Lantern v10.0.1-beta3 Release Notes

Infrastructure

Integrated Soar DNS-tunnel server into Go builds for improved DNS resolution and censorship circumvention capabilities.

Fixed legacy Windows identity adoption to authenticate before startup handoff, ensuring smooth upgrades from older installations.
Added staging migration end-to-end testing for Windows installs.

Replaced dnstt with Soar as the primary DNS tunnel solution for better performance and reliability.
Enhanced UDP bypass routing to operate outside the VPN tunnel for optimized network performance.
Improved packet connection handling with persistent deadlines across reconnects and background route switching.
Refined SOCKS proxy detection to find proxies started by other processes without adding overhead to caller buffers.
Enhanced bypass cancellation logic to interrupt SOCKS handshakes cleanly.
Optimized resolver caching with country-based keying for faster DNS lookups on fresh installs.
Fixed multiple race conditions in connection reopening and packet reading logic.

This is a beta release from commit c0cd5c1.

Branch: v10.0.1-beta3