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Hello! We reluctantly have to announce gloomy news to you all: Spooky Halloween Deals are now available in AirVPN... Save up to 74% on AirVPN longer plans (*) (*) When compared to 1 month plan price Deal will expire on 2026-11-03 UTC Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/plans If you're already our customer and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period with this un-boo-lievable deal, any additional plan will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. Every plan gives you all the features that made AirVPN a nightmare for snoopers and a scary service for competitors. Just check this frighteningly long list of terrific features if you dare: a clear mission without compromises https://airvpn.org/mission exclusive and comfortable remote inbound port forwarding system flexible, opt-in block lists against malware and other hostile entities. Pick predefined lists, add exceptions or additional blocks, define your own lists, or just use our totally neutral DNS by default improved API functions to let you control and configure VPN features and account settings WireGuard integration AmneziaWG support in Eddie Android edition, with traffic mimicry of real websites (QUIC) to defeat DPI-based VPN blocking. This year our traffic wears a costume too: with AmneziaWG on Eddie Android, your connection goes trick-or-treating dressed up as an ordinary website, and DPI won't recognise who's behind the mask. Security-hardened Eddie Desktop edition Strong infrastructure growth: about 25% more total capacity in one year. Our servers grew by a ghastly 25% this year: more bandwidth to haunt the Internet at full speed. IPv6 support, including IPv6 over IPv4 and IPv4 over IPv6 refined load balancing to squeeze every last bit per second from VPN servers free and open source software for Android, Linux, Mac and Windows offering advanced features easy "Configuration Generator" web interface for access through third party software guaranteed minimum bandwidth allocation GDPR compliance and very high privacy protection standards no log and/or inspection of clients' traffic effective traffic leaks prevention by AirVPN software Tor support via AirVPN software on Linux, Mac and Windows various cryptocurrencies accepted without any intermediary no obligation to use our free and open source software to enter AirVPN infrastructure. Interoperability is an AirVPN priority. perfectly clear and easy to read Privacy Notice and Terms https://airvpn.org/privacy No tricks, only treats! We witch you a spooktacular Halloween AirVPN Staff

Just switched from Proton, thank you!

Halloween renewal - Grazie, Eduardo, from New World.

Hey there, i've been recently to hamburg and talked to some guys who are working on a project called "Freifunk" [1] [2] in hamburg. They have around 400 Nodes, serving around 600 Clients at the moment, running and providing censorship free internet without any kind of limitation. The free access to the internet is not the main goal, but a feature. The "main goals of freifunk are to build a network that is decentralized, owned by those who run it and to support local communications". They are always looking for reliable vpn server to keep the community project running and the risk of being sued low. The community is running under the "Pico Peering Agreement v1.0" [3]. Maybe it´s something you want to support. [4] [1] freifunk.hamburg.net [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freifunk [3] http://www.ohrensessel.net/ffhh/total [3] http://www.picopeer.net/PPA-en.html [4] https://hamburg.freifunk.net/kontakt

Hi all, I built Wave VPN, an open-source (GPL-3.0) WireGuard client for AirVPN on Android and Linux. Sign in with your AirVPN account, pick a server, and connect. AirVPN does not endorse this independent project. Download: vpn.vwave.me. On Android, add my F-Droid repository to get automatic updates. Version 0.1.1 is an early release. Anyone can use it, but I have not tested it on every device and setup yet. Disclosure: AI coding agents (Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Sol) wrote most of the code, tests, and documentation under my direction. The source code and every test report, including failures, are public. Features Pick the lowest-latency server or search the full list, with ping, load, and saved favorites. Android supports split tunneling and Always-on VPN. On Linux, AirVPN verifies that your IPv4, IPv6, and DNS traffic go through the tunnel. Linux includes a Network Lock firewall that stays active until you turn it off, a recovery button, and an Eddie account importer. The app contains no analytics or telemetry. It talks only to AirVPN. The client supports WireGuard only. Sign-in details. Sign in with your AirVPN username and password. The app uses the same encrypted protocol as Eddie, so you do not need to generate an API key. Your device encrypts your credentials using Android Keystore or your Linux desktop keyring, and sends them only to AirVPN. Comparison with Eddie Eddie handles many tasks, and Wave relies on Eddie's published protocol implementation. Wave takes a different approach: The interface uses Jetpack Compose on Android and Rust on Linux, centered on a single Connect control. The settings include only basic WireGuard options and sensible defaults. On Linux, the app runs as an unprivileged user while a dedicated helper executes a fixed list of network commands. The firewall rules stay active if the main process exits unexpectedly. Every test report is public, including runs that failed. The Linux version can import your saved Eddie account. Eddie supports OpenVPN, Windows, macOS, and advanced routing options. If you need those options, use Eddie. Known issue Android reminder: Android can leak DNS during VPN reconnects or app crashes, even with Always-on VPN and blocking enabled, as documented by Mullvad. I also observed this in my Samsung tests. Links Android source Linux source Release key: 4140 18C0 BBB8 C0A7 0A80 BF57 0AA3 2CCB 2C0B 3951 (verified on keys.openpgp.org) Bugs and feedback Bug reports: open a GitHub issue on the Android or Linux repository. Include the app version, operating system version, and reproduction steps. General questions: post in this thread. Security disclosures: email vesselwave@protonmail.com. Do not post passwords, private keys, or WireGuard configuration files. I maintain this project in my spare time and respond as schedule permits. Thanks for trying it! ♡

