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 fileor inlineauth-user-passwould 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.
