Proton Release Notes

Privacy-focused alternatives to Big Tech services have never been more important. In the last year, we’ve significantly built out the Proton ecosystem with more essential tools, including a private AI chat assistant, 2FA app, and encrypted spreadsheets, along with new features for our existing products. Our new private video calling platform and appointment scheduling tool are also now available in a new Workspace plan, a privacy-first suite for business users.

We aim to accelerate this pace of development in 2026, focusing heavily on improvements to our existing services. Our product roadmap for the first half of 2026 includes new features and improvements throughout the Proton ecosystem.

As always, our development strategy is rooted in the feedback you give us through our user feedback platform, on social media, and directly to our team. Because Proton is 100% community supported, your input is critical, so please continue to share your thoughts with us.

Proton Mail

Your mailbox will be getting new updates that make it easier to manage and organize your emails.

Find what you need with category view

To help you take control of your inbox, our new category view automatically categorizes your emails to make it easier to find what you’re looking for. You can choose to categorize by different types: Primary, Social, Promotions, Newsletters, Transactions, and Updates. Categories are enabled by default, but you can turn them on or off in your settings and control notifications, so your inbox stays organized without extra setup.

Manage all your email inboxes from Proton Mail

Working from one inbox makes it much easier to handle emails. To support people who have multiple inboxes with other providers and are in the process of switching to Proton, we’re evolving our Forwarding feature. Soon, you’ll be able to send and receive emails from your existing Gmail email address directly from your new Proton Mail inbox.

While you settle into your Proton Mail account and your old Gmail account is still active, you’ll be able to reply to and send emails from your new Proton Mail inbox without needing to visit your previous provider. Support for more email providers is coming soon.

Content search is coming to mobile

Your Proton Mail mobile app is about to become more powerful: Content searching will help you find emails on your mobile app by searching their full body text as well as their subject lines. This enhanced search capability helps you find things faster without changing how search works from a privacy perspective: Your queries stay on your device, keeping your communications, receipts, attachments, and other data completely confidential.

Proton Calendar

Your next-gen calendar with new features

Proton Calendar is being completely rewritten from scratch to deliver a modern, secure experience that includes long-awaited capabilities like offline mode. We’ll be working on this all year, but we’re already rolling out immediate improvements like appointment booking pages and the ability to set Proton Calendar as your default calendar on Android.

Proton VPN

Between online censorship and concerns around age verification systems collecting personal data, VPNs have never been so important. Protecting your privacy should be easy and accessible to all, which is why we’re focusing on making Proton VPN faster, more reliable, and more consistent across platforms.

Unlocking the next generation of performance

As we mentioned in our fall and winter recap in 2025, we’ve been working on a new client-side WireGuard® codebase. This new codebase means a more reliable and censorship-resistant Proton VPN: Your Proton VPN apps will be faster and more reliable, with improved anti-censorship capabilities, and fewer disconnects and dropouts. Beta testing will be available in the coming months for Windows, Android, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Linux.

A sleeker and more private Proton VPN Linux app

We’re planning to make the user experience smoother when you’re using Proton VPN between devices or platforms. Our team is currently working on visual updates for the Linux GUI app that will give you a more consistent experience between apps on different platforms. The modern, sleek UI you know for other platforms will soon be available for Linux. These improvements are coming alongside long-awaited support for the Stealth protocol as part of the new WireGuard codebase. By helping mask VPN traffic, Stealth will make Proton VPN on Linux more private, harder to detect, and better equipped to work on networks that try to restrict or block VPN use.

Stay connected, your way

Last year, we introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to exclude specific countries and cities from Fastest Country and Random connections permanently for Android. You can set your preferences once, and then your VPN will always pick from locations that actually work for you. Soon, we’re making the same connection preferences available for Windows.

Proton Pass

Keeping your digital identity safe and organized requires a versatile and convenient password manager. That means more storage options and robust autofill capabilities, and new ways to organize and share sensitive information.

Even smarter autofill

Last year, autofill in Proton Pass became more useful with quality of life updates including credit card autofill, auto-type, and HTTP Basic Auth. In the first half of 2026, more improvements are coming for autofill.

iFrame autofill will help your Proton Pass app detect login fields on websites with more complicated layouts, such as online banking or enterprise tools. URL matching, one of our most requested features, will allow Proton Pass to suggest information for the exact website you’re visiting so you won’t need to search for it.

Easier organizing with folders

We’ve been working on the cryptography model that protects your credentials in Proton Pass, which is a prerequisite to offering folders within your vaults. Soon, you’ll be able to sort your items within custom folders, opening up new possibilities for organizing and secure sharing. Your passwords, your notes, your aliases, and more can be organized into categories of your choosing for easier and faster retrieval.

