VpnHood

• Update: UDP has a new protocol; on a server that has not updated to it yet, the app connects without UDP
• Improve: The Android app starts two to four times faster, most of all on budget phones
• Improve: The app draws its screens itself rather than as a web page, and text is easier to read, with more contrast
• Improve: The app no longer needs Android System WebView
• Feature: Always On comes to Windows and Linux: switch it on in Settings, or with the always-on on command on a computer with no desktop, and the VPN connects as the computer starts, before anyone signs in. While the server is out of reach it tries again, waiting longer each time. It stops when you disconnect, when another VPN app takes over, or when the server refuses the connection, and the app says why. On VpnHood! CONNECT it needs premium
• Update: On Windows the VPN runs as a service: it starts with Windows, the connection no longer depends on the window, and the window and its tray no longer ask for administrator rights. The first time you open this version, your settings, profiles, split lists and sign-in move into the service, and your device keeps its identity
• Fix: On Linux, the app no longer connects while /etc/resolv.conf goes around the VPN's DNS, where a DNS server on the local network saw the names you looked up; the installer and the updater link it, and the app's error says what to do
• Improve: On Linux, the installer adds systemd-resolved where the system has no way to set the VPN's DNS, as the app cannot connect without one, and keeps the machine's own DNS server
• Update: On Windows and Linux only an administrator can use the app; on a standard account its window says so
• Update: On Windows and Linux, one VPN app made with VpnHood is connected at a time: connecting another - VpnHood! CLIENT and VpnHood! CONNECT, say - disconnects the first, which says another VPN app took over and stays off, even with Always On, until you connect it again
• Feature: On Windows and Linux, the app from our website updates itself: it downloads each new version in the background and installs it while the VPN is disconnected; Settings > Automatic Updates turns this off. With Always On, the app tells you after a few days, and its Install updates it at once; on a computer with no desktop, the update command does the same
• Feature: The Android app from our website updates itself: "Update now" downloads the version made for your phone's processor, with its progress, and the download goes on while the app is closed; then "Install". Android asks once to let the app install apps. An app installed from a store keeps updating there
• Feature: An access key's file (.cdy) and its link (vh:...) open in VpnHood! CLIENT, which adds its server, chooses it and says so
• Feature: On Windows, an access key's file (.cdy) and its link (vh:...) open in VpnHood! CLIENT, which adds its server, chooses it and says so, as on Android
• Update: Access keys start with vh: rather than vh://, so their links open on iPhone and Mac too; a key given out before still works everywhere, and as a link everywhere but on iPhone and Mac
• Feature: On Linux desktops that show tray icons (KDE, or GNOME with the AppIndicator extension), the app sits in the tray: it shows the connection, connects and disconnects, and closing the window keeps the app there. The tray icon is the app's own, with the connection's state on its corner
• Feature: On Linux the app has an uninstaller: Uninstall on its menu entry's right-click menu, or sudo /opt/VpnHoodClient/vhuninstall (/opt/VpnHoodConnect/vhuninstall for CONNECT). Settings and profiles stay for a later install unless you add -purge
• Feature: In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, usage data stays off until you agree: the first-run page asks once, with a box you tick yourself, on Google Play and after this update too
• Update: VpnHood! CLIENT on Windows, on Linux and from our website shares anonymous usage data as its Google Play build does, and shows

