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Mullvad ships Android VPN 2026.10 with a rotating server globe and automatic multi-hop

Mullvad has released Android VPN app version 2026.10, adding an interactive server globe, automatic multi-hop routing and search fixes. The build is on GitHub only, and Mullvad warns it can break the first connection attempt.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-18 23:18

The build is currently available on GitHub only. Google Play has not listed the upgrade, and Mullvad's own website still shows version 2026.08 as its latest release. The redesign was announced quietly on the cloud platform over the past two days, after features were pushed into beta in August and tested for close to a month before launch.

The most visible change is a rotating globe that marks the server locations available to a user. It can be zoomed, panned and scrolled, and explored region by region to find the exact position of servers; users can also view their own connection routes on it.

Multi-hop, which routes traffic through two servers, now switches on and off on its own. The feature first reached Android in 2025, after desktop and iOS, and previously had to be enabled manually. Under the new version the app activates it when relevant settings call for it — notably when DAITA, a technique that obscures network traffic patterns to resist interception, is enabled and the selected servers do not support it directly. Disabling DAITA returns the app to a single-server connection to save bandwidth.

Mullvad also reworked location search. Results in the "Select location" field are now sorted by relevance to the query, and approximate results are returned to catch imperfect matches. The release fixes a handful of bugs, including the sorting of the location list in English and the appearance of previous revocation flags during an API rejection.

The update follows a faulty release. Two days before 2026.10, Mullvad published version 2026.09, which contained an error that could leave the tunnel stuck connecting and disconnecting when the QUIC obfuscator is used, freezing the tunnel state machine and forcing users to restart the app. Version 2026.10 fixes that fault, and Mullvad told users to abandon version 09.

The company also warned that 2026.10 may cause the first connection attempt to fail when features such as quantum-resistant tunnels or DAITA are in use. A future release is expected soon to address it.

Mullvad is based in Sweden and is one of the few VPN providers that still accepts cash payments. Its app blocks ads and malicious domains, and the company positions itself around anonymity and transparency — the same posture it took in flagging the known fault in the new build.