Put your SSH keys to work across devices

Working between multiple devices can be complex when you’re a developer. You can already store your SSH keys in Proton Pass, and soon you’ll be able to use them with an SSH agent to simplify authentication in your Git and SSH workflows. No more manual syncing when you switch devices, plus added security and convenience with biometric unlock for terminal-based authentication.

Read Proton Pass’s spring and summer roadmap

Proton Drive

Ease of use and core functionality are our key focuses for Proton Drive this spring and summer. We’ll be making improvements to Proton Drive that’ll help you upload and download files and photos faster, and work more easily across multiple Proton apps for increased productivity.

Proton Drive is 70% faster and it’s just getting started

Earlier this year, we gave you a progress update about Proton Drive SDK. This project will give you faster and better Proton Drive apps, no matter which platform you’re using.

Since January, you may have noticed that uploading and downloading files and photos on Proton Drive has become significantly faster. Thanks to the progress in building our SDK, downloading shared files is 70% faster and uploading to a shared folder is 30% faster whether you have a Proton Account or not.

In the coming months, we’ll improve performance further and make features more consistent across all of the Proton Drive apps. We’ll be able to add document and folder sync on macOS, which we know many people are eager for. We’ll also working on the highly anticipated Linux app.

Proton Sheets and Proton Docs improvements are in the works

For Proton Docs and Proton Sheets, our focus is on building out their feature and collaboration set, so you can move more of your existing files and workflows out of Big Tech apps.

Since we released Sheets in late 2025, we’ve consistently been making updates and releasing new features. We’ll continue to focus on making improvements to Sheets that give you more power over how you create and manage your spreadsheets.

For Proton Docs, we’ll focus on usability and collaboration features. These updates are essential because they make it easier for you to get work done, whether it’s a solo project or a group effort. Soon you’ll be able to create a table of contents for your Proton Docs, and more updates are coming soon. This will also include shared Drive, one secure, shared storage space giving improved collaboration capabilities to families and businesses.

Enhanced ecosystem integration

We understand that as you move toward privacy-focused apps, you’re moving away from an existing, fully integrated Big Tech ecosystem. To make the transition easier for you, we’re focusing on building our own integrated ecosystem. To make working between different Proton apps more fluid, we’re investigating how we can build closer integration between our tools for faster workflows. We’ll be introducing new integration features in the coming months.

Read Proton Drive’s Q1 recap

Lumo AI

AI assistants shouldn’t advertise products to you, collect your data, or share it with third parties and governments. But those are precisely the risks presented by Big Tech AIs. We developed Lumo last year to provide people and businesses with a private alternative that never trains AI models using your data. Since introducing Lumo, we’re building out tools that make it smarter and better at helping you or your team save time.

A new Lumo update, coming soon

We’re planning to release an update for Lumo that will introduce significant new capabilities. Right now, we’re working on faster speed and performance, and improved mobile apps and additional new features: Watch this space.

Get more done with a desktop Lumo app

Lumo is available on any web browser and mobile device, but we’re developing a desktop app to supercharge your productivity. Lumo for desktop will give you a seamless experience, allowing you to move quickly between your native work tools: email, web, chat apps, and your personal AI assistant. It can be a hub for everything you’re working on, where you can store all your projects and conversations in one encrypted place, and get more context-aware answers for your queries.

A private AI assistant for your platform

For most organizations, building a private AI tool isn’t a feasible. So we’re releasing a Lumo API that will let you add Lumo to your product or software, no matter the size of your platform.

Lumo API offers what Big Tech AI chatbots don’t: a private and secure AI assistant that gives you the benefits of AI without the privacy concerns. Instead of compromising on security, you can build Lumo into your workflows for fully private and trustworthy AI support. With the API, you can also make it easier to use Lumo within other platforms, helping you work smarter and faster.

Moving beyond Big Tech with you, our community

Everything we’ve released in the last year, including our new products and every new feature for our core services, has been possible because of your support. As an independent, European alternative to Big Tech, we see building a private ecosystem of apps as a reclamation of our rights to privacy on the internet and a reminder that there’s a better way to build tech: for people, not profit.

Your investment in our mission is what helps us make better products. Feedback is invaluable to our teams, so let us know in our forums and on Discord, X, Bluesky, Facebook, LinkedIn, Threads, Telegram, Reddit, and UserVoice, or leave us a review in the App Store or Play Store. Thank you for helping us build a more private internet, and we’ll see you in the fall for our next roadmap updates.