• Update: A VpnHoodServer of your own must run this release or later before this version can connect to it
• Update: UDP has a new protocol; on a server that has not updated to it yet, the app connects without UDP
• Improve: The Android app starts two to four times faster, most of all on budget phones
• Improve: The app draws its screens itself rather than as a web page, and text is easier to read, with more contrast
• Improve: The app no longer needs Android System WebView
• Feature: Always On comes to Windows and Linux: switch it on in Settings, or with the always-on on command on a computer with no desktop, and the VPN connects as the computer starts, before anyone signs in. While the server is out of reach it tries again, waiting longer each time. It stops when you disconnect, when another VPN app takes over, or when the server refuses the connection, and the app says why. On VpnHood! CONNECT it needs premium
• Update: On Windows the VPN runs as a service: it starts with Windows, the connection no longer depends on the window, and the window and its tray no longer ask for administrator rights. The first time you open this version, your settings, profiles, split lists and sign-in move into the service, and your device keeps its identity
• Update: On Windows and Linux only an administrator can use the app; on a standard account its window says so
• Update: On Windows and Linux, one VPN app made with VpnHood is connected at a time: connecting another - VpnHood! CLIENT and VpnHood! CONNECT, say - disconnects the first, which says another VPN app took over and stays off, even with Always On, until you connect it again
• Feature: On Windows and Linux, the app from our website updates itself: it downloads each new version in the background and installs it while the VPN is disconnected; Settings > Automatic Updates turns this off. With Always On, the app tells you after a few days, and its Install updates it at once; on a computer with no desktop, the update command does the same
• Feature: The Android app from our website updates itself: "Update now" downloads the version made for your phone's processor, with its progress, and the download goes on while the app is closed; then "Install". Android asks once to let the app install apps. An app installed from a store keeps updating there
• Feature: An access key's file (.cdy) and its link (vh:...) open in VpnHood! CLIENT, which adds its server, chooses it and says so
• Feature: On Windows, an access key's file (.cdy) and its link (vh:...) open in VpnHood! CLIENT, which adds its server, chooses it and says so, as on Android
• Update: Access keys start with vh: rather than vh://, so their links open on iPhone and Mac too; a key given out before still works everywhere, and as a link everywhere but on iPhone and Mac
• Feature: On Linux desktops that show tray icons (KDE, or GNOME with the AppIndicator extension), the app sits in the tray: it shows the connection, connects and disconnects, and closing the window keeps the app there. The tray icon is the app's own, with the connection's state on its corner
• Feature: On Linux the app has an uninstaller: Uninstall on its menu entry's right-click menu, or sudo /opt/VpnHoodClient/vhuninstall (/opt/VpnHoodConnect/vhuninstall for CONNECT). Settings and profiles stay for a later install unless you add -purge
• Feature: In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, usage data stays off until you agree: the first-run page asks once, with a box you tick yourself, on Google Play and after this update too
• Update: VpnHood! CLIENT on Windows, on Linux and from our website shares anonymous usage data as its Google Play build does, and shows the switch that turns it off in Settings > Privacy
• Update: On a plan with a speed limit, the first megabytes after a pause go at full speed, so pages load quickly, and only steady heavy use is held to the limit
• Fix: Split Local Network does what it says: on, local devices such as a printer or a TV are reached d

• Feature: Support QUIC on All Platfroms
• Feature: Split DNS — DNS queries now follow your split tunneling rules, so bypassed apps and sites resolve outside the tunnel
• Feature: Unrouted IP protection — choose to block or bypass destinations the server cannot route, so traffic never leaks silently
• Feature: Split tunneling master switch — one tap keeps all traffic inside the VPN and blocks what the server cannot carry
• Feature: IPv6 option to block or bypass IPv6 when the server does not support it
• Feature: Built-in report viewer — view and share diagnostic reports right inside the app
• Improve: Android: Quick Launch tile reliability
• Improve: Split tunneling
• Improve: Initialization speed when using split tunneling by country
• Improve: SOCKS & HTTP proxies stability
• Improve: Memory usage & stability
• Fix: A stray UDP packet could permanently stop unrelated UDP flows sharing the same server port
• Fix: UDP flows sending without replies for over a minute could no longer receive responses
• Update: Removed the legacy UDP proxy and the server's UseUdpProxy2 option; the shared UDP proxy is now always used and behaves as a port-restricted NAT
• Update: Changing split-country, split-ip and split-domain filters no longer needs a reconnect

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• Feature: Support QUIC on Windows and Linux
• Feature: Split DNS — DNS queries now follow your split tunneling rules, so bypassed apps and sites resolve outside the tunnel
• Feature: Unrouted IP protection — choose to block or bypass destinations the server cannot route, so traffic never leaks silently
• Feature: Split tunneling master switch — one tap keeps all traffic inside the VPN and blocks what the server cannot carry
• Feature: IPv6 option to block or bypass IPv6 when the server does not support it
• Feature: Built-in report viewer — view and share diagnostic reports right inside the app
• Improve: Android: Quick Launch tile reliability
• Improve: Split tunneling
• Improve: Initialization speed when using split tunneling by country
• Improve: SOCKS & HTTP proxies stability
• Improve: Memory usage & stability
• Fix: A stray UDP packet could permanently stop unrelated UDP flows sharing the same server port
• Fix: UDP flows sending without replies for over a minute could no longer receive responses
• Update: Removed the legacy UDP proxy and the server's UseUdpProxy2 option; the shared UDP proxy is now always used and behaves as a port-restricted NAT
• Update: Changing split-country, split-ip and split-domain filters no longer needs a reconnect

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