Amnezia VPN releases 5.0.3.0 update with Xray-core and TProxy changes

Amnezia VPN is an affordable, privacy-focused service that prioritises security and censorship unblocking over extra features. Its apps are open-source, though they are more basic than some competitors. It offers Free and Premium protection, with Premium billed at $28 for six months and $48 for a year. Users have 14 days to decide whether to keep the service under a money-back guarantee.

Version 5.0.3.0 is not a major feature update. Instead, it emphasises general clean-up, maintenance and connection stability. The XRay protocol, a core component of the proxy used to bypass censorship, has been updated from version 1.3 to 1.4, in line with the adoption of a newer protocol system. Additional support for the TProxy container has also been introduced. The Linux support is useful for routing traffic through the VPN at the transparent proxy level, allowing Linux systems to make traffic appear as if it originates from the user, which makes WireGuard connections more difficult to block.

The update also lets self-hosted users set up a proxy for Telegram by going directly to the Self-hosted section to install it. For Premium users, Amnezia VPN has improved performance when connecting through the VLESS anti-censorship routing protocol. Additional fixes addressed Android warning log levels, self-hosted default values, links and other minor issues.

On the user side, the new release includes a Google Play billing library, added as a small feature component to handle in-app purchases. A new country was also added to the supported dataset. TechRadar described these as minor tweaks intended to improve the user experience.

Amnezia’s anti-censorship work has largely been handled in previous updates designed to strengthen anti-detection capabilities in response to the Russian government’s Internet censorship regime. In June, the open-source VPN said it fixed a bug in its AmneziaWG protocol that had left its infrastructure vulnerable to a coordinated cyberattack allegedly carried out by Russia’s media regulator, Roskomnadzor, or RKN. In August, the VPN updated AmneziaWG again, introducing greater variability in traffic patterns to increase its invisibility against new detection methods. During the same month, it strengthened its blocking capabilities with a mandatory update for Premium and Free users.

That work followed a government crackdown that blocked access to more than 20 widely used privacy services. TechRadar reported that the scale of the attack suggested Roskomnadzor is continuing to develop new and sophisticated ways to filter VPNs. The measures are making it increasingly difficult for citizens to access the free Internet. Recent research showed that users are developing new forms of collaboration to use VPNs and view the associated costs as just as essential as those for mobile Internet and routine bills.