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Version 2.19.2 (Tue, 21 Apr 2020 12:42:14 +0000) [bugfix] - Linux - Fixed crash at startup [bugfix] - Windows - Fixed an issue about detection of wintun driver Other feedbacks are under investigation. Thx.

@ecabdf Hello! Yes, even our 1st gen, very old FireStick can stream HD with no problems even with OpenVPN on AES-256 - and you have also the option to gain more performance with CHACHA20-POLY1305. We see that the LG B8 features a CPU that's at least as powerful as the 2nd generation Firestick, so no problems for it as well. Kind regards

@C3emfcb0Nzt0xiDj It doesn't look like a server or server line problem. You can see from the ping matrix that there is no packet loss between servers in the countries you mention. For a cross-check this is what we see from a couple of ISPs from Italy: $ ping -i 0.2 -W 0.2 -c 100 -q 134.19.179.170 PING 134.19.179.170 (134.19.179.170) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 134.19.179.170 ping statistics --- 100 packets transmitted, 100 received, 0% packet loss, time 19869ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 35.528/37.343/50.654/2.551 ms Another cross-check comes from @giganerd who uses your very same ISP so the matter is quite puzzling. Can you have your ISP perform a remote check on your nearest DSLAM and last mile? Kind regards

@rymar Hello! The bug is when you shut down Eddie properly and at the next run you find "Recovery" messages etc. etc. If you don't shut down Eddie properly, such messages are correct and expected. The bug does not come out regularly and it's hard to spot, we are investigating. In the meantime you can safely ignore the issue. Kind regards

@rymar Hello! It's a bug and we are investigating. You can in the meantime safely ignore it as it does not affect anything. Can you confirm that you get the following log: even after you have shut Eddie down properly? Kind regards

@giganerd Hi! With OpenVPN 2 we outperform the current data set we have about IPsec on equal terms, as we achieve 1.7 Gbit/s on a Xeon E3-1230 with 300 connected clients in UDP and AES-256-GCM in Data Channel. It must be said however that IPsec works in the kernel space, while OpenVPN in the user space, so IPsec has a significant advantage under this respect. If the data set we have refers to an L2TP/IPsec implementation, that boost might be lost because you need time to convert IPsec to L2TP - and we have not considered the issue so far. On the other hand, OpenVPN community claimed in late 2019 to open source the Linux kernel module of OpenVPN, and that could dramatically outperform IPsec even more (and outperform Wireguard too with AES-NI supporting systems as Wireguard does not support AES). https://openvpn.net/openvpn-hackathon-2019/ "The team expects to open source their kernel module in Q1 of 2020 and afterwards work on merging it into the kernel mainline." If you have any experimental data set showing IPsec beating the performance of OpenVPN 2 in our optimized setup please let us know. On top of that, we must also say that when we founded AirVPN in 2010 we preferred OpenVPN not on performance evaluations, but because the suspicion that NSA had compromised IPsec appeared legitimate. Later, such suspicions appeared even more legitimate, see for example the "Snowden documents" (Bullrun program, for example https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12325.html) as well as https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy.pdf page 9. Kind regards

@GhastMaster OK, fine! It means the problem was not caused by the bug we have detected. Well, we're glad to know anyway that the problem is resolved. Kind regards

@GhastMaster Hummingbird uses OpenVPN3-AirVPN library which is remarkably more efficient than OpenVPN 2, so a slight throughput improvement is possible. You should also notice connections and disconnections up to 200 times faster than OpenVPN 2. Kind regards

Hello! It's a bug, we have detected it and it will be fixed soon. To resolve the situation in the meantime: open a terminal type the command sudo rm /etc/airvpn/* set your favorite DNS with your system utilities Now Hummingbird will be able to run properly again. Kind regards

Hello! Yes, already checked in another thread months ago, no traffic leaks. Remember that Windows does not reset sockets when routing table and default gateway change but Network Lock prevents leaks. Specifically tested for telemetry service. Firewall rules ensure no traffic leaks but then again you might have processes from the manufacturer that secretly modify the system packet filtering table and then restore them without leaving traces. It's not rational running a closed source Operating System nowadays but that's what most people prefer (at least in the Desktop market), so we provide solutions to minimize risks. Kind regards

