OpenVPN 2.7.3 -- Released 27 April 2026

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.7.3. This is a small bugfix release.

For details see Changes.rst

Bugfixes:

  • in combination with --management-query-passwords, setups using --auth-user-pass file or inline auth-user-pass would no longer use the configured passwords and prompt on the management interface instead (OpenVPN GUI would then provide an empty user/password prompt) (Github: openpvn#1021).

Windows MSI changes since 2.7.2:

  • Built against OpenSSL 3.6.2
Windows 64-bit MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.7.3-I001-amd64.msi
Windows ARM64 MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.7.3-I001-arm64.msi
Windows 32-bit MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.7.3-I001-x86.msi
Source archive file GnuPG Signature openvpn-2.7.3.tar.gz

For Community-maintained packages for Linux distributions see OpenVPN Software Repositories.

OpenVPN 2.6.20 -- Released 22 April 2026

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.20. This is a bugfix release containing security fixes.

For details see Changes.rst

Security fixes:

  • CVE-2026-40215: fix race condition in TLS handshake that could lead to leaking of packet data from a previous handshake under specific circumstances
  • CVE-2026-35058: fix server ASSERT() on receiving a suitably malformed packet with a valid tls-crypt-v2 key

Bugfixes:

  • management: stop periodic bytecount output on mgmt client disconnection
  • FreeBSD: make DCO work on systems with no IPv4 support
  • FreeBSD: fix compilation with --enable-async-push on FreeBSD 15
  • Linux: make DCO work on big endian architectures (MIPS, PowerPC)
  • Windows: fix deinstallation progress bar on adapter deletion.
  • Linux: fix problem with DCO kernel notifications getting lost, leading to overcounting of number of connected clients and general confusion between kernel and userland regarding peer status (Github #900, #918, #931, #919, #945) - this is a backport of the fixes in 2.7 plus the infrastructural changes around DCO needed to support it.

Windows MSI changes since 2.6.19-I001:

  • Built against OpenSSL 3.6.2
  • Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.63.0.0
    • Translation cleanup. Remove obsolete strings related to support for OpenVPN < 2.0
    • Translation updates.
Windows 64-bit MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.6.20-I001-amd64.msi
Windows ARM64 MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.6.20-I001-arm64.msi
Windows 32-bit MSI installer GnuPG Signature OpenVPN-2.6.20-I001-x86.msi
Source archive file GnuPG Signature openvpn-2.6.20.tar.gz

For Community-maintained packages for Linux distributions see OpenVPN Software Repositories.

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