Xray-core

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Xray-core is a network proxy platform written in Go, best known as the successor to v2ray-core and the home of the XTLS/REALITY anti-censorship protocols. It supports multiple proxy protocols (VLESS, VMess, Trojan, Shadowsocks, SOCKS5, WireGuard) and transports for tunneling traffic past censorship.

Use cases

• circumvent internet censorship with REALITY and XTLS
• set up a self-hosted proxy server with VLESS or Trojan
• replace v2ray-core with a more actively developed core
• tunnel traffic over TLS to look like normal HTTPS
• route and forward traffic with DNS and routing rules
• run a VPN-like tunnel over WireGuard or XHTTP

When to choose

• you need robust, actively developed anti-censorship proxying
• you want REALITY/XTLS or XHTTP transport features
• you need v2ray-core compatibility with more protocol options
• you self-host a proxy server on Linux with systemd or Docker

When to avoid

• you need a simple consumer VPN app with a GUI
• you only need a plain OpenVPN or WireGuard setup without obfuscation
• you want a managed commercial VPN service

Facets

application · maturity active

proxy networking vpn security cryptography privacy censorship-circumvention networking security windows cross-platform self-hosted go anticensorship vless vmess trojan shadowsocks reality xtls xhttp tunnel utls v2ray-compatible linux macos docker

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