# 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.