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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

Update: restrictions lifted Hello! The PHP project released the fixed versions earlier than scheduled, and we have installed them on every system of our infrastructure. The temporary restrictions described above have now been removed: The forum is writable again: you can post new topics and replies, edit posts, upload attachments,date your profile. The support ticket area works normally: you can open new tickets and reply to existing ones from the website. Password recovery works again. The customer API (https://airvpn.org/api/) accepts multipart/form-data requests again. If you wrote to support@airvpn.org in the meantime, there is no need to open a ticket as well: we will answer you there. If any of the functions above still fails for you, please clear your browser cache and try again; if the problem persists, open a ticket or write to support@airvpn.org. VPN connections, Eddie and the AirVPN Suite were not affected at any time. Thank you for your patience and understanding. AirVPN Staff

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)

Hello! First of all, thank you for writing free and open source software dedicated to AirVPN. We had a quick look at both repositories. The code is careful and we did not find any telemetry and/or third-party endpoints. The client identifies itself honestly and the documentation describes our protocol accurately. We appreciate it. There are three points that affect our infrastructure, which you might like to take into account for the next releases. References are to wave-vpn-desktop at commit ce9a15fd and wave-vpn-mobile at commit 64a2be1b. 1. Periodic tunnel verification (desktop) verify_tunnel() in src/platform/linux.rs runs every 60 seconds for the whole session: the tun check for each IP family and the dns check on https://<server>_exit.airservers.org:89/check/, plus a checkdns.airvpn.org query. Any failure tears the tunnel down. Eddie runs these checks only once, right after connecting. With a 60 second loop, a short outage of the check service would disconnect every Wave VPN user at the same time, and they would all reconnect together. You might like to consider running the checks only at connection time, or much less often with some random jitter, and not disconnecting on a single failed check. 2. Latency measurement (desktop and Android) The "ping" is a TCP connection to port 443 on the first entry IPv4 of every server (src/gui.rs on desktop, vpn/Connection.kt on Android), so about 250 connections are opened and closed at every login, launch and refresh. The desktop refresh can go down to 15 seconds from the command line, and the Android manual refresh has no rate limit. A lighter probe such as ICMP echo, fewer probes in parallel, cached results with a minimum interval between refreshes, and no probes while connected (they go through the tunnel and skew the ranking anyway) would help a lot. Also, on desktop an unreachable server currently counts as 0 ms (src/documents.rs), so "Best server" ends up preferring servers that do not answer. 3. Bootstrap servers (desktop and Android) The desktop client always uses the bootstrap URLs and the RSA key from the AirVPN.json compiled into the binary and ignores the ones in the manifest (src/lib.rs, src/documents.rs). If we change bootstrap addresses or rotate the key, older builds would stop working. It might be worth storing and using the bootstrap URLs and key from the latest manifest, and keeping the embedded ones only as a first-run fallback. On Android, Protocol.kt and Session.kt send user and manifest at every refresh, always to the first URL, with no backoff while the bootstrap servers are unreachable. Trying the other URLs when one fails, with an increasing delay between retries, would make the client more robust and lighter on our side. Thank you again for your work. Feel free to ask here if anything about the protocol is unclear. Kind regards

Just switched from Proton, thank you!

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

New here, just got my subscription. Thank you!

