Proton VPN 2025-2026 fall and winter roadmap

General
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If you’re on our Free plan, the server locations you can use have traditionally been the Netherlands, Japan, Romania, Poland, and the United States. However, you can now connect on most platforms to five more countries worldwide:

  • Mexico
  • Canada
  • Switzerland
  • Norway
  • Singapore

A powerful and flexible new architecture for the VPN service that runs on our apps will deliver a new generation of VPN possibilities. The WireGuard VPN protocol offers ultra-strong security and lightweight speed, but with an ever-growing Proton VPN community and our own ambitious plans for new features and even better VPN performance, we’re rapidly outgrowing the capabilities of the current WireGuard implementation.

To address this, our new VPN architecture will allow us to:

  • Develop faster and more reliable apps
  • Improve our anti-censorship capabilities
  • Deploy new features and improvements across all our apps faster
  • Offer Stealth support on Linux
  • Provide robust post-quantum encryption (in the future)

The Proton VPN CLI will deliver Proton VPN’s trusted encryption and Swiss privacy from the Linux command-line, allowing you to skip the interface and launch secure connections in seconds. You’ll also be able to integrate it into your scripts and pipelines to tailor it to your specific needs (expect these capabilities to grow over time). And as a bonus for our Linux fans, you’ll soon be able to auto-launch our regular Linux app when your system boots up.

You’ll soon enjoy faster load times, easier and more intuitive server selection (including the ability to select individual cities and states in supported countries), better split tunneling, more languages, an improved Android TV app, and more.

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Great new features, I just hoped they would expand coverage of their Linux apps. It is only supported on a few OS (Ubuntu and Fedora as I remember) and on those only select DEs, often GNOME or KDE. It mostly works well on other distros/DEs, but when it doesn’t their customer service doesn’t want to investigate why (they usually don’t look at their Github issues).

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Is there anymore info on this?

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I was curious about this too. They didn’t go into it. I guess we’ll know more when it actually comes out exiting people to immediately start using it.

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More free locations in other parts of the world are a welcome relief. It’s still hard for me to convince people to pay for VPN so this is fantastic news.

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I couldn’t find any more information about it on Proton’s social media channels. Maybe they’ll write another blog post about it.

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The official Proton VPN command-line interface (CLI) is now available in early access!

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Thanks for sharing. Where did you find this?

Also, I still say using iptables and adding those couple lines of code is still the best way to set up VPN with Wireguard with kill switch - like how Mullvad does it. But while this CLI VPN is a good re-release, not releasing it with killswitch kind of feels moot to me.

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From Proton’s Discord server.

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