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+ ## OpenVPN 2.6.18 -- Released 4 February 2026
+ The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.18. This is a bugfix release.
+
+ For details see [Changes.rst](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.6.18/Changes.rst)
+
+ User visible changes:
+ * disable DCO if `--bind-dev` option is given (no support for this in
+ the old out-of-kernel Linux DCO implementation)
+ * on Windows, if using `--ip-win32 netsh` and not using the interactive
+ service, IPv4 addresses would be installed as "permanent", possibly
+ causing problems later on with using that IPv4 address on a different
+ interface. Change to "store=active". (GH: [#915](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/915))
+ * improve pull-filter documentation, emphasizing possible problems if
+ used as a naive security measure (reported by SRLabs)
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * p2mp server: fix incorrect file descriptor handling on "inotify" FD
+ during a SIGUSR1 restart (GH: [#966](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/966))
+ * management interface: fix bug where `--management-forget-disconnect`
+ and `--management-signal` could be executed even if password authentication
+ to managment interface was still pending (ZeroPath finding)
+ * repair client-side interaction on reconnect between DCO event handling
+ and `--persist-tun` - after a ping timeout and reconnect, the DCO
+ event handler would not be armed, and the next ping timeout would not
+ be received by userland, causing non-working connections with nothing
+ in the openvpn log (Linux and FreeBSD only, GH: [#947](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/issues/947))
+ - prevent crash on invalid server-ipv6 argument, calling `freeaddrinfo()`
+ with a NULL pointer. This only affects OpenBSD. (Klemens Nanni).
+
+ Windows MSI changes since 2.6.17-I001:
+ * Built against OpenSSL 3.6.1
+ * Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.61.0.0
+ * translation updates
+
+ | | | |
+ |-|-|-|
+ |**Windows 64-bit MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-amd64.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-amd64.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-amd64.msi)|
+ |**Windows ARM64 MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-arm64.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-arm64.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-arm64.msi)|
+ |**Windows 32-bit MSI installer**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-x86.msi.asc)|[OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-x86.msi](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/OpenVPN-2.6.18-I001-x86.msi)|
+ |**Source archive file**|[GnuPG Signature](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.6.18.tar.gz.asc)|[openvpn-2.6.18.tar.gz](https://swupdate.openvpn.org/community/releases/openvpn-2.6.18.tar.gz)|
+
+ For Community-maintained packages for Linux distributions see [OpenVPN Software Repositories](/Pages/OpenVPN%20software%20repos).
+
## OpenVPN 2.7_rc6 -- Released 28 January 2026
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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