Vortix

Release Notes

Bug Fixes

• Fix pkill openvpn killing all system OpenVPN processes instead of only Vortix-managed ones (#95)
• Fix kill switch state file written to world-readable /tmp/ (#96)
• Fix kill switch displaying "Blocking" without root, giving a false sense of security (#97)
• Fix Unicode text input causing panic in text field handlers (#98)
• Add Drop impl on App to clean up kill switch rules and VPN processes on panic (#99)
• Fix disconnect failure leaving app in "Disconnected" state while VPN process may still be running (#100)
• Fix spurious "VPN dropped" auto-reconnect triggered by force-kill
• Fix config viewer overlay not loading file contents on open
• Fix minimum terminal size check causing blank screen on small terminals
• Fix search and rename cursor position on multi-byte UTF-8 input
• Fix mouse events passing through overlays to background panels
• Fix help overlay not being scrollable
• Fix ISP and location text truncated too aggressively on narrow terminals (#104)
• Fix connection details panel mostly empty when disconnected (#102)
• Fix import overlay closing immediately on URL import or empty directory
• Fix g/G/Home/End keys not routing correctly when logs panel is focused
• Fix mouse scroll not working on hovered panel (only worked on focused panel)
• Fix profile names overflowing sidebar column when names are long
• Fix password mask using byte count instead of character count for multi-byte input
• Enable config viewer overlay to be scrollable with mouse
• Fix action menus not listing all available panel actions (Sort, Rename, Filter, Kill Switch)

Features

• Add human-readable connection duration format (e.g., "2h 15m" instead of seconds)
• Add throughput chart with upload/download speed labels and color legend (#103)
• Add active connection badge (checkmark) next to connected profile in sidebar
• Clear stale telemetry data on disconnect to avoid showing previous session info
• Add keyboard accessibility for all panels with Tab/Shift+Tab cycling
• Add panel-specific keyboard shortcuts displayed in context footer
• Add log level filtering (Error/Warn/Info) with f key
• Show protocol tag (WG/OVPN) in cockpit header bar when connected
• Show DNS server provider name (Cloudflare, Google, Quad9) in security panel
• Add confirmation dialog when switching profiles while connected
• Add confirmation dialog when quitting with an active VPN connection
• Add profile sorting (name, protocol, last used) with s key
• Add connection quality thresholds (Poor/Fair/Excellent) based on latency, jitter, and packet loss
• Move toast notifications from bottom-right to top-right for better visibility

Refactor

• Split 2081-line dashboard.rs into 13 focused per-panel modules (#114)
• Extract shared confirmation dialog component to reduce code duplication
• Adopt tempfile crate for panic-safe test cleanup across all 31 test sites (#116)
• Sanitize profile names with strict ASCII-only validation for process management
• Consolidate confirmation dialog input handling into shared handle_confirm_keys
• Route inline key handlers (rename, search, help, log filter) through Message dispatch for TEA consistency

Testing

• Enable 6 previously-ignored auth tests to run without root privileges
• Add 19 new tests covering confirm dialog keys, Home/End panel awareness, profile name sanitization, truncation edge cases, and import overlay behavior
• Migrate all test temp file creation to tempfile crate for automatic cleanup on panic

CI

• Pin Rust 1.91.0 in CI and fix remaining lint issues

Install vortix 0.1.6

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/Harry-kp/vortix/releases/download/v0.1.6/vortix-installer.sh | sh

Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew

brew install Harry-kp/tap/vortix

Install prebuilt binaries into your npm project

npm install @harry-kp/[email protected]

Download vortix 0.1.6

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| vortix-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | Apple Silicon macOS | checksum |
| vortix-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz | Intel macOS | checksum |
| vortix-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | ARM64 Linux | checksum |
| vortix-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.xz | x64 Linux | checksum |
| vortix-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz | ARM64 MUSL Linux | checksum |
| vortix-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz | x64 MUSL Linux | checksum |