# Proton VPN changelog

> Secures your internet and protects your online privacy

- Vendor: Proton AG
- Category: Productivity
- Official site: https://protonvpn.com/
- Tracked by: What's New (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app)
- Harvested from: Blog (https://github.com/protonvpn/proton-vpn-gtk-app/tags.atom)
- Entries below: 10 (newest first)

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

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## Releases

### v4.17.2

- Date: 2026-08-05
- Version: v4.17.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.17.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.17.2
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — Localization added to the list of locations (state/city).
- **added** — Location names refresher added.
- **added** — Error messages are now translated.
- **fixed** — Missing strings translation fixed.

### v4.17.1

- Date: 2026-07-20
- Version: v4.17.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.17.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.17.1
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — Split tunneling support for ProTun.
- **added** — Localization engine and localization support added to login menu, main VPN view, settings sections (connection, general, account, and features), menu widgets, and country list.
- **added** — Demo framework with screenshotting capability and script to check demos against supported themes.
- **added** — GeneratorBot for localization and .pot generation tooling migrated to devtools.
- **fixed** — Broken versioning.
- **fixed** — Bug with Ctrl+F search not working.
- **changed** — ProTunV1 feature flag now used.

### v4.16.5

- Date: 2026-05-26
- Version: v4.16.5
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.16.5
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.16.5

### v4.16.4

- Date: 2026-05-21
- Version: v4.16.4
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.16.4
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.16.4
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — Enable packet capture.
- **fixed** — Red fonts on VPN error and connection error in Ubuntu 22.
- **fixed** — Migrate to new signal connection system to mitigate leaks and repair broken signals and port forwarding popover removal.

### v4.16.2

- Date: 2026-04-29
- Version: v4.16.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.16.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.16.2
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **fixed** — Search results are now ordered alphabetically.
- **security** — Updated early access toggle.
- **fixed** — Fixed dnf swap command for Fedora.

### v4.16.1

- Date: 2026-04-22
- Version: v4.16.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.16.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.16.1
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — NPS survey response submission.
- **added** — NPS Survey presentation driven by pull notifications.
- **fixed** — Settings changes are not saved.
- **fixed** — UI cosmetics and CSS styling improvements.

### v4.15.3

- Date: 2026-04-14
- Version: v4.15.3
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.15.3
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.15.3
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — Show connected location.
- **added** — Packet Capture groundwork.
- **fixed** — Tray menu state alignment with window visibility and state changes.
- **fixed** — Use a snap friendly bus name to work with the generated apparmor.
- **fixed** — Gracefully fail if without session bus and narrow the scope of dbus exceptions.
- **fixed** — Remove redundant checks for tray detection.

### v4.15.2

- Date: 2026-03-30
- Version: v4.15.2
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.15.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.15.2
- Labels: Machine-generated from commit messages — the vendor published no release notes

- **added** — NPS survey popup.
- **changed** — USA locations are now grouped by states instead of cities.

### v4.15.1

- Date: 2026-03-17
- Version: v4.15.1
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.15.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.15.1

### v4.15.0

- Date: 2026-03-05
- Version: v4.15.0
- Original notes: https://github.com/ProtonVPN/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/tag/v4.15.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/proton-vpn-gtk-app/releases/v4.15.0