Viscosity is een door SparkLabs ontwikkelde OpenVPN-client voor macOS- en Windows-systemen. Het programma maakt het op een eenvoudige manier mogelijk om vpn-connecties aan te maken, te bewerken en te beheren. De ontwikkelaars hebben vorige maand versie 1.9 voor zowel macOS als Windows uitgebracht. De bijbehorende aankondiging ziet er als volgt uit: Viscosity For Mac & Windows: Version 1.9 Viscosity 1.9 is now available for both macOS and Windows! This is one of our biggest updates yet, with significant changes under-the-hood and many new features. One of the most anticipated additions in version 1.9 is support for macOS 11 (Big Sur). Viscosity now supports and integrates with macOS 11, and all of Viscosity’s existing functionality is fully supported (including TAP support – more on that below). We’ve also ported Viscosity to have complete native support for the upcoming Apple Silicon (ARM) Macs. Viscosity and your VPN connections will run at native speed to take full advantage of the new processor architecture and power savings. Version 1.9 also introduces driverless TAP (bridged) connection support on macOS. This is something we are particularly enthusiastic about: if you use TAP (bridged) OpenVPN connections you’ll no longer need to manually approve a kernel extension to load before you’re able to connect. This will also make deployment much easier in enterprise environments. And best of all, our approach fully supports macOS 11. On the Windows side, version 1.9 introduces a brand-new VPN network adapter driver for Windows 10 2004 and later. This driver has been written from the ground up for modern Windows 10 machines. It does away with using legacy system frameworks to help optimise performance and lower resource usage. It also includes privacy improvements, such as generating a random ethernet (MAC) address each time you connect, as well as better support for custom MTU values and custom MAC addresses (using the lladdr command) for TAP connections. A common request from Viscosity power users is for more powerful scripting support, and we’re pleased to be able to say we’ve done just that. Both AppleScript scripts on macOS, and Batch scripts on Windows now have access to connection details, making it easier to write scripts that respond to different network changes. This also makes it easier to share scripts between connections, or even different users. It’s now also possible for Before-Connect scripts to return username and password credentials, making it easy to craft custom authentication prompts, integrate with custom authentication systems, or manually handle credential storage. The Windows version also updates the DNS system to improve the reliability of Network Location Awareness (NLA) when connected to a VPN on newer versions of Windows 10. This should resolve an issue where certain applications, such as Microsoft Office, may be unable to use network services while connected. Also addressed in the Windows update is a low-severity security vulnerability that could allow certain libraries to be side-loaded from the same directory when the Windows installer is run. Thank you to Vladimir Dubrovin for reporting this. It’s also important to note that this update drops support for OpenVPN 2.3. Viscosity will still be able to connect to servers running OpenVPN 2.3 or older versions, however OpenVPN 2.4 will now be used client-side. For the vast majority of users no migration changes are needed and connections will automatically work. However if you’ve updated and can no longer connect please refer to our migration guide. Finally, version 1.9 also includes many more small improvements and bug fixes. For further information please refer to the release notes below. Version 1.9 Mac Release Notes:
