Basic Info

• Time: Wednesday 15 February 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current Topics

• Planning to have a new release of OpenVPN 2.6 around March 8th.

• 2.6 Release - Any New Feedback, Anything Vital?

  • A DCO with BSOD on systems with legacy standby modes, Lev reproduced and fixed it.
  • Azure VPN gateway has their own implementation of OpenVPN that is incompatible with 2.6. Lev contacted them and offered to help to find and resolve the problem.
  • We should prepare an I005 release today and get that pushed out.

• License Amendment for OpenVPN2 to Solve openssl/mbedtls Licensing Issues

  • Current status is that we know for sure from a legal expert that an exception addition is necessary.
  • A refined and lawyer-approved proposal is ready to be sent to the mailing list.

• Hackathon Blog Post on OpenVPN Website is Ready

  • This is about the hackathon in Delft in November.
  • Community review is requested - if it's good to go it will be published.

• Press Release of 2.6

  • In progress. A draft was made and edited by the community quite a bit.
  • It will now go to the OpenVPN marketing team for polishing and publishing.

• Review DCO-for-Linux Release Status

  • Working on making control packets go through transport socket instead of netlink. Easy for UDP, not so easy for TCP.
  • Looks like Ordex will have this change ready for the upcoming 2.6.1 release. We'll rename the DCO module to ovpn-dco2 then.
  • Next item is TCP notification missing under heavy load bug. Will retest after control channel moved to socket.

• Status of PoC Using Gerrit for Code Review

  • Gerrit proof of concept is online.
  • Goal seems to have settled on - we want to keep existing mailing list since not everyone will be using Gerrit. But Gerrit will add easier review abilities.
  • So Gerrit has to send emails to mailing list, pick up patches from mailing list, and review responses to emails sent to mailing list should feed also into Gerrit.
  • Uddr will set up a PoC with a dummy repo so we can start testing out some email functionality of Gerrit.

• Website Release Process Woes

  • Work started on an API to allow updates at any time on the main website for the community downloads section.

Topics on Standby

• Forums Machine on Community Infrastructure is Only Non-Linux System

  • Mattock made a new forums system that runs on Rocky Linux 8 as agreed with Ecrist.
  • There was some trouble with him getting credentials but that should be resolved now.
  • Last known status is that it is waiting for approval from Ecrist.

• Can We Have Someone at OpenVPN Create Nicer Windows Traybar Logos (#1276)?

  • Yes, Matt is currently working on it in GitHub Issue 595.

• Have to Remember to Update SupportedVersions to Put 2.4 Out of Support at Around End of March

• OpenVPN 2.6 Performance Results

  • We should work on an article to publish some performance results when 2.6 is out as stable, but first press release.

• Management Interface Documentation on Main Website Will Be Updated with Info from doc/management-notes.txt

  • Novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.

• OpenVPN Quickstart Will Be Updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst Information

  • Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff.
  • Novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.

• IPv6 to Community

  • No new information to report.