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| 61306b | flichtenheld | 2025-10-28 13:17:04 | 1 | # StatusOfOpenvpn28 |
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| 3 | # Introduction |
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| 5 | This page shows the high-level status of OpenVPN 2.8 release. |
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| 7 | # Schedule |
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| 9 | Release is roughly planned for two years after OpenVPN 2.7. So end of 2027 or beginning of 2028. |
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| 11 | # Features/fixes to include |
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| 13 | ## completed/done |
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| 15 | | **Task description** | **Assigned to** | **Status** | **Ticket** | **Patchwork / Gerrit** | |
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| 18 | ## should have |
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| 20 | | **Task description** | **Assigned to** | **Status** | **Ticket** | **Gerrit / Patchwork** | |
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| 22 | | Tunnelcrack improvements for Linux | d12fk | TBD | - | - | |
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| 24 | ## nice to have / wild ideas |
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| 26 | | **Task description** | **Assigned to** | **Status** | **Ticket** | **Patchwork / Gerrit** | |
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| 28 | | Bloom-filter DDoS protection | plaisthos | Gerrit | - | [bloom topic](https://gerrit.openvpn.net/q/topic:%22bloom%22) | |
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| 29 | | HAProxy support | ralf_lici | Gerrit | - | [proxy-protocol topic](https://gerrit.openvpn.net/q/topic:%22proxy-protocol%22) | |
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| 30 | | Transport plugin (primary use case: obfuscation) | giaan | WIP | - | - | |
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| 31 | | Remove deprecated --ns-cert-type | - | - | [Deprecated Options](../Pages/Deprecated%20options) | - | |
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| 32 | | Remove deprecated --tun-ipv6 | - | - | [Deprecated Options](../Pages/Deprecated%20options) | - | |
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| 33 | | Remove deprecated --max-routes | - | - | [Deprecated Options](../Pages/Deprecated%20options) | - | |
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| 34 | | Remove deprecated --dhcp-release | - | - | [Deprecated Options](../Pages/Deprecated%20options) | - | |
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| 35 | | Properly deprecate \_v1 and \_v2 plugin functions | - | - | [Deprecated Options](../Pages/Deprecated%20options) | - | |
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| 36 | | Implement kqueue on MacOS | plaisthos | wip (but slower than poll()) | - | - | |
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| 37 | | Sort out multiple-plugin auth mess | dazo, cron2 | on-going | - | [RFC patch 2327](https://patchwork.openvpn.net/patch/2327/) | |
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| 38 | | Improve NM-OVPN integration | cron2 | trying to establish contact | - | - | |
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| 39 | | Make TAP6-Windows Really Fast | lev | not started | - | - | |
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| 40 | | SRV patch (set) | ? | patch needs work | - | - | |
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| 41 | | Test server that does --auth-user-pass and/or challenge stuff | cron2 (snair) | --auth-user-pass done, challenge missing | - | - | |
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| 42 | | Maybe: fix radius-plugin - plugin is useful but not maintained very well | ??? | ??? | - | - | |
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| 43 | | Test framework improvements (local "make check" crypto tests) | syzzer | - | - | - | |
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| 44 | | Inner VRF support? | ?? | ?? | ?? | - | |
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| 45 | | Route monitoring (enable clients to react to network changes) | cron2 | not started | - | - | |
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| 46 | | Maybe: add data channel separation (or, move to ovpn3, which already has this?) | ??? | ??? | - | - | |
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| 47 | | Support TLS record splitting (like ovpn3) | syzzer | (started, but no patches available yet) | #554 | - | |
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| 48 | | Improve control channel performance (further) - redo reliability layer, introduce windowing / scaling | syzzer | ??? | - | - | |