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+ ## OpenVPN 2.7.1 -- Released 31 March 2026
+ The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.7.1. This is a bug fix release.
+
+ For details see [Changes.rst](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.7.1/Changes.rst)
+
+ New features:
+
+ - Add a new `username-only` flag argument to `--auth-user-pass` which
+ will now make OpenVPN only query for username and send a dummy password
+ to the server. This is only useful if auth schemes are used on the
+ server side that will do some sort of external challenge base on username,
+ and not password authentication. See discussion in
+ GH [OpenVPN/openvpn#501](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/501)
+ (starting Jan 30, 2024).
+ - Increase default sizing of internal hash maps to `4 * --max-clients`.
+ The default used to be `256` with a `--max-clients` default of
+ 1024 - this is bad for performance, while the memory savings are
+ minimal. On a very memory constrained system, reduce `--max-clients`.
+
+ User-visible Changes:
+
+ - When compiled with the AWS-LC SSL library, using `--tls-cert-profile`
+ will now print a run-time warning - the library does not support it,
+ so it would silently do nothing.
+ - Systemd unit files: change LimitNPROC to TasksMax and increase limit
+ (GH: [OpenVPN/openvpn#929](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/929))
+ - Documentation improvements.
+ - port-share: log incoming connections at `verb 3`, not on `error`
+ level anymore (GH: [OpenVPN/openvpn#976](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/976)).
+
+ Bugfixes:
+
+ - Fix usage of `--lport` inside a `<connection>` block - this got
+ broken with the multi-socket patchset (GH: [OpenVPN/openvpn#995](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/995))
+ - Do not try to run auto-pam unit test when cross-compiling.
+ - Do not break private-key passphrases of length >= 64
+ (GH: [OpenVPN/openvpn#993](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/993))
+ - Fix obscure ASSERT() crash on TCP connects with TAP and no ip config.
+ - Make DCO work on FreeBSD systems that have no IPv4 support in kernel
+ (FreeBSD PR 286263)
+ - Make DCO work on Linux on big endian systems (namely, MIPS and PowerPC)
+ (GH: [OpenVPN/ovpn-dco#96](https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-dco/issues/96))
+ - Fixup responses to management interface ``version`` command (for >= 4)
+ - Make `--enable-async-push` work on FreeBSD 15 (which has native
+ inotify support, and consequently no libinotify.pc anymore)
+ - Adjust some code parts to new "const" handling on string function
+ returns (ISO C23, as implemented by glibc 2.43 and newer).
+
+ Windows MSI changes since 2.7.1:
+ * Make sure that included openvpnserv2.exe is signed (GH: [OpenVPN/openvpn-build#1293](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-build/issues/1293))
+ * Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.62.0.0
+ * Translation updates
+
+ | | | |
+ |-|-|-|
+ |**Windows 64-bit MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-amd64.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-amd64.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-amd64.msi)|
+ |**Windows ARM64 MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-arm64.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-arm64.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-arm64.msi)|
+ |**Windows 32-bit MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-x86.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-x86.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.7.1-I001-x86.msi)|
+ |**Source archive file**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.7.1.tar.gz.asc)|[openvpn-2.7.1.tar.gz](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.7.1.tar.gz)|
+
+ For Community-maintained packages for Linux distributions see [OpenVPN Software Repositories](/Pages/OpenVPN%20software%20repos).
+
## OpenVPN 2.7.0 -- Released 11 February 2026
The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.7.0.
This is the new stable version of OpenVPN with some major new features.
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