Days after rolling out its early Black Friday discounts , Proton VPN released its fall and winter product roadmap , announcing the addition of five new free server locations, a new VPN architecture and a command-line Linux interface.

The new server locations -- Mexico, Canada, Switzerland, Norway and Singapore -- bring the total number of servers available to people on Proton VPN's free plan to 10. Proton's software automatically chooses the best location, but it's possible to choose a server manually as well .

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Proton says it's developing a new VPN architecture to develop reliable apps more quickly and with quicker deployment of new features, Stealth support for Linux

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