There are a lot of changes and some new features, check out the details here; https://community.openvpn.net/Downloads
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- **Updated: mbedtls support**
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mbedTLS 4 support is now in 2.7.0.
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- **Updated: Release 2.6.18 and 2.6.19**
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A small bugfix release version 2.6.18 was released last week, immediately followed by a 2.6.19 because of a small issue.
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- **Updated: forums situation**
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We're pretty much ready to replace the old forums with the new one.
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All accounts will need to do a password reset. You can request a password reset to your email address on the new forum to regain access to your account.
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There will still be a lot of left over crap from the old forums that was imported, but we will sift through that to keep the good and ditch the bad.
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- **community meetup 2026**
When: the weekend of 17 and 18 october, 2026 (decided by poll https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/VnbRxE6iKdWECLbW)
Beer: recommendation against local paderborner beer, although it is cheap.
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- **Updated: Release 2.7**
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We unfortunately had to deal with another issue so the stable release was again postponed.
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OpenVPN 2.7rc6 was released 28 January.
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The stable release 2.7.0 is currently planned for 11 February.
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- **Updated: Release 2.6.18**
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A small bugfix release is planned for today.
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- **mbedtls support**
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The plan is to get to mbedtls4 implementation in OpenVPN 2.7 in some version after 2.7.0.
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In ongoing work MaxF reports that --dh is not possible/needed with mbedtls, so will come up with some solution for users with configs that have it.
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- **forums situation**
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Eduardo from website team is currently working on the forums.
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Due to holidays this was on hold for a bit but we're back on it now.
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Most things work now, there are some inconveniences that will require manual intervention like removing spam posts and handling duplicate account issues.
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We will continue to work on it and test it and make it ready for a big switch.
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- **2.7 security audit**
There are still things ongoing in regards to the security audit but no new major findings so far.
Still have items to review and go through, but this is ongoing.
