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Is this repo still being maintained?
The last commit was 3 months ago, while the windows app was updated 13 days ago.
Hey @ElmoTheWizard
Yes, all repos are being maintained, although it should be noted that we are currently working a new and improved multi-platform client which will support Wireguard and should not be fully dependent on NetworkManager nor keyring backends (as currently we're tied to Gnome-keyring and KWallet). Thus it should allow even more distros to use our official client without having hard dependencies baked in.
Either way, we'll be releasing a couple new features for the current client in the coming weeks, stay tuned :)
PS: Please don't close this issue, as other might find this useful.
@calexandru2018 let distributions get an early preview if possible, so we can adapt our packages :smile:
@calexandru2018 Any updates on this upcoming multi-platform release? Any way we can test it yet?
we are currently working a new and improved multi-platform client
This sounds good. Can we track this new version somewhere? Is it open source?
Either way, we'll be releasing a couple new features for the current client in the coming weeks, stay tuned :)
Four months later and these updates are nowhere to be seen. Are we ever getting Wireguard support? It's over a year since Wireguard support was added for other platforms, whereas Linux users are left waiting with no ETAs or updates in sight.
hopefully this new client brings an flatpak or appimage, many people hate installing stuff from terminal
hopefully this new client brings an flatpak or appimage, many people hate installing stuff from terminal
Flatpaks are terrible for applications with system level integration. I don't think any sort of permission setup will allow it to work.
make the new repo public. I've been waiting for months and I honestly don't care if it's broken. I just need to see something
It's a shame the linux client is basically useless...there is no offficial/easy way to run at boot and I tried lots of stuff.
And with this thread i know this client won't have any future...so probably better for me to cancel my protonvpn and switch to another provider that is more linux friendly !
@Nottt I'm using the Wireguard configurations until the new client is released publicly. It works well enough for now, but the lack of news from the dev team concerns me about how long I'm going to be stuck with this workaround.
Hi, when the new version is available, can you please post info it here?
I watched this topic :-)
It's a shame the linux client is basically useless...there is no offficial/easy way to run at boot and I tried lots of stuff.
And with this thread i know this client won't have any future...so probably better for me to cancel my protonvpn and switch to another provider that is more linux friendly !
mullvad has a great linux client
iVPN has a good linux client as well, and has working UPnP from my experience (for some reason Mullvad did not port forward correctly, even after setting a port online.)
Can't believe it's taking so long for a non-jank linux client, and they are not giving status updates either; Proton looking a little corporate from where I sit, and not in a good way.
Hey, @calexandru2018
~A half year has passed~ Eight months have passed since https://github.com/ProtonVPN/linux-cli/issues/64#issuecomment-1058224569, still no wireguard support, no visible significant development.
It is a real pain to wait without knowing roughly when they are planned to be done. I know you are probably very busy, but can you give us regular updates on the internal progress and development plans?
Hey @jbas23
I'll copy/paste what I've wrote on another ticket:
Apologize for not being much active here, but we're currently working really hard on the new client, so that we don't have the same dependency issues that we currently have.
The idea for the new client is to be as modular as possible, meaning that if someone would like to run native backends instead of 3rd party (ie native openvpn/wg vs NM openvpn/wg ) that would happen transparently. The only difference would be which packages are required (we'll be creating meta-packages that help with installation). Apart from that we're working also on making the applications in general to be much more reliable, and all of this takes time. Initially the rebuild app won't have many features, but we intend in releasing it gradually.
At this current point we have some of the sub-packages written, and we're working mostly in refining (quality and reliability) some of them and at the same time re-writing the apps.
Why not make the project public? Even if it's far from stable, it will make people stop asking about the progress of the new client.