Windscribe/Desktop-App v2.15.8

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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

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