The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.7_rc6. This is the sixth release candidate for the feature release 2.7.0.
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## OpenVPN 2.7.0 -- Released 11 February 2026
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The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.7.0.
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This is the new stable version of OpenVPN with some major new features.
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Important changes since 2.7_rc5:
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* bugfix on restarting a p2mp server instance with SIGUSR1 (inadvertedly
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closing fd 0, causing a crash on the next restart - GH [OpenVPN/openvpn#966](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/966))
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* prevent NULL pointer crash on suitable combination of --dns-updown
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statements in openvpn config file (not pushable)
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* prevent inappropriate management interface activity if a password is
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set and --management-forget-disconnect or --management-signal are active
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* add mbedTLS 4 support
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For a list of all changes see the [git log](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/compare/v2.7_rc5...v2.7_rc6).
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Windows MSI was updated on Feb 4th to 2.7_rc6-I015 to rebuild with updated OpenSSL 3.6.1.
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This release has only minor changes relative to the last release candidate release 2.7_rc6.
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For a list of these changes see the [git log](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/compare/v2.7_rc6...v2.7.0).
Highlights of 2.7 include:
* Multi-socket support for servers -- Handle multiple addresses/ports/protocols within one server
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* "Recursive Routing" check is now more granular, and will only drop packets-in-tunnel if destination IP, protocol and port matches with those needed to reach the VPN server.
* COPYING: license details only relevant to our Windows installers have been updated and moved to the openvpn-build repo
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For details see [Changes.rst](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.7_rc6/Changes.rst)
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For details see [Changes.rst](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.7.0/Changes.rst)
For Community-maintained packages for Linux distributions see [OpenVPN Software Repositories](/Pages/OpenVPN%20software%20repos). Note that the Fedora Copr repositories have been moved to the @OpenVPN group account and that there are new repositories available on openSUSE Buildservice.