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What we launched in fall and winter 2025

Proton Pass is an essential tool for managing credentials and protecting your identity, but it has become much more than that. Now you can use it even for specialized purposes, whether that’s segmenting access to information among teams or managing developer workflows.

This year, we’re continuing to expand the ways you can use Proton Pass, for teams, individuals, and families.

Our latest updates and upcoming features focus on improving usability, adding more control and flexibility to sharing, enhancing the autofill experience, and providing new tools for developers. Proton Pass is becoming more capable and convenient, all without raising prices or compromising on our values of privacy and transparency.

We know that everyone uses Proton Pass differently. For it to be as useful to as many people as possible, we focused on a few core areas last year.

Improved usability and more convenience

When you’re using Proton Pass, the app should help you get your admin done and make your tasks easier. That’s why we focused on improving usability and convenience.

We introduced improvements for autofill, including credit card autofill, auto-type, and HTTP Basic Auth to handle non-standard login dialogs. Right-click menu and offline mode also gave you more options to tailor Proton Pass for your specific needs.

Enhanced security for your browser extension

As a privacy-first business, our tools have to give our users the best protection possible for their sensitive data. We made Pass Monitor accessible through your Proton Pass browser extension so that it’s easier to spot and change your weak and reused passwords and get notifications if you’re affected by a data breach.

Additional privacy updates included the ability to choose a set period of time after which copied passwords are cleared from your clipboard, and being able to create and use passkeys in Safari with the Proton Pass extension.

Secure secret management for developers

To make it a more capable solution for developers who are managing software development, we introduced Proton Pass CLI which enables engineers to access secrets via the terminal.

Personal Access Tokens (PATs) are now supported in the Proton Pass CLI. PATs provide precise control over the secrets that scripts or AI agents have access to within the CLI. You can manage access more easily by granting scoped access to specific vaults to third-party applications or scripts, making Proton Pass a natural fit for managing secrets across your automation and tooling.

Greater access control for teams

Organizations rely on Proton Pass for a lot more than password management, including access management and enforcing security policies for tens, hundreds, or even thousands of users. We focused on making access management easier and faster for admins, while also providing more granular control over security policies.

Groups now make it easier to organize team members or projects, defining access controls at scale. You can share access to vaults and items at the group level rather than the individual level for faster and easier sharing without compromising on security. This simplifies sharing and access management for admins, who can also choose group owners within their organization. Admins can also create policies to ensure that email aliases and secure links are used responsibly and in line with your business’s security policies.

What’s coming this spring and summer

Our focus for the first half of 2026 is to make continual improvements to our core offerings, improving the flexibility and convenience that Proton Pass can offer you. We’re also committed to introducing new features:

Organize your data your way with folders

Folders will be a significant building block for Proton Pass that will go beyond just helping you organize your items. Introducing folders will require some rethinking of our cryptography model, which we’re currently working on. Eventually, you’ll also be able to share folders and subfolders just like your vaults and individual items, giving you another flexible way to share access.

Folders will be available in the coming months. As well as creating vaults, you’ll be able to create dedicated folders and subfolders to organize crucial information for quick retrieval: you can organize by project, by team, by year, or whatever else you need.

Simplify SSH workflows with the SSH agent

The default SSH agent built into your OS isn’t built for convenience and flexibility, so we’re launching an SSH agent that will let you work with the SSH keys stored in your vaults while keeping them automatically in sync wherever you work. You can already keep your SSH keys in Proton Pass, and with the SSH agent, you’ll be able to use them for your Git and SSH workflows, simplifying authentication and making it easier to work across several computers.

Keeping your SSH keys in Proton Pass lets you use them on multiple devices without needing to manually sync them, saving time and effort as you work. Git workflows are much easier when you can simply use biometric unlock for committing or signing, adding an extra layer of security and convenience to terminal-based authentication.

Do even more with your Proton Pass browser extension

We’re going to continue focusing on making Proton Pass a powerful assistant for you on your web browser.

To speed up your browsing, biometric unlock is coming to the Proton Pass extension. It’ll be available for macOS and Chromium first, with other browsers and OS released gradually. You’ll be able to use your fingerprint or face ID to unlock your account instead of using your master password or PIN code for added convenience. Your account will remain just as secure while saving you time logging in.

We’re also making improvements to autofill in your Proton Pass browser extension. iFrame autofill will detect autofill opportunities in websites and apps with more complicated layouts, like banking apps. URL matching will allow you to configure autofill exactly the way you want, allowing Proton Pass to suggest information for the exact website you’re visiting, a highly requested update.

