VPeeN 4.6.0 — Turbo ⚡

⚡ The speed release

v4.5.0 Velocity removed the handshake tax in theory — v4.6.0 Turbo makes it land on your page loads, and adds the one thing no client-side proxy could honestly claim before: a measured, server-side quality signal for picking the exit server.

Measured on the real free network (region nl, 6 sequential connections — the shape of one browser page load):

Metric	v4.5-like cold path	v4.6.0 Turbo	Gain
Connection setup (avg)	1309 ms	386 ms	3.4× faster
Whole 6-connection burst	36.8 s	13.0 s	2.8× faster
Effective throughput	42 KiB/s	119 KiB/s	2.8×

Reproduce it yourself: python3 scripts/test_real_speed.py nl

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🚀 What actually changed

• Fixed the 1/N pool-hit bug — the warm pool only matched the round-robin cursor's server, so with 3 servers two thirds of every browsing burst still paid the full TCP+TLS+CONNECT handshake. Every connection now takes the newest warm connection, whatever server it belongs to.
• Pool 4 → 12, filled in parallel waves — and pre-warming starts the moment you press connect, so the first page load is fast now too, not just the tenth.
• Throughput ranking — the server-side signal 📡 — at connect time each top server is measured with a real 128 KiB download through its own tunnel; the best-bandwidth server wins, not merely the lowest-ping one. Re-measured every 60 s. (This is the strongest server-side quality pull a client can make.)
• Handshake concurrency 8 → 12, macOS 512 KiB socket buffers, faster Happy-Eyeballs stagger (150 ms), DNS cache TTL 60 s, N warm live in the stats line + a warm-pool health log every 30 s.

🍏 macOS users — first launch (fixes #1)

The app is free open-source software without a paid Apple Developer certificate, so Gatekeeper on Sequoia/Tahoe 26 shows "Apple could not verify…". It is a warning, not a defect:

1. Try to open the app once → System Settings → Privacy & Security → scroll down → “Open Anyway”. Once. Done forever.
2. Or in Terminal: xattr -cr /Applications/VPeeN.app

This release's macOS builds are also ad-hoc code-signed, which removes the "damaged copy" failure mode.

🧩 Chrome extension — VPeeN Bridge (fixes #2)

New in every release: VPeeN-Chrome-Extension.zip — a 2-permission MV3 extension (proxy, storage) that routes all of Chrome through the local VPeeN SOCKS5 tunnel with one click, remote DNS and the same localhost/LAN bypass list as the desktop app. Unzip → chrome://extensions → Developer mode → Load unpacked.

✅ Verification

• scripts/test_speed_pass.py — 25/25 (5 new checks for the Turbo paths)
• scripts/test_vpeen_fixes.py — 59/59
• scripts/test_vpeen_integration.py — 11/11
• scripts/test_webui_demo.py — 23/23
• Real-network A/B benchmark — the table above

Full changelog: CHANGELOG-v4.6.0.md · Compare: v4.5.0...v4.6.0

📥 Downloads

File	OS
VPeeN-4.6.0-Windows.zip	Windows 10/11
VPeeN-4.6.0-macOS.zip	macOS 10.13+ (see the Gatekeeper note)
VPeeN-4.6.0-Linux.tar.gz	Linux x64
VPeeN-Chrome-Extension.zip	Chrome 108+