As promised in our fall and winter roadmap, over the last few months we’ve been focusing on delivering features to greatly improve your VPN experience, such as building a new VPN architecture and delivering a Linux CLI. We’ve also made improvements that weren’t originally on our roadmap, such as making NetShield Ad-blocker even more effective.
We’d like to share with you, the Proton community, how this work is going, and to fill you in on any updates you may have missed. We’ll also post our roadmap for spring and summer soon, so be sure to check back in and see what’s coming next.
A new VPN protocol codebase for faster, more reliable apps
We’ve been busy working on an exciting new client‑side WireGuard® codebase that unlocks the next generation of Proton VPN performance, reliability, and censorship resistance. Soon to be available for beta testing on Android and Windows, we’ve already ensured this new codebase means:
- Faster and more reliable apps
- Greatly improved anti-censorship capabilities
- Fewer disconnects and dropouts
Power, precision, and privacy from the Linux terminal
We’ve heard from our community(новое окно) that command-line support matters for Linux users. You can now enjoy Proton VPN’s trusted encryption and Swiss privacy from the Linux terminal, allowing you to skip the graphical interface and launch secure connections in seconds. Our Linux CLI (command-line utility) is built for speed and reliability, providing the fastest way to protect your privacy and manage your VPN without leaving the keyboard.
Available for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Arch, our new Linux CLI now supports a host of advanced features, such as IPv6, moderate NAT, custom DNS, a kill switch, VPN Accelerator, NetShield Ad-blocker, port forwarding, and more.
NetShield Ad-blocker is now six times more powerful
Although it wasn’t part of our original roadmap, we’ve made major improvements to NetShield Ad-blocker, our DNS filtering feature. NetShield has always been highly effective at blocking ads, malware, and tracker domains, and now it blocks six times more ads and trackers than before.
This is because NetShield now blocks subdomains in addition to root domains. For example, instead of just blocking connections to tracker.com(новое окно), NetShield now also blocks connections to api.tracker.com(новое окно) cdn.tracker.com(новое окно), pixel.tracker.com(новое окно), and similar subdomains. As a result, it provides stronger protection for private, secure browsing.
Faster, simpler, more reliable
We’ve also introduced many under-the-hood improvements that make Proton VPN apps more intuitive and easy to use:
- Added support for 6 new languages, bringing the total number of languages supported in all our apps (except Linux) to 35.
- Added City view on Linux, iOS, iPadOS, and macOS (beta), so you can browse and connect to specific cities and states directly from the country list.
- Improved split tunneling and the kill switch on Windows so you can use them together.
- Improved Connection preferences on Android so you can exclude locations when you connect to Fastest.
- Greatly improved startup reliability on the Android app.
Even better for business
Proton VPN for Business continues to expand its feature portfolio for teams and organizations. Over the last few months, we’ve introduced:
- A new VPN + Pass plan aimed at professional users
- Groups: Administrators can create user groups and customize each group’s access to Gateways and shared servers, providing granular control access to sensitive resources based on user identity.
- Support for more MDM providers: Iru, FletDM, SimpleDM, and Workspace ONE.
So what’s next?
To find out more, watch out for our upcoming Proton VPN spring and summer roadmap.
Thank you for supporting our work to make privacy and freedom available to everyone. To tell us what you think about our recent improvements or to suggest new features, join our community(новое окно).
