This is a preview version of the major update.
With version 2.0, PowerTunnel becomes more than an anti-censorship tool. It is now an extensible proxy server that can be extended with plugins that can be written using the PowerTunnel SDK.
Anti-censorship functionality is still available, it has been split into a pre-installed LibertyTunnel plugin, just like the DNS Resolver with DoH support.
PowerTunnel SDK documentation will be available closer to the stable release.
PowerTunnel has been rewritten from scratch, dozens of bugs have been fixed.
Since this version have many breaking changes, it has a different package identifier, so you can run v1.x and v2.x
Now PowerTunnel-Android is synced with upstream PowerTunnel and contains all other bugfixes and improvements from PowerTunnel v2.0-rc2.
PowerTunnel-Android is now licensed under the GNU GPLv3 License.
Version: 2.0-rc (code 96)
Core version: 2.0-rc2 (code 96)
New features:
- Plugins support with PowerTunnel SDK
- Android 11 Support
- Built-in AdBlocker
You can disable it in Plugin Manager if you don't need it. - LibertyTunnel finally supports blacklist
Previously, since the first PowerTunnel-Android version, anti-censorship module worked in global mode and applied tricks to all domains.
Improvements:
- Improved stability
- Improved performance
- Significantly reduced memory usage
- Significantly reduced CPU usage
- Improved DNS support
- Improved UI appearance
- Improved Quick Settings tile reliability and responsiveness
- Improved VPN app selector performance
- Improved notifications
Bugfixes:
- Fixed an issue when PowerTunnel was not starting by clicking QS tile
- Fixed an issue when Root CA could not be installed
- Fixed an issue when proxy server was crashing after start
- Fixed an issue when VPN was started instead of proxy
- Fixed an issue when VPN app selector was not opening
- Fixed an issue when VPN app selector was crashed after searching
Known issues:
- PowerTunnel does not start after reboot if it was running previously
- Upstream Proxy Authorization preference has wrong title
- Main Activity can show wrong server status
- Quick Tile can show wrong server status
- Built-in AdBlock plugin may impact performance, it can be disabled in Plugins menu
- VPN Service does not stop after connecting to another VPN