Oooh almost forgot it. Thanks, just got my 3 year renewal. 👻 I'm regularly checking prices for a year now, as far as I can tell Halloween sale is the best, you should get it now, otherwise you have to wait a year. Easter or birthday sale did not have such a big discount iirc.

@voidfactory Thank you, the log you attached is exactly what was needed, and it shows the cause precisely. First, a quick picture of the pieces involved. niri is your Wayland compositor which draws and manages every window on your desktop. Eddie UI (like Discord) is an X11 application, and niri does not talk X11 itself: X11 applications run through xwayland-satellite, a bridge that starts Xwayland, acts as the X11 window manager towards those applications and presents each X11 window to niri as a normal Wayland window. All your X11 applications share that single bridge and its single connection to niri. When you activate Network Lock, Eddie opens a small dialog window. That window declares a minimum height of -5 pixels in its X11 size hints (WM_NORMAL_HINTS: min_size 102x-5). xwayland-satellite passes this value unchanged to the compositor as the Wayland minimum size, and the Wayland protocol (xdg_toplevel.set_min_size) forbids negative values: niri answers with a protocol error, the connection is closed and xwayland-satellite panics in the same second: Since every X11 application goes through that same bridge, all of them lose their display at that moment, which is why Discord goes down too, and eddie-tray then segfaults (the core dump you found) as a consequence. niri itself keeps running and quietly restarts xwayland-satellite, without telling anyone that it has just crashed: no notification, no warning, just a fresh bridge where the old one used to be, in the best tradition of a strict code of silence. The only visible symptom is your X11 applications vanishing all at once, and nobody saw anything. In other words, a single window asking to be at least minus five pixels tall is enough to take down every X11 application on your desktop: quite a lot of power for a negative number. So this is neither a permissions problem nor the Mesa issue we mentioned earlier, which is why updating xwayland-satellite did not help. Two things are wrong here: the negative value in that Eddie dialog, which we will report to the Eddie developers, and xwayland-satellite crashing on it instead of ignoring or clamping it. A regular Xwayland or X11 session tolerates such a hint, which is why the problem appears only under xwayland-satellite. If you like, you can report it to the xwayland-satellite project with the lines above: https://github.com/Supreeeme/xwayland-satellite/issues Until one of the two is fixed, on niri please use one of the options that do not need X at all, both with Network Lock: - Eddie CLI edition (eddie-cli) - AirVPN Suite (Bluetit daemon and Goldcrest client): https://airvpn.org/linux/suite/ About video playback on Viki and WeTV: it is not related to this crash. If it happens only while connected to the VPN, please try a few different servers and let us know. Kind regards

+1 As of this posting, all sub <100 ping servers (Singapore AND Japan) are at 70-90+% capacity. Also, recently, there was the fibre XGS-PON upgrades and multiple undersea cables coming online in Singapore, the typical ISP landline package has increased from 1GBPS to 10GBPS, and mobile capacity has increased significantly as well. (60GB/month used to cost around $30-90, 300GB/month is now $10-30) I'd say these 3 factors are signals for a capacity upgrade for the region.

Eddie silently ignores all changes to the base directives if in Append mode, and uses Base + Custom in Custom mode, so remove nobind from there and add your custom directives on the left, then set it to Custom mode. Little tip: To check the OpenVPN config Eddie would use to connect to a server, in the Servers/Countries tab right click on an entry and select More.

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Some or all of the AirVPN crew must be into Astronomy, I noticed all the star/constellation names they've given to the various servers. No problem, when I'm not here as a keyboard jockey I'm outside on clear nights with my C-14.

