Improved peer discovery works off the same method as Babel to be less disruptive to surrounding network environments and more efficient.

Improved tunnel management now handles every case where a connection may fail to open or be maintained.

Exit signup improvements, users have to manually sign up for an exit now, but we can reasonably scale without losing Netflix access.

Lots of usability improvements in the dashboard, including connectivity indicators and loading bars on the right parts of the signup process.

x86_64 as an OpenWRT platform, make a big router out of an old desktop!

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Alpha 8 is backwards incompatible!

If you already have a device please update it, or it will stop working. We don’t normally do breaking releases but it was needed for some of these changes.

The new dashboard, notice it now tells you if the exit is alive

I’m especially excited about this release because it’s finally resolving a lot of the issues that have been keeping us from expanding more aggressively in deployments.

Generally the old peer discovery code was pretty high-touch and sometimes required a couple of reboots before it really behaved. In Alpha 8 that’s all but eliminated, as is the tendency to anger older networking equipment with an aggressive peer discovery strategy.

We’re also on stable releases of Rust and OpenWRT for the first time, as the stars aligned to put all the features and device support we need into the stable branches of each project at about the same time.