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  • Time: Wednesday, 22 February 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

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Current topics

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

2.6 release - any new feedback, anything vital?

"Azure VPN Gateway has their own implementation of OpenVPN that is incompatible with 2.6. We contacted them and offered our help."

New --dns directive - when to publish that. Can it go in 2.6.1?

d12fk is working on the new --dns directives and has gotten pretty far. He's now in the jungle of edge cases and corner cases. The question is, can this be added to 2.6.1, or should it wait until 2.7 or such? It seems the consensus is that new features can be added to 2.6.1 and maybe even 2.6.2. Dynamic tls-crypt, for example, is also going into 2.6.1.

License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues

"A refined and approved by legal expert proposal for a license amendment was sent to the mailing list. No reactions yet. We will have to contact the contributors one by one."

Hackathon blog post on OpenVPN website is done

This is published at OpenVPN Hackathon 2022 Blog.

Press release of 2.6

The community rewrote the draft. This draft was further refined by the community and sent to the team for publishing. There was confusion about what actually a press release is. From the community point of view, we just want the blog post, and that draft is done and sent for publishing. We don't need a paid press release with hyperbolic language to entice other journalists to write about it.

Review DCO-for-Linux release status

Ordex submitted code for testing and review that focuses on handling the data channel in DCO and let the control channel be handled by user space. It looks like this change will be ready for the upcoming 2.6.1 release. Then, we'll rename the DCO module to ovpn-dco-v2. The next item is the TCP notification missing under heavy load bug. Will retest after this change.

Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review

The Gerrit proof of concept is online. Ordex and uddr are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing.

Website release process woes

For the community downloads section, some method is being worked on to provide fast update capability. The website team promised 'before end of the month'.

Topics on standby

Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)?

"Yes, Matt is currently working on it in OpenVPN GUI Issue #595."

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. Ecrist has looked at it, but the current state of the migration is unknown.

Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around the 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, the press release."

Management interface documentation on the 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 as time permits and other more important topics are done.

IPv6 to community

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