The new free ProtonVPN client for Linux has been released. Version 2.0 has been completely rewritten from scratch in Python. It's not that the old bash-script client was bad. On the contrary, it had all the essential metrics and even a working kill switch. However, the new client operates better, faster, and much more reliably, and comes with numerous new features.
Key features in the new version:
- Kill switch — allows you to block your main internet connection when the VPN connection drops. Not a byte goes through! The kill switch prevents IP address and DNS request leaks if you get disconnected from the VPN server for any reason.
- Split Tunneling — lets you exclude certain IP addresses from the VPN tunnel. By excluding some IP addresses from your VPN connection, you can browse the internet as if you were in two places at once.
- Performance improvements — the code has been seriously optimized for lighter and more reliable support of Linux platforms. A more stable and faster algorithm will help determine which VPN server provides the highest connection speed.
- Security enhancements — numerous changes have been made to prevent DNS and IPv6 leaks.
Source: linux.org.ru