Hello! AirVPN is not affected. All our websites and web services (airvpn.org and our other domains) use Let's Encrypt certificates, which chain to ISRG Root X1. No eMudhra root or intermediate certificate is part of any of our certificate chains. The VPN connections do not depend on public certificate authorities at all: OpenVPN: your client authenticates our servers only against AirVPN's own private CA, which is included in your configuration file. A certificate issued by any public CA, eMudhra included, is rejected. WireGuard: there are no certificates. The server is authenticated by its public key, which is also in your configuration file. Eddie: it communicates with our infrastructure through a channel encrypted and authenticated with an RSA key built into Eddie itself, so it does not rely on the certificate store of your system. Since the tunnel is authenticated this way, someone on your local network or at your ISP cannot use a forged public certificate to get between you and our VPN servers. The remaining risk is the general one that applies to every website: a person who holds one of the compromised intermediate keys could forge a certificate for any domain, and a browser or operating system that has not received the block could accept it. Mozilla, Google, Apple and Microsoft have already revoked and blocked the affected certificates, thus upgrade asap. Kind regards

I had to reinstall Eddie client for several times and setting it up is always a quest for the whole evening. Had lost my evenings with 2.26.2 - 2.27.1 version update and ovpn-dco failure on win 10, thx experimental version managed to be here again. So many users have ISP blocks and it's always a great problem to recieve server list, for me I had to search for some free VPN, download, connect and retrieve airvpn server list, though Eddie app loggs in without any problems even with isp blocks. Imagine how you can simplify life of common users if app would have some servers in memory or kind of random test servers to connect to get info.

Steps 1 and 2 fixed my issue, to be safe, I also did step 3. Thanks

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in New York City, USA, is available: Hiisi. The AirVPN client will show automatically the new server; if you use any other OpenVPN or WireGuard client you can generate all the files to access it through our configuration/certificates/key generator (menu "Client Area"->"Config generator"). The server accepts connections on ports 53, 80, 443, 1194, 2018 UDP and TCP for OpenVPN and ports 1637, 47107 and 51820 UDP for WireGuard. Hiisi supports OpenVPN over SSL and OpenVPN over SSH, TLS 1.3, OpenVPN tls-crypt and WireGuard. Full IPv6 support is included as well. As usual no traffic limits, no logs, no discrimination on protocols and hardened security against various attacks with separate entry and exit-IP addresses. You can check the status as usual in our real time servers monitor , by clicking the server name. Direct link: https://airvpn.org/servers/Hiisi Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff Photo by John Dillenbeck (Public Domain)

An IP from Israel(77.91.71.99) has been casing AirVPN servers on port 8096 over the forwarding service. I was not aware that Mossad was "in dire need" of our video files. Those that have Jellyfin or EMBY running be aware of this. Last attempt: 10/16/26

Been a happy member for about 5 years! Thank you for reliable and private service! You guys are a godsend!!! 😁

Thank AirVPN team for cheap, stable VPN, another 3 years from me 😉

That would be great. Even a 10 year plan 😂 You could do that even now. Just stack up the subscription. I agree. Thank you devs!

Hi AirVPN team, First of all, congratulations on the excellent service and on remaining a truly independent VPN, still faithful to its original values. That is becoming increasingly rare and deserves to be appreciated. The current three-year offer is great! But since some of us are planning to stay aboard for a very long time, how about a five-year package with an extra-special discount for your most loyal customers? Then I could pay now and not think about renewing again until after 2030! :-) Just asking on behalf of the AirVPN faithful… you never know! Thanks again for the excellent service. Keep up the great work! Kind regards & datalove

New here, just got my subscription. Thank you!

@lotuslove165 Still working with the folks at Airvpn. Looks like we are getting close to a solution. I'll be delighted if the rule changes they can make will finally facilitate KVM ---> NAT ----> VPN with lock protection. Will keep you informed.

Dear developers, Although you wrote “support to Linux systems based on systemd and SysV-style init”, I'm sorry to inform you that this stable version 2.26.2 still does not support the Devuan GNU/Linux 5 and 6 operating systems, as I mentioned on July 20, 2026, regarding the “2.26.2 beta" version: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/80641-eddie-desktop-edition-226-beta-released/?do=findComment&comment=263788 Below is a screenshot showing that privilege escalation via pkexec on Devuan works for synaptic but not for eddie-ui 2.26.2: Due to persistent bugs on sysvinit systems, I’m still stuck with version 2.25.1. If this bug isn’t fixed by Black Friday, for security reasons I’ll unfortunately be forced to consider an annual subscription with one of your competitors, <advertisement removed --- Staff> — something I’d like to avoid. Please do something to fix this privilege escalation bug with pkexec.

I also think this is a worthy cause to support, would really mesh well with Airvpn mission.

https://annas-archive.gl/ would appear to qualify under "Circumvent censorship and any other barrier to seek, receive and impart information and ideas without interference and regardless of frontiers" They also sell ad space: https://annas-archive.gl/faq

May I request the addition of 10Gbps Tokyo and Singapore servers? Thank you.

