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[Staff]

UPGRADE COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY

 

Hello!

We're glad to inform you that a major system upgrade will take place during Sunday, 13 April 2014, 21:00:00 - Sunday, 13 April 2014, 22:00:00 UTC
This upgrade has a triple, important purpose: close any possible exploitation chance, regardless of how unlikely it could be, deriving from past "Heartbleed" vulnerability, bring AirVPN in an even higher security environment and open the road for an important new feature of the service: 3 simultaneous connections per account on different servers (details will be provided soon after the major upgrade which takes precedence).

The upgrade in details

• switch to 4096 bit size RSA and DH keys
• implementation of additional OpenVPN TLS-Auth layer
• re-generation of certificates and keys
• general optimization

During the upgrade all the VPN clients will be forcefully disconnected and will not be able to reconnect. The upgrade will take approximately 30 minutes.

Disconnections will occur on all servers from-to:
Sunday, 13 April 2014, 21:00:00 - Sunday, 13 April 2014, 22:00:00 UTC

that is:

Sunday, 13 April 2014, 14:00:00 - Sunday, 13 April 2014, 15:00:00 PDT
Sunday, 13 April 2014, 16:00:00 - Sunday, 13 April 2014, 17:00:00 CDT
Sunday, 13 April 2014, 17:00:00 - Sunday, 13 April 2014, 18:00:00 EDT
Sunday, 13 April 2014, 23:00:00 - Monday, 14 April 2014, 00:00:00 CEST
Monday, 14 April 2014, 06:00:00 - Monday, 14 April 2014, 07:00:00 JST

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Mandatory actions

After the upgrade, customers running the Air client for Windows will need to shut down and restart the Air client. It is assumed that customers have already downloaded the new package for Windows which includes OpenVPN with non-vulnerable OpenSSL, available here https://airvpn.org/windows and installed the new OpenVPN version.

Customers running any other OpenVPN wrapper or OpenVPN will need to re-download configuration, certificates and keys files.

Additional information for customers running manually configured wrappers:

• the "TLS-Cipher" or equivalent name in your configuration becomes: TLS-DHE-RSA-WITH-AES-256-CBC-SHA
• in Tomato, DD-WRT, pfSense, Fritz!Box etc., the client certificate, the server certificate, the client key and the TLS key must be pasted again (after they have been generated and downloaded from the Configuration Generator as usual) in the appropriate fields of your configuration

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information.

Kind regards
AirVPN Staff

[pfSense_fan]

Excellent, excellent news!

 

Will we only be able to generate the new config files and keys after the disconnect?

[6501166996442015]

I know you said you will provide details afterwards, but I am really curious as to what this will mean for the 4mb minimum bandwidth & future pricing.

 

 and open the road for an important new feature of the service: 3 simultaneous connections per account on different servers (details will be provided soon after the major upgrade which takes precedence).

[Staff]

Excellent, excellent news!

 

Will we only be able to generate the new config files and keys after the disconnect?

 

Hello!

 

Yes, that's correct. Only AFTER the end of the upgrade.

 

Kind regards

[dwright]

This is a dream come true, I feel like throwing a party.

[vpnair33]

This is a dream come true, I feel like throwing a party.

[JD Hopps]

Great news AirVPN! Keep up the great work!

[airvpn4ever]

Excellent news, keep up the good work!

[dd79]

I like the part about 3 connections

[giganerd]

open the road for an important new feature of the service: 3 simultaneous connections per account on different servers

 

This is going to be very interesting.

 

switch to 4096 bit size RSA and DH keys

 

Could you provide a few more details on why you choose to switch to 4096 bit RSA keys?

[bubbba]

The 3 simultaneous connections per account on different servers sound wonderful, so why did I purchase a second account recently? Glad about the complete Key/Cert change. Keep up the great work...

 

Regards,

 

Bubbba

[PirateParty]

Awesome news from you guys. Happy to hear that key sizes are being increased from a suggestion I made earlier when I joined. And the part about 3 connections is awesome and I am very excited for it. Keep up the good work and keep on doing what you do best 

[foxbat]

3 simultaneous connections!   I think im going to wet myself.....ooops too late. 

[foxwood]

There's obvious advantages to having 3 simultaneous connections (albeit this is already possible if your router is vpn enabled), but can anyone please answer what advantages would there be in having your simultaneous connections on different servers?

[24FWgGC]

Thank you for upgrading all of this so quickly!

I do notice that OpenVPN has now released version 2.3.3, however AirVPN is hosting the 2.3.2 quickfix that was released the other day. Updates moving quickly these days.

[McLoEa]

Va bene!

[airvpnusercoin]

Great to see the new features. As I am telling everybody AirVPN is the most trustable VPN provider ever. Never saw stable and fast connections like here and the support team is excellent and always kindly.

[the1bobcat]

Excellent product getting better. Thank you.

[ZPKZ]

Never been this happy about downtime

[sony_15]

Great to see the new features. As I am telling everybody AirVPN is the most trustable VPN provider ever. Never saw stable and fast connections like here and the support team is excellent and always kindly.

Couldn't agree more. That's why after testing other VPN this one is miles ahead in all possible elements, like speed, security, support and privacy policy from others.