Hello! We would like to remind everybody that: starting from version 2.18, only Eddie Desktop edition GUI is written in C# - all the backend is written in C++ (including Windows edition) Linux and Mac users who don't want to have to do anything with Mono can run Hummingbird which is tiny, fast, free and open source software, using OpenVPN3-AirVPN library according to our roadmap we will release (planned within April 2020) a daemon for Linux and macOS written in C++ and based on OpenVPN3-AirVPN library the mentioned daemon will be fully integrated with AirVPN and documented to provide the knowledge to write a client for it. AirVPN will release a command line client and a Qt based client with a full featured GUI Due to its instability and psycho design in Android, Mono was abandoned before first Eddie Android edition stable version was released. More precisely Mono was disavowed by 1.0 RC 5. Changelog 1.0 RC 5 (VC 8) - Release date: 21 September 2018 by ProMIND - [ProMIND] Complete porting and rewrite in Java language. As for mono, C#, libmonosgen and libmonodroid: "so long, and thanks for all the fish" Kind regards

Hello! Our referral system conditions have been updated today, 08/Apr/20. Please check referral conditions here: https://airvpn.org/faq/referrals/ Do not hesitate to contact us privately for any clarification. Kind regards

This topic is closed. Anyone still having some issue can continue in the following, new thread: https://airvpn.org/forums/topic/46329-eddie-desktop-219beta-released/

Hello! Your Eddie version is several years old (thanks for having picked AirVPN since a long ago!) and is causing the problem. Please upgrade Eddie and the problem should get resolved. You can download Eddie latest stable release (currently 2.18.9) for Windows here: https://airvpn.org/windows Kind regards

This version contains some bug fixes (in Windows and some OS X and macOS versions) we discovered after 2.18.9 stable version had been released. You don't need to download it if you don't have any issue with the latest stable release. Version 2.19.0 (Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:11:42 +0000) [bugfix] - Windows, Custom DNS [change] - Windows, DNS, switch only UP network adapter [bugfix] - MacOS, fix PKG package (relocation disabled) [bugfix] - MacOS, fix signature issue with older Yosemite

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new Eddie Air client version has been released: 2.19beta. It is ready for public beta testing. How to test our experimental release: Go to download page of your OS Click on Other versions Click on Experimental Look at the changelog if you wish Download and install Please see the changelog: https://eddie.website/changelog/?software=client&format=html PLEASE CONSIDER THIS AS A BETA VERSION. Don't use it for real connection, it's only for those who want to collaborate to the project as beta-tester.

@Maddog77 Hello! Can you tell us your Linux distribution name and exact version? Both OpenVPN and curl appear old. Please upgrade OpenVPN and curl, or consider to upgrade the distribution itself, and the problem should be solved. In reality, if you don't need tls-crypt and IPv6, you can still run OpenVPN 2.3.10. However curl needs an update as your version (which is invoked by Eddie) seems unable to support the latest TLS requirements by our servers. Alternatively you can avoid to use Eddie and run OpenVPN directly, but you will lose all the additional features Eddie is packed with. Hummingbird (another free and open source software by AirVPN) might or might not be a viable option, it depends on how old glibc and other libraries are in your system. One of the oldest Linux distributions that can run Hummingbird is Debian 9, which features really archaic and obsolete software & kernel, in line with Debian philosophy, so it's possible that your distribution can run it too. Kind regards

@Berlingo Hello! Can you please check your Eddie version? If it's older than 2.18.9 please upgrade and test again. You can download Eddie latest stable release (currently 2.18.9) for Windows here: https://airvpn.org/windows You can download Eddie latest stable release (currently 2.18.9) for Linux here: https://airvpn.org/linux You can download Eddie latest stable release (currently 2.18.9) for Mac here: https://airvpn.org/macos Kind regards

@Genje Hello! Does the port exist in your system, i.e. does the listening service listen to the correct interface and correct port (it must not bind to the physical network interface)? What is the software that must receive the forwarded packets? Kind regards

Hello and thank you for your choice! Your Eddie version is very old. Please upgrade Eddie and the problem should be resolved. You can download Eddie latest stable release for Windows here: https://airvpn.org/windows You can download Eddie latest stable release for Linux here: https://airvpn.org/linux You can download Eddie latest stable release for Mac here: https://airvpn.org/macos Kind regards

Hello! You can't remotely forward inbound ports under 2048 in our service. Port 1122 is not, and has never been, forwarded to your node. Please also note that port 1122 is not even a "remapped" destination port for your client. Thus, perhaps, all the problems are caused by a single, trivial error, i.e. a wrong port number assumption. Kind regards

Released as stable here . Any pending issue (please remind us below) will be addressed in the next beta 2.19,

Hello! OK. You can't do that with your setup as you would end up with conflicting/overwriting routes and gateway. Windows does not support multiple routing tables anyway, so it's worth to consider an alternative solution. As a first consideration, the following setup should meet your needs: create a VM and attach it to the host via NAT connect the host (using Eddie for example, or OpenVPN with an AirVPN profile) to some AirVPN server when the connection from the host to AirVPN is established, connect your guest VM to your own VPN server via OpenVPN and your own OpenVPN profile Traffic from the VM will reach your VPN server through the AirVPN server the host is connected to. Kind regards

