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The Mullvad Blog

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

New stable release (2020.5)

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The latest Mullvad VPN stable release (2020.5) for Windows, macOS, and Linux addresses findings from our latest external security audit and includes a number of other new items. Read more

Once in Paris (and Zürich)

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It’s not exactly news that our servers with 10GbE network cards are now up and running in both Paris and Zürich. For months you’ve been able to test them out. Meanwhile, we've been testing and improving network connectivity to the point that they’re so optimized that we can announce their existence. Read more

Transparency about minor security vulnerability patched in 2020.4

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A while back we were notified by an external person about a potential privilege escalation attack towards the Windows version of our app. The attack works against 2020.3 and older versions of the app. By the time this blog post is published, the majority of our users have already upgraded to 2020.4 and are thereby already protected. Furthermore, the threat is only relevant if you have a Windows user account named build and you do not want the people that are controlling said account from being able to become administrators on the machine. In summary: This is very likely not an issue for you! Read more

Connection issues mostly resolved

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The problems that prevented many of our users from connecting to the OpenVPN servers over the past weeks have largely been fixed. If you’ve taken a break from Mullvad VPN, give it a try now! Read more