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that the Black Friday weeks have started at AirVPN! Save up to 74% when compared to the one-month plan price Check all plans and discounts here: https://airvpn.org/buy If you're already a customer of ours and you wish to jump aboard for a longer period, any additional subscription will be added on top of already existing subscriptions and you will not lose any day. What's new since last Black Friday OpenVPN 2.7 with Data Channel Offload (DCO) on every server. The whole network now runs OpenVPN 2.7 with the DCO kernel module, which processes encryption inside the kernel for higher throughput and lower CPU load. The Configuration Generator default profile is DCO-ready, with no deprecated directives (details https://airvpn.org/road_to_openvpn26) 17 new 10 Gbit/s full duplex servers in Amsterdam (Netherlands), London and Manchester (United Kingdom), Toronto (Canada), Los Angeles and New York City (USA) and Stockholm (Sweden) United Kingdom infrastructure fully renewed: all the old 1 Gbit/s servers were replaced by six new 10 Gbit/s servers, which raises the UK theoretical peak from 15 to 60 Gbit/s. In Sweden, the older Uppsala servers were retired in favour of new 10 Gbit/s hardware in Stockholm Total infrastructure bandwidth up by about 25%, now over 1.3 Tbit/s Faster uploads and smoother performance under load: a deep rework of server-side routing and firewall rules removed a bottleneck on busy high-speed servers, and network tuning sharply reduced packet drops Eddie Android edition 4.0 and 4.1: full AmneziaWG support alongside OpenVPN and WireGuard. It includes a built-in database of more than 30 real websites whose traffic your connection can imitate, to get past VPN blocking. Login keeps working even when our bootstrap servers are unreachable, and IPv4 and IPv6 can travel over an IPv6 tunnel with WireGuard and AmneziaWG. Version 4.1 brings improved stability, from Android 5.1 to Android 16, Android TV included Eddie desktop edition 2.26.2 for Windows, macOS and Linux (ARM included): OpenVPN 2.7, WireGuard for Windows 1.0, extensive security hardening of the privileged components, and stronger encryption of saved profiles AirVPN Suite 2.1 and 2.2 for Linux (x86-64, AArch64 and ARMv7): reworked network and default gateway detection, a new option to choose whether IPv4 traffic travels over an IPv6 tunnel, improved IPv6 handling and a security-hardened traffic splitting manager. Hummingbird 2.1.0 for macOS runs natively on both Intel and Apple Silicon AirVPN is one of the oldest and most experienced consumer VPNs on the market, operating since 2010. It never changed ownership and it was never sold out to data harvesting or malware specialized companies as regrettably happened to several competitors. Ever since 2010 AirVPN has been faithful to its mission ( https://airvpn.org/mission ). AirVPN does not inspect and/or log client traffic and offers: five simultaneous connections per account (additional connection slots available if needed) state-of-the-art and flexible inbound remote port forwarding ( https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/63545-update-remote-port-forwarding-system-expansion ) active daemons load balancing for unmatched high performance ( https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/48234-speedtest-comparison/?do=findComment&comment=131616 ) - current 'all-time high' on the client side is 730 Mbit/s with OpenVPN and 2000 Mbit/s with WireGuard flexible and customizable opt-in block lists ( https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/49876-new-feature-dns-block-lists ) protecting you from adware, trackers, spam and other malicious sources. You can customize answers or exceptions globally, at account level or even at single device level. powerful API ( https://airvpn.org/faq/api ) Full IPv6 support comfortable management of your client certificates and keys ( https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/26209-how-to-manage-client-certificatekey-pairs ) OpenVPN, WireGuard and AmneziaWG (Android) connections AES-GCM and ChaCha20 OpenVPN ciphers on all servers Perfect Forward Secrecy with unique per-server 4096-bit Diffie-Hellman keys internal DNS: each server runs its own DNS server. free and open source software client-side software support for traffic splitting on an application basis on Android and Linux and on a destination basis on Windows and macOS GPS spoofing in Eddie Android edition AirVPN is the only VPN provider which is actively developing the OpenVPN 3 library with a fork that's currently 379 commits ahead of OpenVPN master and adds key features and bug fixes for a much more comfortable and reliable experience: https://github.com/AirVPN/openvpn3-airvpn AirVPN, in accordance with its mission ( https://airvpn.org/mission ), develops only free and open source software for many platforms, including Android, Linux (both x86 and ARM based systems), macOS and Windows. Promotion due to end on 2026-12-03 (UTC). Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

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! ♡

Halloween renewal - Grazie, Eduardo, from New World.

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@after_lunch Hello! Thank you for the complete report, it shows what is happening. Your Wi-Fi adapter gets its DNS servers from your router: 194.168.4.100 and 194.168.8.100, which are your ISP's resolvers. Eddie 2.26.2 sets the AirVPN DNS (10.128.0.1) only on its own adapter, and in some circumstances its DNS leak protection fails to block queries sent to the resolvers of the other adapters. This is a known bug of 2.26.2, and your report matches it: Network Lock is active and the log says "DNS leak protection with packet filtering enabled", yet Windows still reaches your ISP's resolvers. You can solve it in one of two ways: 1. Stay on 2.26.2 and apply a workaround: open Eddie's Preferences > DNS, enable "Force all network interfaces for DNS", save, then disconnect and reconnect. OR 2. Upgrade to Eddie 2.27.2 beta, which contains the fix: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/81340-eddie-desktop-edition-227-beta-released/ Then repeat the test on ipleak.net while connected: only AirVPN DNS servers should be listed. If your ISP's resolvers still appear after the workaround, please switch to 2.27.2, and if they persist there too, post a new system report. About hiding long text: the forum does not convert spoiler tags typed by hand. Use the Spoiler button in the editor toolbar and paste the text inside the box that appears, or simply attach the report as a .txt file. Kind regards

