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Windscribe 2.15.8 download

Windscribe encrypts your browsing activity, blocks ads, and unblocks entertainment content

This is an older version. The current version is 2.24.13. Windscribe 2.24.13 · Released:

Installer files 2.15.8

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64-bit EXE — — github.com VirusTotal
ARM64 EXE — — github.com VirusTotal

Link and SHA256 come from the Windows Package Manager community manifest. Compare the hash of the downloaded file before running it.

Release notes

Added
- Ability to customize location names.
- Support for local DNS as connected DNS.
- Fedora arm64 build.
Improved
- Client log when unable to retrieve WireGuard config from server.
- Anti-censorship mechanisms.
- IPC communication between the client and helper/service.
- Consistency of install package naming.
- Confusing "No P2P" icon.
- Flag assets.
- UX when unable to connect to the Windscribe helper/service.
- Behavior when the firewall is on and the app exits unexpectedly.
- UX and fixed text overlaps on the static IPs screen.
- Installer language detection to use app language if available on Windows and macOS.
- UX when user connects with split tunneling enabled, but has not approved the macOS network extension.
- Startup time when not docked on macOS.
Fixed
- The app freezing on exit.
- Cursor may not change when a location becomes disabled/enabled.
- Static IP link color may be incorrect.
- Static IP locations that are unavailable are not displayed.
- Window height is cut off if window transitions while being dragged.
- Firewall blocking VPN connections on port 53 on macOS.
- Potential crash at exit on macOS.
- Firewall may be briefly incorrectly disabled after in-app update on Windows and macOS.
- Tool-tip sometimes shows behind main window on macOS.
- Firewall behavior due to Linux iptables 1.8.11 bug.
- Postquantum KEMs not being proposed on Linux.
- Fixed Best Location is chosen incorrectly.
- Fixed exclusive-mode split tunneling fails to exclude host names on Windows.
- Fixed Windows installer buttons are not transparent.
- Fixed specifying a custom MTU value may cause the app to crash on Windows.
- Fixed docked window is sometimes in the wrong position on macOS.
- Fixed ctrld sometimes does not start when using custom DNS on macOS.
- Fixed enabling MAC spoofing causes loss of connection with the helper daemon on Linux.
- Incorrect comparison when importing location renames.
- Custom config name is cut too short.
- Latency bars display 'full strength' when ping information is not available/failed for the location.
- Unhandled -os_restart command-line argument from previous releases on Windows.
- Erroneous 'missing log' warning in merged logs due to Linux not having an installer log.
- Translations for Arabic/Farsi in Decoy Traffic.
Updated
- OpenVPN to 2.6.13.
- Qt to 6.8.3.
- ctrld to 1.4.3.
- liboqs to 0.12.0 and oqs-provider to 0.7.0.
Removed
- Code usage of Qt5 compatibility module.
- -no-drivers argument for Windows installer.
Known Issues
- Split tunneling on macOS 12/13

https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/releases/tag/v2.15.8

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