In 2026, privacy online is more vital than ever. Around the world, people are facing growing censorship, tighter restrictions, and age verification(fereastră nouă) systems that ask you to hand over personal data just to access everyday websites and services. For these reasons, VPNs have become more than a convenience. For millions of people, they are now an essential tool for privacy, freedom, and unfettered access to the internet.
At Proton VPN, our focus this spring and summer is to make privacy easier to use for everyone. We’re building a faster, more reliable, and more consistent VPN experience across every platform, so staying protected feels seamless, wherever you are.
Unlocking the next generation of performance
As we mentioned in our fall and winter recap, we’ve been working on a new client-side WireGuard® codebase that takes the best parts of our existing codebase and builds on them to unlock the next generation of Proton VPN performance, reliability, and censorship resistance. This modern, flexible VPN core allows us to:
- Build faster, more reliable apps
- Deliver best-in-class, anti-censorship capabilities
- Ship features and improvements more quickly across all our apps
- Lay the groundwork for post-quantum encryption(fereastră nouă)
Beta testing of the new client-side codebase is already available on Android and Windows, and will be coming to macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Linux over the coming months. Although currently experimental, we believe it to be safe and secure in its current form. So if your threat model(fereastră nouă) allows it, we’d love you, our community, to help road-test this big new milestone in Proton VPN’s story.
A sleeker performance on Linux
We’re planning to make your experience smoother when using Proton VPN between devices and platforms. Our team is redesigning our Linux GUI app to give you a more consistent look and feel between apps on different platforms.
The modern, sleek design you know on other platforms will soon be available for Linux. These improvements are coming alongside long-awaited support for the Stealth protocol as part of the new WireGuard codebase. By helping mask VPN traffic, Stealth will make Proton VPN on Linux more private, harder to detect, and better equipped to work on networks that try to restrict or block VPN use.
Stay connected, your way
We recently introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to permanently exclude specific countries, cities, and states from Fastest Country and Random connections on Android. Just set your preferences once, and the app will always pick from locations that actually work for you. Soon, we’ll be making the same connection preferences available on Windows.
Defeat censorship in more countries
At Proton, our mission is to make the internet a better place for everyone. You can now defeat censorship by accessing the web from over 20,000 servers with IP addresses around the world, including multiple new locations. Proton VPN now lets you browse as if you were in one of over 145 counties worldwide.
New locations we’ve added, including in highly restrictive places such as Gabon, Haiti, Lebanon, Kyrgyzstan, Nicaragua, Papua New Guinea, provide you with greater choice and allow ex-pats to connect home, wherever that is.
Proton VPN for Business
As a modern organization, you need simple, centralized control over how your teams connect and work online. That’s why we’re expanding Proton VPN for Business(fereastră nouă) with tools that help IT teams protect employees, reduce risk, and manage devices at scale.
We’re working on giving admins control over the websites and content accessed within their organizations through web filtering policies. In addition, we are building advanced admin controls to enforce always-on VPN and split tunneling across your entire device fleet. We’re also working on a new admin dashboard that will help you stay on top of alerts and get a real-time view of your organization and network from one place.
Making privacy effortless
The future of privacy protection isn’t just stronger encryption or faster protocols. It’s making security simple enough that anyone can use it every day.
That’s what this roadmap is about: removing friction, improving reliability, and giving you the tools you need to stay private and connected in an increasingly challenging online world.
As always, thank you for being part of Proton’s mission to make privacy the default. To learn about exciting new features as they’re released, be sure to check out our latest release notes. And to help test-run these new features so we can fix issues before releasing them to the wider Proton VPN community, be sure to run the early-access (beta) versions of our apps.
To tell us what you think about our recent improvements or to suggest new features you’d like to see, join our community(fereastră nouă). You can also catch us on Reddit(fereastră nouă), Instagram(fereastră nouă), Linkedin(fereastră nouă), and X(fereastră nouă).