I have been facing a predicament for months, which is that Steam thinks i'm a bot and doesn't let me play any multiplayer games in.. multiplayer, and I can't turn my VPN off to use all 5 ports on it to host numerous servers. The problem is, there isn't a way to IP or domain whitelist Steam, since I don't know any of the ip's it uses to connect, and they change alot. This is where app-based tunneling would shine though, and here is why 1. App based tunelling would most likely save you guys alot of bandwidth, now people can tell the VPN to send web browser connections through their actual internet, and then you won't have alot of traffic taken up by YouTube streams 2. This defeats the need to switch to other clients, which is clunky and complicated. 3. It lets you do everything in one app (Eddie), which is extremely convenient and simple for newcomers to use, probably bringing more subscribers to the VPN too since split-tunneling is a useful feature 4. It straight up lets you split tunnel some stuff in the first place, such as Steam i've already mentioned, which uses a variety of ip's and domains i don't know, and i'm not about to spend a few hours in wireshark getting all the ip's/domains and adding them. So please, 4 good reasons on why app split-tunneling should be added to Eddie. P.S. another thing I noticed was that the split-tunneling already in Eddie didn't seem to work until I reconnected the VPN, is this a limitation, a bug, or just something that isn't added? - Thanks, a pleading CS2 player and server hoster

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

Hello! A quick follow-up on the WireGuard session counter issue mentioned above. The cause has been identified and fixed, and the fix is currently being rolled out across our infrastructure. Servers that have already received the update are back to reporting accurate figures, and the remaining ones will follow shortly, so the connection counts shown in the server monitor and in the related statistics will match reality again in the very near future. As previously stated, actual connections and the service itself have never been affected, only the displayed counter was. Kind regards

Thank you all for the valuable feedback. Following this thread, we have identified a bug, most likely introduced on October 7th-8th, which causes the WireGuard session counter on some servers to grow incorrectly over time. As a result, the number of connections currently shown in the server monitor is higher than the real one. The actual connections, and the service itself, are not affected. We are working on a fix and will update this thread as soon as it is in place. On a side note, this also means that our no-overselling commitment is honoured by an even wider margin than the one computed by @fsy Kind regards

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.

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

@Staff Please consider adding more servers in these locations if possible. Thank you.

Hello, thank you for the report. We checked all exit addresses, IPv4 and IPv6, of our Phoenix servers (Guniibuu, Khambalia, Sheratan) and Chicago servers (Fang, Kruger, Meridiana, Praecipua, Sadalsuud, Sneden, Superba): MaxMind GeoLite2, ipinfo.io and ip-api.com all place them correctly in Phoenix, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois, US. Google and Meta use their own location data for IP addresses, which can differ from those public databases, so they can place a shared exit address in another country even when the public databases are right. We cannot edit their data directly. Google offers a form to report a wrong IP location: https://support.google.com/websearch/workflow/9308722?hl=en Submit it while connected to the affected server; Google says updates can take more than a month. If it happens again, please post the server name and the exit IP shown by https://ipleak.net at that moment, so we can check that specific address. In the meantime, a server in another city or country is the practical workaround. Kind regards

Well. I have the same issue, I just do the steps again. And wait for the new version.

+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.

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.

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

@Nitrox Hello! Thank you for the report, it shows the cause. Your system has two Eddie tunnel adapters, "Eddie" and "Eddie 1". "Eddie 1" was left behind by an earlier session that did not close properly (the log starts with "Recovery. Unexpected crash?"): even after Eddie has disconnected, it is still up with a VPN address and it still holds the VPN routes 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1. When Eddie connects, the new tunnel itself works (the WireGuard handshake succeeds), but Windows answers that the VPN routes "already exist", so your traffic goes to the stale adapter instead of the new tunnel. The route check then times out, Eddie disconnects and tries the next server, which is the loop you see. After Eddie gives up, those leftover routes still capture all your traffic, which is why the internet stays blocked until you restart: the restart removes the stale adapter. To fix it: 1. Close Eddie completely. 2. Restart Windows using Start > Power > Restart, not Shut down followed by powering on. With Windows Fast Startup enabled (the default), a shutdown does not fully reset the system, while Restart always does. 3. If the problem comes back, close Eddie, open Device Manager, select View > Show hidden devices, expand "Network adapters" and uninstall every "Eddie Tunnel" entry (for example "Eddie Tunnel" and "Eddie Tunnel #2"). Then restart Windows (Restart, as above) and start Eddie, which will create a new adapter when it connects. If the problem persists after these steps, please attach a new system report generated right after a failed connection attempt, before closing Eddie or restarting Windows. Kind regards

