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Mullvad plans to remove support for OpenVPN in little over a year, on 2026-01-15 (mullvad.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by user224@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Support will be removed on both client and server side.

The process of removing OpenVPN from our app starts today and may be completed much earlier.

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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And when exactly did we declare openvpn a legacy protocol?

[–] Rogue@feddit.uk 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

About the same time VPN platforms started migrating away from it

[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I feel like that's kind of a case of circular reasoning though: we move away from it because it's legacy, and it's legacy because we're moving away from it... Mind you, I'm no expert on VPNs; this is just something I thought I'd bring to attention here.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

That's what makes software legacy; it falls out of popularity. Plenty of terminal applications have barely changed since the 80s, but they're not "legacy" because they're actively used and maintained.