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| 6f02e7 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-01-29 06:40:08 | 1 | # Basic info |
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| 3 | - Time: Wednesday 01 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) |
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| 4 | - Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network |
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| 6 | # Topics |
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| 8 | ## Current topics |
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| 10 | - **Planning to have OpenVPN 2.6.1 around March 8th.** |
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| 12 | - **2.6.1 planning** |
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| 13 | - Are there any items still in progress intended for 2.6.1 release? Yes. |
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| 14 | - Will the DCO control channel changes be done? Depends if it can pass tests on time. |
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| 15 | - Will --dns directive be ready? Maybe, depends on how fast review/test/merge goes. |
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| 16 | - Is dynamic tls-crypt ready? It's just waiting to be merged. |
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| 17 | - plaisthos says compression patch dco + compression should go into 2.6.1. |
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| 19 | - **DCO topics** |
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| 20 | - In theory, DCO control changes should go out with 2.6.1. |
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| 21 | - With 2.6.1 release, DCO module will be renamed to ovpn-dco-v2. |
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| 22 | - TCP notification missing under heavy load bug - this is resolved now. |
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| 23 | - Any other DCO topics? |
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| 25 | - **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues** |
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| 26 | - A refined and approved by legal expert proposal for a license amendment was sent to the mailing list. |
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| 27 | - No reactions yet. We will have to contact the contributors one by one. |
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| 28 | - dazo is working on this. maxf reports an okay to the license amendment. |
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| 30 | - **Press release of 2.6** |
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| 31 | - Currently waiting for the release of a blog post by the community on the main website regarding the 2.6 release. Expected this week. |
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| 32 | - OpenVPN Inc also wants to do their own real press release, it will probably be full of hyperbole. |
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| 33 | - novaflash has been 'volunteered' for a quote. Lovely. |
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| 35 | - **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.** |
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| 36 | - Gerrit proof of concept is online. |
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| 37 | - ordex, uddr, df12k, plaisthos, are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing. |
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| 38 | - Any blockers/issues/suggestions? |
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| 39 | - Basically, so far so good. |
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| 41 | - **Website release process woes** |
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| 42 | - 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. |
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| 43 | - Haven't seen anything yet, novaflash will check internally for an update. |
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| 45 | - **2.7 plans, if any?** |
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| 46 | - I know, very early. Are there any features that we have in mind that will not make it into 2.6.*? |
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| 47 | - Signal handling respin. |
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| 48 | - Take everything apart and rebuild, 2.6 is made of duct tape. |
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| 49 | - Bloom filter DDoS reflection protection. |
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| 51 | ## Topics on standby |
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| 53 | - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer windows traybar logos (#1276)?** |
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| 54 | - Yes, matt is currently working on it in https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595 |
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| 56 | - **Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.** |
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| 57 | - mattock made a new forums system that runs on rocky linux 8 as agreed with ecrist. |
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| 58 | - ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown. |
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| 60 | - **Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around end of March** |
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| 62 | - **OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.** |
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| 63 | - We should work on an article to publish some performance results when 2.6 is out as stable, but first press release. |
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| 65 | - **Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt** |
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| 66 | - novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back. |
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| 68 | - **https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/ will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.** |
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| 69 | - Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff. |
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| 70 | - novaflash will pick this up again as time permits and other more important topics are done. |
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| 72 | - **IPv6 to community.** |
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| 73 | - No new information to report. |