Hello! Please ignore our previous message in this thread: it was meant for another topic. Deleted. This error is caused by a bug of Eddie 2.26.2 (and earlier) on macOS. To check the application's integrity, Eddie stores a small file in the system folder /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools. On Macs where that folder does not exist yet, because no other application has created it, the file cannot be saved and Eddie refuses to start with exactly this message. The bug is fixed in Eddie 2.27.2 beta. Please download it from here: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/81340-eddie-desktop-edition-227-beta-released/ Select the right package for your Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel), quit Eddie, copy the new Eddie into your Applications folder replacing the old one, then open it from Applications. Your settings are kept. If the error still appears with 2.27.2, please post the complete message: this version also prints the reason of the failure in parentheses, which tells us what is going wrong. Kind regards

@gtrman Hello! Thank you, the backup file shows the remaining cause. The backup was saved before step 2, so it still shows the old ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES entry (AC) with FA; that is expected. The second entry that blocks Eddie is this one: (A;OICIIO;FA;;;CO) It is the CREATOR OWNER entry, which the normal icacls output shows as CREATOR OWNER:(OI)(CI)(IO)(F). On a default installation it is stored as (A;OICIIO;GA;;;CO). GA (generic all) and FA (explicit full access) grant the same permissions in practice, but Eddie's check reads the stored value as it is: it accepts GA and rejects FA. Because icacls displays both as (F), the difference was not visible in the first output. This entry does not give anyone access to System32 itself, only to files created there later, and only for their owner. Eddie's check does not make this distinction yet, and we will report it to the developers. Please open a Command Prompt as administrator again and run the following commands. 1. Save a backup of the current permissions: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup2.txt" 2. Store the CREATOR OWNER entry in its default form: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /grant:r "*S-1-3-0:(OI)(CI)(IO)(GA)" S-1-3-0 is the fixed identifier of CREATOR OWNER, so the command works with any Windows language. As before, it may take a minute; wait until it reports "Successfully processed 1 files". 3. Save the new permissions to a second file, to check them:Open icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-check.txt" system32-acl-check.txt with your favorite text editor. It should contain (A;OICIIO;GA;;;CO) and (A;OICI;0x1200a9;;;AC), and no entry ending with FA;;;CO or FA;;;AC. Then start Eddie. If it still shows the same error, please post the content of system32-acl-check.txt here. To undo only today's change, you can run: icacls "%SystemRoot%" /restore "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup2.txt" Kind regards

