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| 6f02e7 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-01-29 06:40:08 | 1 | # Basic info |
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| 3 | - **Time**: Wednesday 15 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 of 2.6.1 was done last week** |
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| 11 | - We released last week, but it seems there was no forum post. Novaflash quickly added one, but there is Copr/Fedora stuff missing. |
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| 12 | - The forum post seems to also be not at the top - no permissions to change this? |
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| 13 | - We also forgot to send out an email. |
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| 15 | - **Release planning for 2.6.2 - planned for 22 March** |
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| 16 | - In last week's meeting, it was suggested to do some small quick releases in the short term. |
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| 17 | - How are things looking for a 2.6.2? |
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| 18 | - Items that didn't make it into 2.6.1: |
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| 19 | - DNS directive. |
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| 20 | - DCO control channel switch (DCO 0.2xx). |
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| 21 | - DCO + compression patch. |
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| 22 | - We should also add in the fix for auth-pending. |
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| 23 | - And add in --inactive support for DCO. |
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| 24 | - And PKCS11-helper bugfix. |
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| 25 | - And a memory leak fix. |
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| 26 | - Have to remember to ask Debian maintainer to pick up a version of OpenVPN 2.6.x that includes the DCO control channel switch. |
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| 28 | - **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve OpenSSL/mbedTLS licensing issues** |
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| 29 | - In discussion with the legal expert, it was thought to be a good idea to send in the license change as a PR. |
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| 30 | - This obviously won't just go in so easily until we have all the necessary approvals, but it was thought a good way to give it some attention. |
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| 31 | - A next step would be to reach out to individual developers to get approvals. |
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| 33 | - **Blog post for OpenVPN 2.6 release on main site** |
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| 34 | - This is here: [OpenVPN 2.6 Blog Post](https://openvpn.net/blog/openvpn-2-6) |
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| 35 | - A real press release by OpenVPN Inc. is also coming this week. |
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| 37 | - **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.** |
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| 38 | - For authentication, we've decided to: |
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| 39 | - Not accept anonymous submissions. |
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| 40 | - Do authentication via LDAP now. |
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| 41 | - Add GitHub later as an extra. |
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| 42 | - Uddr will write a document that describes the future workflow for company and community people. |
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| 43 | - To be reviewed in 2 weeks from now. |
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| 45 | - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)?** |
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| 46 | - Yes, Matt is currently working on it in [GitHub Issue 595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595) |
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| 47 | - Should we perhaps accept the current icon set and set up another ticket to go through another set of improvements? This seems to be what Selva suggested. |
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| 49 | ## Topics on standby |
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| 51 | - **Website release process woes** |
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| 52 | - Website team did not deliver solution as promised in February. They now promise this month. We shall see. |
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| 54 | - **SBOM topic** |
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| 55 | - Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a Software Bill of Materials. