Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 01 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

• Planning to have OpenVPN 2.6.1 around March 8th.

• 2.6.1 planning

  • Are there any items still in progress intended for 2.6.1 release? Yes.
  • Will the DCO control channel changes be done? Depends if it can pass tests on time.
  • Will --dns directive be ready? Maybe, depends on how fast review/test/merge goes.
  • Is dynamic tls-crypt ready? It's just waiting to be merged.
  • plaisthos says compression patch dco + compression should go into 2.6.1.

• DCO topics

  • In theory, DCO control changes should go out with 2.6.1.
  • With 2.6.1 release, DCO module will be renamed to ovpn-dco-v2.
  • TCP notification missing under heavy load bug - this is resolved now.
  • Any other DCO topics?

• 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.
  • dazo is working on this. maxf reports an okay to the license amendment.

• Press release of 2.6

  • Currently waiting for the release of a blog post by the community on the main website regarding the 2.6 release. Expected this week.
  • OpenVPN Inc also wants to do their own real press release, it will probably be full of hyperbole.
  • novaflash has been 'volunteered' for a quote. Lovely.

• Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.

  • Gerrit proof of concept is online.
  • ordex, uddr, df12k, plaisthos, are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing.
  • Any blockers/issues/suggestions?
  • Basically, so far so good.

• 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 month' February.
  • Haven't seen anything yet, novaflash will check internally for an update.

• 2.7 plans, if any?

  • I know, very early. Are there any features that we have in mind that will not make it into 2.6.*?
  • Signal handling respin.
  • Take everything apart and rebuild, 2.6 is made of duct tape.
  • Bloom filter DDoS reflection protection.

Topics on standby

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

  • Yes, matt is currently working on it in https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/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 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.

• 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 as time permits and other more important topics are done.

• IPv6 to community.

  • No new information to report.