# Basic Info - **Time**: Wednesday 08 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) - **Place**: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network # Topics ## Current Topics - **Release planning for 2.6.1 (planned today)** - Are we good to do a 2.6.1 release? - Status on DCO? Currently has issues to resolve still. - Status on `--dns` directive? Not fully ready but DNS option changes d12fk would like to have in. - Status on dynamic tls-crypt? This made it in. - Status on DCO + compression patch? Some discussion still ongoing here. - 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. - We need to remember to ask Debian maintainer then to pick up 2.6.2. - **SBOM Topic** - Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a software bill of materials. The answer was no. - Coincidentally, in OpenVPN Inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do. - When we pick up this task we can coordinate on it. - **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. - Developers will be contacted individually by plaisthos and dazo to try and get approvals. - **Press Release of 2.6** - Still waiting on blog post release - now planned for this week. - **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** - Website team did not deliver solution as promised in February. They now promise this month. We shall see. ## Topics on Standby - **2.7 Plans, if any?** - 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. - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)?** - Yes, Matt is currently working on it in [OpenVPN GUI Issue #595](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 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. - **[OpenVPN Quickstart](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.