Basic info

• Time: Wed November 30th 2022 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• It has been suggested to move the meeting time slot to 1PM CET.
  This has been accepted. The new official meeting time is now 1PM CET.

• https://openvpn.net/community-resources/notes-differences-between-tap-windows-driver-and-cipe-driver/ is outdated.
  This will be deleted in this week's website update.

• https://openvpn.net/man.html is a wrong redirect.
  This will be updated to point to an overview of OpenVPN 2.* reference manuals in this week's website updates.

• The reference manual for OpenVPN 2.5 will (finally) be posted on the main website.
  This will be included in this week's website updates.

• Can we remove the migration notices from the forums and the wiki front page?
  Yes, already removed from community.openvpn.net, any other places it can be removed from as well.

• Where to find updated management interfaces notes to update it on the main website?
  doc/management-notes.txt in the OpenVPN github repo has this information.

• Automated windows testing status. (lev)
  Have not yet had time to look further into it, but intend to increase coverage with more Windows versions. Did add openvpn-gui --connect testing.

• Peer-to-peer DCO handling status. (ordex, plaisthos)
  Blocker for 2.6 alpha1. Must make it before Friday 2 December, or as fallback option we document bad behavior or disable it for peer-to-peer mode.

• Initial handshake rate limiting status (cron2)
  Not a blocker. Nice-to-have item. May not make it into 2.6. Patches currently already in place already mitigate misbehaviour significantly.

• NM integration / CAP_NET_ADMIN status. (dazo)
  Not a blocker. Nice-to-have item. Will likely not make it into 2.6. Dazo currently unavailable.

• Build failure with private-install openssl 3 & DCO ticket #1469. (cron2)
  Situation was reviewed by djpig. Looks like a bug in Ubuntu we can't solve on our end. cron2 will make an Ubuntu bug report.

• SRV support, testers and OpenBSD decision needed. (cron2)
  At the moment, the patch breaks OpenBSD compilation so that needs fixing. cron2 will provide an updated patch that disables the feature on OpenBSD. djpig promised to review it. If it makes it in before 2.6_beta1 we're good.

• Management interface improvement patches. (selva)
  2 parts are now merged, rest is in review/merge process.

• Release date of OpenVPN 2.6_alpha1.
  Friday 2 December.

• Instead of Trac we want to use Github issues for bug reports.
  We will immediately switch to Github for new bug reports. We will turn off the 'new ticket' function in Trac. Over time we will migrate or close tickets. Urgent items should be resubmitted to Github.

• As discussed in Hackathon we want to do a PoC with using Gerrit for code review.
  This requires an environment to be setup and tuned. This is postponed until after 2.6 stable release.

• Release build automation.
  Since we are going into a cycle of alpha and beta releases, now would be the most opportune time to work on and test release automation improvements.

• Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.
  mattock agreed to convert it to rocky linux 8 with ecrist's blessing.

• IPv6 to community.
  No new information to report.

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