@gtrman Hello! Thank you, the output confirms the cause. This is the entry that blocks Eddie: APPLICATION PACKAGE AUTHORITY\ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES:(OI)(CI)(F) It gives Full control of System32 to every Store (UWP) app on the system. On a default installation this group can only read and execute files in System32. The other entries do not need to be changed for Eddie. Please open a Command Prompt as administrator (right-click Command Prompt, then "Run as administrator") and run the following commands. 1. Save a backup of the current permissions of the folder: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /save "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup.txt" 2. Replace the Full control entry with the default read and execute permission: icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" /grant:r "*S-1-15-2-1:(OI)(CI)(RX)" S-1-15-2-1 is the fixed identifier of ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES, so the command works with any Windows language. Please do not simply remove the entry: Store apps, including parts of the Start menu and Settings, need read access to System32. Windows also applies the change to the files and subfolders that inherit from System32, so the command may take a minute. Wait until it reports "Successfully processed 1 files". 3. Run icacls "%SystemRoot%\System32" again. The ALL APPLICATION PACKAGES line should now end with (OI)(CI)(RX). Then start Eddie. If Eddie still shows the same error, please open system32-acl-backup.txt in your user folder with Notepad and post its content here. It is a single line that shows the exact permission values, which the normal icacls output does not show. If you ever need to undo the change, this command restores the saved permissions: icacls "%SystemRoot%" /restore "%USERPROFILE%\system32-acl-backup.txt" Eddie does not check wuauclt.exe and wuaueng.dll, so the ownership change on those two files is not related to this error. And when you move to Linux, Eddie is available there as well. Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that AirVPN Suite version 2.2.0 is now available for x86-64 and ARM based Linux systems. This is a maintenance and security hardening release focused on the traffic split infrastructure. The 2.2.0 Suite includes: Bluetit: lightweight, ultra-fast D-Bus controlled system daemon providing full connectivity and integration to AirVPN servers, or generic OpenVPN and WireGuard servers. Bluetit can also enforce Network Lock and/or connect the system to AirVPN during the system bootstrap Goldcrest: Bluetit client, allowing full integration with AirVPN servers, users, keys, profiles as well as generic OpenVPN and WireGuard servers Hummingbird: lightweight and standalone binary for generic OpenVPN and WireGuard server connections Cuckoo: traffic split manager, granting full access and functionality to AirVPN's traffic split infrastructure airsu: a "run and forget" tool to automatically set and enable the user environment for the X.Org or Wayland based ecosystem without any user input WHAT'S NEW NEW: Cuckoo security hardening: namespace directories are now opened with additional ownership and permission checks NEW: once root privileges have been dropped, Cuckoo can no longer regain them (no_new_privs is now set) NEW: traffic split namespace names are now validated by both Bluetit (trafficsplitnamespace run control directive) and Cuckoo, and are limited to 32 characters WireGuard and network namespace runtime directories now use /run/wireguard and /run/netns (legacy /var paths removed) improved POSIX compliance of the installation script Please note: if you have set a custom trafficsplitnamespace longer than 32 characters, you need to shorten it before upgrading. AirVPN Suite 2.2.0 is free and open source software released under GPLv3. Source code is available on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/AirVPN-Suite AirVPN Suite 2.2.0 is available for x86-64, AArch64 (ARM 64 bit) and armv7l (ARM 32 bit) architectures. Legacy versions are also available. https://airvpn.org/linux/suite/ AirVPN Suite resources, links and forum: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/79336-airvpn-suite-resources/ Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Hello! The problem seems completely resolved. Kind regards

thanks @pHxaq and @Staff for the info!

@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.

You mean airvpn.org. But no, it isn't. It's a dead giveaway if one of the language options for the website is Simplified Chinese. Chinese wouldn't be the first or second language choice for an European/Italian company. Though, you explicitly wrote that you know it's not affiliated with AirVPN, so I guess you knew deep within they're not part of AirVPN, anyway The only two websites affiliated with AirVPN are eddie.website and ipleak.net.

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new 10 Gbit/s full duplex server located in Stockholm, Sweden, is available: Formosa. 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. Formosa 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/Formosa Do not hesitate to contact us for any information or issue. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

Fantastic news! Good to have more servers in the Nordics. Hopefully Baltics would also receive an update soon.