Because you always need access to your vaults, offline mode for browser extensions is also coming soon. Offline mode is already available for your web, desktop, and mobile Proton Pass apps, so this will keep your vaults accessible when you’re not connected to the internet, no matter which app you’re using. If you’re traveling or if you’ve simply lost connection, you won’t be cut off from the valuable information you need.

Much more than a password manager

Everything we’re developing for Proton Pass makes it easier and more convenient for you to protect your online accounts and organize your digital life. Expanding the core features and capabilities available helps us make Proton Pass a valuable tool for anyone and everyone, at home or at work.

We couldn’t make these updates without the valuable guidance of our community, and we want to hear from you: What would you like to see released for Proton Pass? Tell us what works for you and what you need on Reddit or UserVoice.

Together, we’ll make an internet where your identity is secure and your privacy is protected by default.

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Sharing in Proton Pass is flexible by design. Whether you need to share a single item or an entire vault, or grant temporary or permanent access, there’s an option to do so securely from your Proton Pass account. Today we’re introducing groups in business plans to give you more control over your team’s sharing and improve collaboration.

Admins for most multi-user Proton Pass plans can create groups that organize team members by category, such as by team, department, or project. Once you’ve created a group, you can control access to credentials by assigning those groups to specific vaults and items. Instead of sharing items or vaults individually, access is managed at the group level, making it easier to scale up or down as you need.

Groups are available in Pass Family, Pass Professional, Pass Family, and Business bundles.

Create your first group.

What you can do with groups

Groups make it easier to manage access and share items or vaults at scale. Instead of providing or revoking access one user at a time, you can create groups, add members, and assign permissions to all members at once.

As an admin, you can:

• Create structure within your business by organizing users into groups based on teams, departments, projects, or roles.
• Save time by assigning access to vaults and items at the group level instead of sharing individually.
• Reduce manual work by managing access centrally through group membership.
• Streamline onboarding and offboarding by adding or removing users from groups.

Within your organization, team members can:

• Create items and share them directly with groups for easier collaboration.
• Belong to multiple groups, inheriting access (to items or vaults) from all assigned groups and never wasting time chasing access to the tools and systems they need to get work done.
• Always have access to the latest passwords and data shared with the groups they belong to, no matter which device or platform they’re using.

Put an end to unnecessary access

Protecting sensitive data within your business is easier when you team members have access to what they need and nothing more.

This is known as the “principle of least privilege,” and it’s one of the core principles of zero trust security. Zero trust is a cybersecurity framework that means a system never assumes anyone’s identity or access rights, and will verify every time access is attempted.

When it comes to sensitive data such as financial records or customer details, access must be limited strictly to those who need access. Otherwise, insider threats proliferate — 83% of businesses (new window) reported accidental or malicious data breaches caused by their own employees in 2024. If you’re not taking care to ensure that access is limited strictly to those who need it, and regularly removing legacy accounts for ex-employees, your valuable business data is at risk.

Groups make it simple to define who can access what within your network. Working with the principle of least privilege is difficult and prone to errors when you’re managing access at the user level. But working at the group level gives you a much clearer picture of access rights within your organization, making it easier and quicker to enforce properly structured access rights.

Simplify onboarding and offboarding

Introducing a new team member can be time-consuming and error prone, from assigning equipment to ensuring they have access to the tools and systems they’ll need for their role. A team member can get to work faster when the appropriate access is designated from day one. Adding them to a group is the most efficient and reliable way to set up their role and permissions within your network.

Groups also make offboarding easier and safer. Old accounts for former employees and contractors increase your attack surface and risk leaving “ghost access” to accounts they’re no longer authorized to see.

Easier team password sharing for faster work

Sharing credentials, WiFi passwords, payment details, and notes is a daily necessity in the modern workplace.

Vaults in Proton Pass are the ideal location to centralize the information and make it available to your team across multiple devices. But without proper access controls, sensitive information can still leak.

Groups reduce this risk and also ensure that members always have access to the latest version of credentials; if a password is changed by one user, it’s updated in real time for all other users.

Secure links are still available for one-off and temporary sharing, but group access permissions will prevent unauthorized sharing, reducing errors and protecting your network.

See Proton Pass in action

Proton Pass was designed to help everyone take control of their passwords, but businesses have unique collaboration needs and heightened risks. Small businesses are especially targeted by hackers, with one in four experiencing a cyberattack in the last year.

Swiss IT management firm GILAI and the French managed office provider Morning have enabled security and collaboration by switching to Proton Pass.

See how Proton Pass met GILAI’s rigorous security standards

Read about how Proton Pass powers Morning’s business model

Groups is the next step in making Proton Pass for Business the ideal tool for password management, access control, and collaboration. If you’re interested in finding out more about Proton Pass for Business, contact our sales team for more information.

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