Hello! In the early stages, the names were taken from the constellations. A little later, from constellations and stars, and finally only from stars. We have exceptions in Tokyo: two servers are named after imaginary planets from Space Battleship Yamato and UFO Robot Grendizer. Kind regards

You should support Pleroma. It peers with Mastodon and the developers and users are much more pro-free-speech. Plus Pleroma's interface is a lot nicer looking than Mastodon's.

The eunomia.social domain linked from post #4 was taken over by Malaysian casino ads (can the link be removed/annotated?). Here is a live link, if only to the project announcement https://www.synyo.com/news/eunomia-project-to-combat-misinformation-with-decentralized-secure-and-trustworthy-social-media/

Hello First, I want to thank the team behind Airvpn. I've been a happy customer for 3 years (and atleast 3 more ) and I truly believe in your mission. As some of you might know, in the recent weeks the access to internet in iran has been severed by firewalls. The countries' regime has been opressing people in every age group through brutal acts, officially over 224 people killed with over 29 minors included. Iranian government is notorious for torturing and murdering their own people and covering it up by blocking the media and/or shutting down electricity.(2 years ago they shut down electricity and burned people who were fleeing to the reeds) currently, big hacking groups both national and international have declared cyberwar against the government of Iran (Such as Anonymous). It would be great if you can provide a service/ training material for the people of Iran in order to bypass this firewall and share with the world what actually is happening in there or organize against the government. I would personally translate these documentations to Persian to enable more people At first, it might seem impossible but since a lot of services such as Google Mail are still unblocked and by setting up emails that reply back to people you can enable them to access the internet freely Of course, the wonderful team of Airvpn might have much better ideas than me to help these people. Best some guy who wants to help their people

What about supporting Signal? It’s a non-profit organization and their software is open source. Obviously it’s not as flexible as XMPP, but it seems to grow more popular: Signal might be the first privacy-oriented app for a lot of people. https://signal.org

I don't see the sense in doing that at all. What is the exact goal you're aiming for with this?

Would it be possible to have added the ability to use 3rd party DNS services which support DNS over TLS or DNS over HTTPS? I'd love the option to paste in the NextDNS DNS-over-HTTPS link ( https://dns.nextdns.io/xxxxx) and funnel all DNS requests for a certain devices through it. There's a lot of added functionality/logging available through such a service and it would be a good addition I think.

Hi Casper31. Thanks for the heads up. I'm a very much a novice here and am getting my head around QUBES and WHONIX. [One problem seems to be, I think I read, that QUBES has problems with some graphics cards.] A problem, I think, is that ToR appears to be compromised to some extent, according to news reports on the Snowden docs and also multiple court filings. So, if you want anonymity, privacy and security, you need a VPN + Tor or VPN + Qubes/Whonix. I have been reading up on the various tech collectives helping folks in repressive countries avoid being detected. For them, it can be a matter of life or death - and so these discussions. There are a number of people advocating a VPN cascade /multihop and ToR - another approach I've seen. But I do not have the technical expertise to judge. Given the way the West is itself engaging in mass surveillance, we may all need such technology soon. Even keeping a hand written diary is now illegal in some countries, if you work for or worked for the government there. Hello 1984.

There are two main websites for the Bitmask VPN of demo.bitmask.net and riseup.net. Both are actually managed by Riseup. Riseup has a long history of respecting anonymity since the year 1999, so I would not worry about them logging. Demo.bitmask.net is free because it is obviously meant for testing purposes since Bitmask is still in beta. Riseup.net is currently free for anyone to use as well. They have servers in Seattle, Seoul, Amsterdam, and Montreal. It is important to differentiate between the LEAP/Bitmask software which will always be free and the organizations that use the software to offer a VPN which may be free for now, but it is not going to stay that way for long. Just two days ago the LEAP Platform version 0.8 was released. It lists one of the new features as, “It is possible to require invite codes for new users signing up.” Riseup.net will most likely adopt this new feature soon that restricts access. Riseup is a collective of people with similar interests that operates based on volunteer work and member donations.

They also reserve the right to kill anyone with a drone strike at the push of a button. No trial needed.

Not only the internet. They give themselves the right to invade any country in the world who doesn't play under their rules.

Here are some technical background informations. The gateways would push at constant load about, 2 Mbit/s: ~633 GB 6 Mbit/s: ~1.9 TB 10 Mbit/s: ~3.2 TB 25 Mbit/s: ~8 TB Min. server requirements: CPU: 1x (64Bit) RAM: 1GB HDD: 5-8GB NIC: 1x Software: Debian Wheezy (7) 64Bit Kernel fastd batman-adv-Kernelmodul The gateways are sponsored by the community and serve, in connection with the vpn, as exit node of the network, they are used also to connect different city´s and hackerspaces (e.g. ChaosVPN [1]). For more informations, just ask and i´ll provide as much as possible [1] http://wiki.hamburg.ccc.de/index.php/ChaosVPN