# Basic Info - **Time:** Wednesday 7 December 2022 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) - **Place:** #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network # Topics ### How do we tag issues received on Github in our commit messages? - djpig indicated the GitHub parses this format: "Github: OpenVPN/openvpn#123" ### We will no doubt get bug reports about OpenVPN Connect software on GitHub issues. They do not belong there. How to deal with them? - novaflash will discuss with the team lead of OpenVPN Connect team and discuss options. ### Collect and discuss feedback on 2.6_beta1 release. - Windows I601 missing legacy.dll OpenSSL provider is fixed (lev) - eduvpn node crashed machine with 2.6_beta1 ouch, berniv6 should open an issue (berniv6) (cron2) - FreeBSD openvpn-devel port updated (cron2/m-a) - maxf has found a junior victim to test openvpn 2.6_beta1 (maxf) - Anything else? ### Should we do a 2.6_beta1 I602 windows release? - Only change is the legacy fix. Let's just do a release next week on December 15. ### 2.6_beta2 release date - We aim to do this on December 15. Website release to be planned in accordance. ### Patchset that makes pkcs11 code even worse but will make users happy (becm) - This patch makes it possible to tell pkcs11 thingee where to look for libraries and then things will just work. ### License amendment for OpenVPN2 to accommodate mbedtls. - plaisthos made a first draft. plaisthos asked to get novaflash to ask francis and james to sign off on it. - In the meantime, we need to compile a list of contributors and get ready to ask them to accept the changes. ### The reference manual for OpenVPN 2.6 will be posted on the main website this week. - This will be included in this week's website updates. Note: if there are updates to the documentation in the future kindly advise novaflash so he can update it on the main website too. ### OpenVPN2 build environment and improving it. - djpig is currently working on this. The company has decided to prioritize this task. - In light of the recent security incident, we also want to move the code signing key to an HSM type solution. Working on it. ### Management interface documentation on the main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt ### Automated windows testing status. (lev) ### What is this page https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CodeRepositories, can we delete it? - No, we need to keep it, just has some outdated items that we can update. ### Peer-to-peer DCO handling status. (ordex, plaisthos) - For Windows, it works if both peers have --remote, because it is client-only on Windows and therefore expected to work this way. - On Linux/FreeBSD all previously found nastiness is now resolved and in beta1 already. ### Initial handshake rate limiting status (cron2, plaisthos) - plaisthos brought up the idea to do a particular filter method. ### NM integration / CAP_NET_ADMIN status. (dazo) - Dazo currently unavailable. ### Build failure with private-install openssl 3 & DCO ticket #1469. (cron2) - djpig's environment does not show the bug, but cron2's does. Not sure what's going on yet. - Will need to investigate further before deciding to make a bug report or not. ### SRV support, testers, and OpenBSD decision needed. (cron2) - djpig tested and nacked it - themiron promised to test and did not deliver anything, so it missed the boat. - Unless a fix comes in early next week and makes it into beta2, then it's likely going to miss the 2.6.0 boat. ### Management interface improvement patches. (selva) - 2 parts are now merged, the rest is in the review/merge process. ### As discussed in Hackathon, we want to do a PoC with using Gerrit for code review. - This requires an environment to be set up and tuned. This is postponed until after the 2.6 stable release. ### Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system. - mattock agreed to convert it to rocky linux 8 with ecrist's blessing. - Was blocked from creating a VM, am now unblocked, will work on it now. ### Forums issues, permissions, layout. - Over the weekend things were broken on the forums, they're working again now. For some reason, novaflash and openvpn_inc are being denied permissions, why? ### novaflash needs some input on https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/ - Static-key will be deprecated, there's already a warning about that in OpenVPN if you use it. - plaisthos has a tutorial for peer fingerprint that will be much easier to use. It is at https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst - novaflash will update this outdated page. ### IPv6 to community. - No new information to report. [Back to meeting list](..)