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Keep up to date on developments at Mullvad. News related to our app, security updates, job posts – find it all here.

Version 48 released

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Version 48 is now available for download. It primarily solves an issue with Stop DNS leaks on systems with a non-english Windows install. Read more

Version 47 released

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Version 47 is now available for download. It solves a few DNS leak issues and uses AES-256 as the default encryption cipher. Read more

AES-256 encryption

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The default OpenVPN stream cipher in new clients and new configuration files is now AES-256. When encountering certain connection problems the client program will fall back to Blowfish 128. To use nothing but AES, set "cipher = aes256" in Settings -> Advanced. Read more

WebRTC and anonymity

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It has come to our attention that the new WebRTC standard can be used to expose the real public IP of people connected through a VPN-service. In short WebRTC allows users to have video and audio communications directly in the browser without any plugins installed, IPs being exposed is an unfortunate side-effect of how this works. Read more