Hello! We're very glad to announce the Eddie Android edition 4.1.0 is available Eddie Android edition is a fully integrated with AirVPN, free and open source client allowing comfortable connections to AirVPN servers and generic VPN servers offering compatible protocols: OpenVPN, WireGuard, and AmneziaWG 2.0 powered up protocol. Source code available on GitLab: https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/EddieAndroid Eddie Android edition is Android TV friendly and also offers GPS spoofing, traffic splitting on an application basis, 10 languages, extended compatibility from Android 5.1.1 to Android 16, and much more. What's new Eddie Android edition 4.1.0 introduces a new custom AirVPN library that combines wg-go and amneziawg-go into a single runtime. This architectural change addresses a fundamental constraint of the Go runtime. Go was designed with the assumption that only one runtime instance exists per process and does not support multiple independent runtimes within the same process. The previous 4.0 version had been linked against two separate Go-based libraries since support for Amnezia WireGuard was introduced. Despite the precautions implemented, on a small subset of devices, this configuration still resulted in rare crashes. Analysis showed that such crashes originated from Go runtime components, most notably the garbage collector. By consolidating both libraries into a single Go runtime, Eddie Android Edition 4.1.0 gets rid of these crashes across all supported devices. Furthermore, Eddie Android edition 4.1.0 adheres more strictly to AmneziaWG protocol version 2 real implementations. Specifically: The <c> tag for I parameters has been removed. Although documented for about a year, it was never implemented in the AmneziaWG protocol and any implementation intent was dropped during February 2026. Because, regrettably, it remained in the Amnezia documentation, Eddie 4.0.x still generated this parameter in certain profiles, resulting in the well-known interoperability issues with other clients. Eddie 4.1.0 eliminates this inconsistency. See: https://github.com/amnezia-vpn/amneziawg-go/issues/120 Added support for the <rc> and <rd> tags for I parameters. Jc, Jmin, Jmax parameters must now be ≥ 1. Previous Eddie / Amnezia releases accepted values ≥ 0, making it possible to explicitly configure zero junk packets, thereby allowing users to explicitly configure a logically degenerate state in which the junk-packet mechanism remained enabled while simultaneously instructing it to emit precisely zero junk packets. This is no longer supported; to disable junk packet generation please omit the J parameters. WireGuard compatibility now requires the canonical header mapping (Hₙ = n), as packet header identifiers are interpreted in a strict semantic order. Earlier AmneziaWG implementations, including that used by Eddie 4.0.x, internally canonicalized header mappings, allowing any non-repeating permutation of {1, 2, 3, 4} to preserve WireGuard compatibility. Eddie now enforces the canonical mapping whenever interoperability with standard WireGuard peers is required, including connections to AirVPN servers using the default Amnezia configuration. Eddie Android Edition 4.1.0 also includes updated libraries and dependencies. Please refer to the changelog available here for additional details. Download link, checksum and changelog Quick reference and download page: https://airvpn.org/android/eddie Eddie Android edition 4.1.0 APK direct download short URL: https://airvpn.org/tv Eddie Android edition 4.1.0 is also available on the Google Play Store https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.airvpn.eddie Changelog is available here: https://gitlab.com/AirVPN/EddieAndroid/-/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt?ref_type=heads SHA-256 checksum if you prefer to download from our web site and side load the app:  $ sha256sum EddieAndroid-4.1.0-VC40.apk d154767a4b4f65c8248f5a3529875bc022a9032baae696beb81529d478d6c190 EddieAndroid-4.1.0-VC40.apk Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff

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.

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.

Apologies if I have been unclear - this happens every time after the initial connection. Every single time. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the Suite three times now, with identical results: After configuring Bluetit, it works on the first reboot. Every reboot afterwards results in the above scenario. I have used the following methods for shutdown & rebooting: LXQt menu > shutdown, LXQt menu > restart, terminal/CLI> poweroff, terminal/CLI > reboot. These are not "unclean" shutdowns as far the operating system is concerned. If Bluetit requires some form of manual disconnect prior to shutting down or rebooting, that would seem to be a flaw in Bluetit. Likewise, even if there were an "unclean" exit, Bluetit should be able to recover on restart. Respectfully, in either of these scenarios, I believe this is a developer issue. In its current condition, Bluetit appears to be broken and unusable. Regards

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

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.

Yes, it's annoying. I know your thinking, unknown TOR exit runners, you want to help the TOR network by providing one more exit node, because kind of I am afraid of possible legal consequences running a TOR exit node over my ISP line but now I'm behind a VPN and I want to help; it's okay so far. But it's not okay to not take into consideration that some of us use services and websites which constantly try to prevent TOR exit IPs from viewing them (not limited to TOR, some try to block all anonymizer services). A TOR server will be listed on a TOR exit servers list even after you shut it down and as long as it's there we suffer from blocks. Blocks we are trying to circumvent; that's what a proxy service is good for, right? In addition, AirVPN run two exits themselves. Given the bandwidth of these servers (100 MBit/s) I don't think your contribution is a great gain in overall TOR performance as your internet connection is most probably not that fast and not that stable (I assume you use your internet to watch Netflix, play games online and the like, creating traffic which lowers performance of the node). Third, you expose AirVPN and yourself to attacks from the internet by those who want to literally destroy TOR. Attacks on AirVPN's servers will cause line problems, line problems harm the user's experience. You as a TOR exit runner (although behind a VPN) expose yourself to attacks, too: It's not the AirVPN server who gets infected because a vulnerability in the TOR software is being abused; it's your computer. Your computer gets infected, and it's most probably your personal computer with your personal information on it. Your antivirus software is just a bunch of algorithms, too, it's not supposed to detect 100% of vulnerabilites in software and prevent their abuse. And: It's you who will be marked an extremist. If you think it's easy these days to help TOR you are mistaken. Maybe installation and setup is easy, to preserve your own security by running this piece of software sadly is not. So, before you start that TOR software again, think twice. Thank you.