Hello! We're very glad to inform you that a new stable release of Eddie is now available for Linux, Mac and Windows. 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 Eddie 2.18.9 has been extensively rewritten to increase speed, stability, security and compatibility with the latest OS versions. It is the outcome of a massive work which took care to meet very many requests from our community and got rid of some issues affecting Eddie previous stable release when running in latest OS releases. Eddie GUI and CLI now run with normal user privileges, while only a "backend" binary, which communicates with the user interface with authentication, gains root/administrator privileges, with important security safeguards in place: stricter 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) will not be launched if they do not belong to a superuser Eddie events are no more run with superuser privileges: instead of trusting blindly user's responsibility and care when dealing with events, now the user is required to explicitly operate to run something with high privileges, if necessary Backend binary has been completely rewritten in C++ on all systems (Windows included), making the whole application faster. On top of that various optimizations have been implemented. Now Eddie provides you with higher responsiveness and an improved overall feel and comfort. CLI version has been improved as well, featuring numerous glitch and bug fixes. Compatibility for macOS Catalina and latest Linux distributions, including DNS handling, has been enhanced. 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 a system key-chain if available. For Windows systems, wintun support has been added. You can now, if you wish so, replace the driver for OpenVPN virtual network interface with the new wintun for higher throughput (OpenVPN 2.5 tech preview required). In Linux and Mac systems, Eddie can also launch Hummingbird, which is very fast and is based on OpenVPN3-AirVPN library, replacing OpenVPN 2.x. In this way you can have at once a GUI for Hummingbird (which lacks it), the usual great amount of features and options Eddie is packed with, and faster connections/disconnections, as OpenVPN3-AirVPN is exceptionally faster than OpenVPN 2 during connection and disconnection phases. Eddie 2.18.9 can be downloaded here: https://airvpn.org/linux - Linux version https://airvpn.org/macos - Mac version https://airvpn.org/windows - Windows version Eddie 2.18.9 is free and open source software released under GPLv3. Source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/AirVPN/Eddie Eddie 2.18 changelog shows you the massive work behind it and all those implemented changes that remained necessarily not mentioned in this announcement. Complete changelog can be found here. Kind regards & datalove AirVPN Staff Version 2.18.9 (Thu, 02 Apr 2020 12:14:10 +0000) [add] - Windows - Added DotNet 4.5 check & install in Installer edition [bugfix] - Linux - Resolved an elevation issue in some Linux distribution (Raspbian mainly) [bugfix] - Fixed a bug that intermittently ignores --connect Version 2.18.8 (Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:59:48 +0000) [bugfix] Windows - Support of OpenVPN2.5 tech-preview (also with new wintun driver) [bugfix] MacOS - -mmacosx-version-min=10.9 on all binary [bugfix] Service reinstalls automatically when version-incompatibility detected [change] Code cleanup for stable release [change] Enforcement of operation allowed by Elevation [change] Enforcement of service checking [change] Windows - Elevated converted from C# to C++ [change] Little score adjustment in UI [change] Better feedback in CLI edition (mainly latency check steps) [new] Linux - enabled CLI-only packages in all editions [change] Minor changes Version 2.18.7 (Wed, 29 Jan 2020 13:54:35 +0000) [bugfix] - Update notification for beta versions [bugfix] - Windows - Message when driver installation is denied [bugfix] - macOS - Fix of error "hummingbird not allowed: Not owned by root". [bugfix] - Linux - Fix of error "Client not allowed: [...] parent process (spot mode)", CLI edition with sudo [bugfix] - Fix of error "Failed to connect to ... port 89: Connection refused" when using Hummingbird in SSL/SSH mode [bugfix] - Better exception management to avoid some crash (especially when related to Mono) [bugfix] - Linux - Arch deployment and AUR management [bugfix] - Tor Cookie/Password detection in every supported OS [bugfix] - Updated 'curl' binary in Windows and CA file [change] - macOS - Minor info.plist update in CLI edition [change] - Windows/Linux - OpenVPN Management skip [change] - In 'Latency mode', now load and users have minor impact on score. Version 2.18.6 (Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:46:48 +0000) [change] Bug fixes and code cleanup [change] OpenVPN 2.4.8 [change] Windows - Tap driver (Win7-Win10) upgraded from 9.23.3-i601 to 9.24.2-i601 [new] New option 'Skip promotional messages'. [change] macOS - New menubar icons [bugfix] macOS - 'Rules not loaded' in some environment [change] Hummingbird integration (experimental) Version 2.18.5 (Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:03:32 +0000) [new] Linux - systemd service [change] Code cleanup for stable release [bugfix] Windows - Service installation issue in Windows 7 [bugfix] Windows - SSL connections [bugfix] Suppression of some unwanted elevated log [bugfix] Windows bug 'Do you want to reset Eddie to default settings?' [bugfix] Fix for occasional error on exit, 'Object reference not set to an instance of an object'. Version 2.18.4 (Wed, 02 Oct 2019 18:20:00 +0000) [bugfix] OpenVPN > Error: Not supported OpenVPN config [bugfix] Linux - Crash "Unexpected crash of elevated helper:Elevated communication closed" during IPv6 block, if IPv6 not available [bugfix] macOS - Autorestart service if upgraded, avoid error "unknown command" [bugfix] Enforce Elevated compatibility check [change] macOS - KeepAlive in launchd [change] Minor changes [new] New deploy/build scripts Version 2.18.3 (Fri, 27 Sep 2019 11:07:42 +0000) [change] Switched 'ping' method in Linux and macOS [change] Code cleanup [change] macOS - Direct invocation with AuthorizationExecuteWithPrivileges for superuser privileges [change] Linux - "Minimize to tray" false by default [change] Linux - Mono, Portable and AppImage editions [change] Minor UI improvements [change] Better log of issues [change] Better log of dns flush actions [bugfix] Linux - Icon and Window glitch in KDE [bugfix] macOS - SSH connection [bugfix] macOS - Show/Hide Main Window issues [bugfix] OS Keyring conflicts with multiple profiles [bugfix] Linux - Raspberry, ARMHF build, fixed issue 'file_getasroot' [bugfix] Linux - Fixed a fatal crash with some UI tray icon issues [bugfix] Linux - Detect and use iptables-legacy (nft transition) [bugfix] Linux - Fixed a SSL connection issue (related to error 'Cannot create pid file') [bugfix] Parser of OpenVPN version [new] Linux - WM_CLASS registration [new] Linux - New IPv6 block [new] Latency test only about servers in whitelist [deprecated] Option "Remove Default Gateway" (routes.remove_default) removed [deprecated] Windows - Option "Switch DHCP to Static" (windows.dhcp_disable) removed Version 2.18.2 (Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:59:45 +0000) [change] Linux - FIxed a Lintian error on some distributions [bugfix] Linux - Netlock issue if IPv6 is disabled via GRUB ('Address family not supported by protocol' error) [bugfix] Linux - Sometimes Eddie doesn't close [bugfix] Linux - Arch issue with elevation, also restored .xz packages [bugfix] Windows - Issues with username with spaces [bugfix] macOS - Dump PF output and file in logs in case of failure [change] macOS - Notifications, better layout with icons [change] Added Boost in Libraries [bugfix] Minor UI changes Version 2.18.1 (Wed, 11 Sep 2019 09:11:31 +0000) [change] Core Engine partially rewritten [new] UI doesn't run as root anymore in every OS [new] Profile data encryption in any OS, either through OS keychain if available or "master" password [bugfix] Linux - DNS resolv.conf issue [change] New formula to compute "best server" [bugfix] Windows - Windows10 SSH [new] No log for inconsistent cipher or keysize directives when used with custom Data Channel cipher [bugfix] Linux - Flush DNS with systemd-resolve [change] Linux - Better performance when netlock is activated at application start [change] Windows - Tun driver updated to 9.23.3 [change] OpenVPN 2.4.7 [change] Removed TOS window. [removed] Linux - resolvconf DNS switch method [removed] Insecure OpenVPN directives [new] binaries run with root privileges must belong to superuser Version 2.17.2 (Sun, 23 Sep 2018 11:55:26 +0000) [bugfix] macOS/Linux - Crash at boot if Network Lock is active Version 2.17.1 (Sat, 22 Sep 2018 13:19:08 +0000) [change] Better Lifebelt Test network report [bugfix] Windows - Recovery issue about routes (slowdown, no security issue) [bugfix] Misc UX fixes [bugfix] IPv6 route check failure with OpenVPN versions older than 2.4 [change] Force usage of .Net Framework >=4 in every Windows OS [bugfix] Improved check of custom directive names [new] New option "netlock.allow_dhcp" true by default [bugfix] Multiple "Bootstrap failed" windows [new] New Eddie version notification [change] Linux - Faster Network lock (build iptables-save format and apply directly) [bugfix] Linux - Flush DNS in some distro [bugfix] Linux - Glitch on black window when minimized in some distro (tested in Ubuntu 18.04) [change] macOS - Better detection of DNS servers in DHCP mode

@juancarlos101 Hello! Please allow at least one hour and a half during the current period to receive an answer from the support team, thank you for your patience. To everybody: we expect that the average response time to tickets will be even higher in the near future, so don't get upset if you need to wait 2-3 hours, thank you for your understanding. Kind regards