# 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](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/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](https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/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.