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DNS leaks on Windows 8, 8.1 and 10

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It has recently come to our attention that the DNS resolution mechanism in Windows 8 and newer can potentially leak DNS queries outside of the VPN tunnel. In these versions of Windows, DNS queries are sent to all interfaces simultaneously. Even if the tunnel is the default gateway, all other interfaces will also send out the same DNS query outside of the tunnel. Read more

iOS 9 problems

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OpenVPN on iOS 9 will appear to connect properly but your IP will not change, meaning you will not be protected even though OpenVPN connect reports that you are connected. Read more

Windows encoding issues

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There is an encoding bug in our windows client that mostly affects users with non-english system language. Those who are affected will get an error similar to this: Read more

Version 52 issues on Windows

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With the release of version 52 we introduced a bug which causes our client to crash if the Windows firewall is disabled. To resolve this, please enable the Windows firewall. Read more

Windows 10 problems

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By default the Mullvad client and older OpenVPN clients will not work on Windows 10 and return the error "There are no TAP-Windows adapters on this system". This is because the installation of the OpenVPN TUN/TAP driver results in registry entries that are incorrect. This has been an issue in preview builds of Windows 10 as well and we were awaiting the stable release to see if the issue persisted. It did. Read more