Mullvad VPN

This release is for desktop only.

Here is a list of all changes since last release 2026.3:

Added

• Add Ukrainian as a new language in the app.
• installer-downloader logs are aggregated by mullvad-problem-report.

Changed

• Update gotatun to 0.8.1.

Windows

• Update wireguard-nt to version 1.1. This retires the Mullvad fork at https://github.com/mullvad/wireguard-nt.

macOS

• Use arch-specific installers to deliver updates. This makes updates around 50% smaller.

Fixed

• Align ciphers for custom shadowsocks API access methods between clients and mullvad-daemon. Any existing, invalid access method is removed with a settings migration.

Linux

• Fix issue where gotatun would fail to start on Linux systems where the IPv6 stack had been disabled.

Windows

• Fix misleading "split tunneling" error when offline.
• Fix unhandled error: "Reached the end of the file. (os error 38)"

Security

• Linux and macOS: Fix management interface socket being created with less restrictive permissions when using MULLVAD_MANAGEMENT_SOCKET_GROUP. This addresses the advisory GHSA-p9rr-wc9m-qmwg.

Linux

• Plug hole in Custom DNS firewall rules for LAN resolvers.

Here is a list of all changes since last stable release android/2026.7:

Added

• Highlight search phrase when searching in Split tunneling.

Changed

• Improve error handling of Google play purchases.
• Move Local network sharing setting into a separate screen.
• Add check for unfinished purchases before logging out.

Fixed

• Fix a crash that occur if the system VPN dialog is missing from OS.
• Add a workaround for DataStore becoming corrupt due to an upstream issue.

Added

• Highlight search phrase when searching in Split tunneling.

Changed

• Improve error handling of Google play purchases.
• Move Local network sharing setting into a separate screen.
• Add check for unfinished purchases before logging out.

Fixed

• Fix a crash that occur if the system VPN dialog is missing from OS.
• Add a workaround for DataStore becoming corrupt due to an upstream issue.

Here is a list of all changes since last stable release android/2026.6:

Fixed

• Fix DAITA performance degradation that occurred when combined with multihop.

This release is for desktop only.

Here is a list of all changes since last stable release 2026.2:

Added

• Add port setting for LWO obfuscation.
• Add list of recent server selections in the select location view.
• Add context menu to locations in the select location view.
• GotaTun is now used as the userspace WireGuard implementation on all desktop platforms, not just macOS. It replaces wireguard-go.

Changed

• Optimize LWO performance. This gives a 1.5 to 3 times speedup in our benchmarks.
• Change default retry connection attempts. LWO is now the third default constraint. The relative order among the following constraints is preserved.

Linux

• Switch memory allocator to jemalloc to reduce fragmentation.
• mullvad-early-boot-blocking.service now waits for local file system to be mounted (After=local-fs.target). This was assumed before, but not required (and is still not required).
• mullvad-daemon now installs the same shutdown handler for SIGHUP as SIGINT and SIGTERM.
• mullvad-daemon now exits without tearing down firewall rules on SIGUSR1. This is used to avoid leaking network traffic when restarting systemd service.

macOS

• Restart the GUI after an update if it was running.
• mullvad-daemon now installs the same shutdown handler for SIGHUP as SIGINT and SIGTERM.

Fixed

• Fix duplicate "Connected"/"Disconnected" desktop notifications caused by the daemon sending multiple consecutive tunnel state events for the same state.
• Fix GUI appearing stuck in "Disconnecting" state when daemon transitions directly from error to disconnected.
• Fix QUIC obfuscation not always being used if relays only had IPv6 addresses for QUIC.
• Fix a bug with Shadowsocks-based API access methods where some ciphers were configurable by Mullvad VPN clients while not being supported by the system service.
• Fix IPv6 addresses not being allowed as endpoints for Socks5 and Shadowsocks API access methods.

Linux

• Fix 'mullvad split-tunnel clear' getting stuck.

Windows

• Fix potential access violation during cleanup on ARM64.
• Fix conflicts caused by some other VPN clients that depend on Mullvad's split tunnel driver. Note that split tunneling still cannot be used simultaneously in different clients.
• Fix timeout when loading split tunnel driver during boot.

Security

• Remove ability for renderer process to execute arbitrary binaries. This is a defence-in-depth measure to ensure that the renderer process does not have any capabilities beyond that of a regular user of the app. Affects platforms with the in-app updates feature, i.e. macOS and Windows. Fixes GHSA-h72f-j6r4-c3jc

Here is a list of changes since last release 1.2.0:

Changed

• Write logs to mullvad_paths::logs::frontend_log_dir instead of a temporary directory.
• Redact working directory from logs.

Here is a list of all changes since last stable release android/2026.5:

Fixed

• If the device is revoked and there is no time left on the account, it will now correctly show as revoked instead of out of time on app start.

Changed

• Optimize LWO performance, substantially reducing its performance overhead compared to unobfuscated WireGuard.
• Change default retry connection attempts. LWO is now the third default constraint. The relative order among the following constraints is preserved.
• New design for the login screen
• Move DNS content blockers and Custom DNS setting into a new screen called DNS settings.

This release is for desktop only.

Here is a list of all changes since last release 2026.3-beta2:

Fixed

• Custom lists become scrollable when enough custom lists have been created.

Windows

• Fix edge case in race condition fix from 2026.3-beta2.

Fixed

• If the device is revoked and there is no time left on the account, it will now correctly show as revoked instead of out of time on app start.

Changed

• Improved DNS settings screen UI.

This release is for desktop only.

Here is a list of all changes since last release 2026.3-beta1:

Fixed

Linux

• Fix page size issue in 2026.3-beta1 on some ARM64 systems.

macOS

• Fix socket option error in 2026.3-beta1 that could cause connecting to fail.

Windows

• Fix timeout when loading split tunnel driver during boot.
• Fix race condition in 2026-3.beta1 that could result in inability to create tunnel interface.