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AdGuard Home vs SoftEther VPN
A side-by-side editorial comparison of AdGuard Home and SoftEther VPN — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
AdGuard Home vs SoftEther VPN: at a glance
What is AdGuard Home?
AdGuard Home's stable line takes a Go security update and turns off Multipath TCP.
AdGuard Home v0.107.80 is a security release on the stable line: it moves to the Go version with the 1.27.3 fixes, disables Multipath TCP support to avoid CVE-2026-98432, and drops macOS 13 Ventura as a consequence of Go 1.27. The beta channel moved to the new UI and v1.0.0 numbering at the end of September, with v1.0.0-b.1 as the first build.
What is SoftEther VPN?
Post-quantum key exchange landed, then the release train went quiet.
SoftEther's 5.x line ships infrequently — six tags spread across 2023 to 2025, most of them merge-commit version bumps with no release notes. The one substantive entry in this window, 5.2.5188, folded liboqs and oqs-provider submodule updates in to add X25519MLKEM768, the NIST hybrid post-quantum key exchange. Everything around it is build plumbing: FreeBSD and macOS CI images, Linux artifact publishing, Docker machinery moved into the main repo.
AdGuard Home vs SoftEther VPN: editorial side-by-side
AdGuard Home
2.5INFRA · APIS
AdGuard Home's stable line takes a Go security update and turns off Multipath TCP.
◆ Current state
AdGuard Home v0.107.80 is a security release on the stable line: it moves to the Go version with the 1.27.3 fixes, disables Multipath TCP support to avoid CVE-2026-98432, and drops macOS 13 Ventura as a consequence of Go 1.27. The beta channel moved to the new UI and v1.0.0 numbering at the end of September, with v1.0.0-b.1 as the first build.
◆ Where it's heading
Two tracks run in parallel: a stable 0.107 line that ships mostly security and dependency updates, and a beta line that has become v1.0.0 and carries the new UI. Platform support is now set by Go's own requirements, as the macOS 13 removal shows on both lines.
◆ Prediction
The next visible moves are likely further v1.0.0 betas and continued 0.107 security releases; the entries do not show when 1.0 reaches stable.
SoftEther VPN
0.0INFRA · APIS
Post-quantum key exchange landed, then the release train went quiet.
◆ Current state
SoftEther's 5.x line ships infrequently — six tags spread across 2023 to 2025, most of them merge-commit version bumps with no release notes. The one substantive entry in this window, 5.2.5188, folded liboqs and oqs-provider submodule updates in to add X25519MLKEM768, the NIST hybrid post-quantum key exchange. Everything around it is build plumbing: FreeBSD and macOS CI images, Linux artifact publishing, Docker machinery moved into the main repo.
◆ Where it's heading
The work is drifting from protocol features toward build and supply-chain hygiene, and the crypto addition arrived through submodule updates rather than in-house design. Release notes are thin enough that several tags credit contributors without describing what changed. With the newest entry now over a year old, this reads as a maintenance-paced project carried by a small group of contributors.
◆ Prediction
If the pattern holds, the next tag is another accumulation of CI and dependency work, with post-quantum defaults tightening as liboqs moves upstream. The entries give no signal of a new protocol or management-plane direction.
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Recent activity from AdGuard Home and SoftEther VPN
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoAdGuard Home0.107.80 disables Multipath TCP for a CVE and drops macOS 13
- 1mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta channel moves to the new UI as v1.0.0-b.1
- 1mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.91 fixes DHCP lease persistence and DNS64 chains
- 2mo agoAdGuard HomeAdGuard Home 0.107.79 hardens DNS-over-QUIC against exhaustion
- 3mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.90 carries the DNS-over-QUIC exhaustion fix
- 3mo agoAdGuard HomeBeta b.89 hardens against JIGGLE attacks (GHSA-p5f5-3p5g-rfjw)
- 1y agoSoftEther VPN5.2.5188 adds X25519MLKEM768 post-quantum key exchange ⚡
- 2y agoSoftEther VPN5.02.5187: version bump ahead of the 5187 release
- 2y agoSoftEther VPN5.02.5186 bumps webpack in the admin web UI
- 2y agoSoftEther VPN5.02.5185 fixes DHCP handling and a UDP amplification report
- 2y agoSoftEther VPN5.02.5184: contributor credits, no release notes
- 2y agoSoftEther VPN5.02.5182 corrects a hamcore path separator
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between AdGuard Home and SoftEther VPN?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. AdGuard Home is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is AdGuard Home better than SoftEther VPN?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. AdGuard Home is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Infra & APIs products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to AdGuard Home?
Top AdGuard Home alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "AdGuard Home alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/adguard-home for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to SoftEther VPN?
Top SoftEther VPN alternatives in Infra & APIs are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "SoftEther VPN alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/softether-vpn for the full list with editorial commentary on each.