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| 6f02e7 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-01-29 06:40:08 | 1 | # Basic Info |
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| 3 | - **Time**: Wednesday 08 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 | - **Release planning for 2.6.1 (planned today)** |
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| 11 | - Are we good to do a 2.6.1 release? |
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| 12 | - Status on DCO? Currently has issues to resolve still. |
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| 13 | - Status on `--dns` directive? Not fully ready but DNS option changes d12fk would like to have in. |
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| 14 | - Status on dynamic tls-crypt? This made it in. |
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| 15 | - Status on DCO + compression patch? Some discussion still ongoing here. |
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| 16 | - Plan for now is to release 2.6.1 today and plan a 2.6.2 for next week or the week after with at the very least the DCO changes in there but ideally also the DNS and compression patch. |
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| 17 | - We need to remember to ask Debian maintainer then to pick up 2.6.2. |
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| 19 | - **SBOM Topic** |
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| 20 | - Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a software bill of materials. The answer was no. |
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| 21 | - Coincidentally, in OpenVPN Inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do. |
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| 22 | - When we pick up this task we can coordinate on it. |
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| 24 | - **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve OpenSSL/mbedTLS licensing issues** |
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| 25 | - A refined and approved by legal expert proposal for a license amendment was sent to the mailing list. |
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| 26 | - Developers will be contacted individually by plaisthos and dazo to try and get approvals. |
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| 28 | - **Press Release of 2.6** |
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| 29 | - Still waiting on blog post release - now planned for this week. |
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| 31 | - **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review** |
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| 32 | - Gerrit proof of concept is online. |
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| 33 | - Ordex, uddr, df12k, plaisthos, are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing. |
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| 34 | - Any blockers/issues/suggestions? |
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| 35 | - Basically, so far so good. |
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| 37 | - **Website release process woes** |
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| 38 | - Website team did not deliver solution as promised in February. They now promise this month. We shall see. |
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| 40 | ## Topics on Standby |
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| 42 | - **2.7 Plans, if any?** |
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| 43 | - Are there any features that we have in mind that will not make it into 2.6.*? |
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| 44 | - Signal handling respin. |
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| 45 | - Take everything apart and rebuild, 2.6 is made of duct tape. |
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| 46 | - Bloom filter DDoS reflection protection. |
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| 48 | - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)?** |
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| 49 | - Yes, Matt is currently working on it in [OpenVPN GUI Issue #595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595) |
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| 51 | - **Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system** |
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| 52 | - Mattock made a new forums system that runs on Rocky Linux 8 as agreed with ecrist. |
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| 53 | - Ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown. |
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| 55 | - **Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support around end of March** |
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| 57 | - **OpenVPN 2.6 performance results** |
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| 58 | - 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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| 60 | - **Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt** |
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| 61 | - Novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back. |
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| 63 | - **[OpenVPN Quickstart](https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/) will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information** |
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| 64 | - Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff. |
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| 65 | - Novaflash will pick this up again as time permits and other more important topics are done. |
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| 67 | - **IPv6 to community** |
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| 68 | - No new information to report. |