope that this version 2.24.x will be tested and reach a stable release. Internally (in terms of development and code) it represents a significant step forward for us: the CLI editions are compiled with dotnet 7, without Mono, Xamarin and any dependency on NetFramework (Windows) or Mono (Linux, MacOS). All CLI projects can be opened in Visual Studio Code and debugged on any OS (macOS, Linux, Windows) without the need to use Xamarin, Visual Studio or Visual Studio for Mac. A new UI is in the works that will finally remove the dependency on Mono and Xamarin, but we don't have a release date to announce yet. The MacOS CLI is new (previously there was only the UI, or the UI with "-cli"), and it's also native for arm64. Overall, there has been a significant effort to clean up and modernise the code, and to prepare our build/deploy scripts for the new UI as well. We understand that there are still tickets or posts that we haven't responded to yet, but we preferred to complete this step first. Main changelog: [new] WireGuard is now the default communication protocol [new] All CLI editions can be compiled and debugged with VSCode and .NET7 [new] [macOS] CLI-only edition, built with .NET7, without Xamarin [new] New commandline only option "elevated.method" [change] OpenVPN 2.6.9 [change] [linux] CLI edition, built with .NET7, without Mono [change] [linux] .deb and .rpm, removed Mono dependency [change] [linux] .deb package tries to initialize elevated service at install/uninstall, .rpm package still missing this feature. [change] [windows] CLI edition, built with .NET7 [change] [all] Better management of SIGTERM signal [change] [all] Don't check if app dir is writable for portable-mode, now managed by presence of "portable.txt". [bugfix] [linux] terminal issue with sudo elevation [deprecation] [all] -cli mode for UI. Use CLI edition directly, now available in all supported platform. [deprecation] [windows] Vista builds [deprecation] [windows] Windows Firewall Network Lock mode [deprecation] [linux] x86 builds [deprecation] [linux] Portable Mono builds

Exactly. A business migration to an "offshore, sovereign nation" might seem like the best solution here, but it's just a hammer putting an angle to the nail. Sure, (Corporation, et al) Taxes might be lower elsewhere, but the proposed unregulated, dynamic blacklist system being implemented in Italy, applies globally to AirVPN's and all Italian resident-customers. If AirVPN were to still be a registered Italian business, and somehow implement technological bypasses of the blacklist to reallow Italian resident-customers, then even a layman could see an argument for detrimental culpability subject to their own business registation laws, if they wish to continue operating out of Italian jurisdiction. I'm certain that the Owners, Staff, Lawyers of AirVPN, being at least of Italian business registration since inception, are taking this legislative battle to heart. Many others will too: I'd bet there'll be an EU review into the frameworks implementation sooner rather than later, once it's filtering impact and resonance are actualised. @Staff Will do whatever they feel is most legal, and best feasible. But there's one reason why we're customers: A "VPN operated by activists in defense of net neutrality, privacy and against censorship." That time is now.

My hardware setup is quite decent. Intel® Core i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz Are you sure about that? It's not the setup or us, its' your hardware. https://ark.intel.com/products/43546/Intel-Core-i5-650-Processor-4M-Cache-3_20-GHz Launch date: Q1 2010 This is not exactly decent. By any means an 8 year old CPU is usable, but cannot be expected to achieve high speeds with OpenVPN AES-256. We don't exactly have any benchmarks from this CPU but a 30-40Mbit mark is my high bet. Note when you build a high end dedicated box for OpenVPN/other tasks, you have to consider it's max throughput before - CPU and RAM from the past 5 years should cost almost the same and give about twice better performance. Just as you can't expect running some games on such machine, or running new apps on a phone from 8 years ago, this is almost the same. Your CPU is the Galaxy 1st gen / iPhone 3G of today standards.