Following on from our spring and summer roadmap, we’ve already started on our 2025-2026 fall and winter roadmap. This time, we’re focusing on delivering features that will greatly improve your VPN experience, such as more free server locations, a new VPN architecture, and a Linux CLI.
Whether you’re managing servers from the terminal, streaming securely from your TV, or fine-tuning your connection for work and travel, Proton VPN is becoming faster, lighter, and more tailored to your needs, while staying true to our core values of privacy, transparency, and freedom online.
More privacy for everyone
If you’re on our Free plan, the server locations you can use have traditionally been the Netherlands, Japan, Romania, Poland, and the United States. However, you can now connect on most platforms to five more countries worldwide:
- Mexico
- Canada
- Switzerland
- Norway
- Singapore
This brings the total number of free countries to 10. With these new locations, it’s easier for you to stay private and defeat censorship online, no matter where you are. You may also enjoy faster connection speeds due to the shorter distance your data must travel.
As usual, you’ll be automatically connected to the best free server for your location. But if this isn’t suitable for your needs, you can always change your connection to a different server in a random country.
A new VPN architecture
A powerful and flexible new architecture for the VPN service that runs on our apps will deliver a new generation of VPN possibilities. The WireGuard VPN protocol offers ultra-strong security and lightweight speed, but with an ever-growing Proton VPN community and our own ambitious plans for new features and even better VPN performance, we’re rapidly outgrowing the capabilities of the current WireGuard implementation.
To address this, our new VPN architecture will allow us to:
- Develop faster and more reliable apps
- Improve our anti-censorship capabilities
- Deploy new features and improvements across all our apps faster
- Offer Stealth support on Linux
- Provide robust post-quantum encryption (in the future)
And we’re excited to share the development process with you, the Proton community, as it happens.
Power, precision, and privacy from the Linux terminal
One of your most requested features(new window), the Linux Command-Line Interface (CLI) is a new project that will add more features and improvements as Proton VPN grows. Built for speed and reliability, it will provide the fastest way to protect your privacy and manage your VPN without ever leaving the keyboard.
The Proton VPN CLI will deliver Proton VPN’s trusted encryption and Swiss privacy from the Linux command-line, allowing you to skip the interface and launch secure connections in seconds. You’ll also be able to integrate it into your scripts and pipelines to tailor it to your specific needs (expect these capabilities to grow over time). And as a bonus for our Linux fans, you’ll soon be able to auto-launch our regular Linux app when your system boots up.
Your VPN, your way
You’ll soon enjoy faster load times, easier and more intuitive server selection (including the ability to select individual cities and states in supported countries), better split tunneling, more languages, an improved Android TV app, and more. These numerous small improvements to our service are all aimed at making Proton VPN even more useful and convenient for you to use.
Proton VPN for Business
Cybersecurity isn’t just about keeping attackers out of your network. It’s also about limiting people’s access to only the information, documents, and networks they need to do their work. That’s why our professional customers(new window) are getting a new admin console that provides intuitive access to all Proton VPN’s admin capabilities. This includes the ability to define filtering policies for web traffic, allowing you to block access to categories of online services when connected to your organization’s Gateways.
More granular policies and security controls will also help admins to better secure their organization and tailor Proton VPN to their internal needs. These improvements will lay the groundwork for a more powerful and flexible Proton VPN for Businesses solution, one that balances usability, transparency, and enterprise-grade protection.
We’re here because of you
The features on the 2025–2026 fall and winter roadmap are all about giving you better control, faster speeds, and more choice in how you stay secure online. Every update we ship — from command-line power tools to faster apps and smarter automation — moves Proton VPN closer to the seamless, private internet experience you deserve.
As always, these improvements are built hand-in-hand with our community. Your feedback shapes our direction, your ideas inspire new features, and your trust keeps us focused on building technology that serves people, not profits.
Thank you for being part of Proton’s mission to make privacy the default. To tell us what you think about our recent improvements or to suggest new features you’d like to see, join our community(new window). You can also catch us on Reddit(new window), Instagram(new window), and X(new window).
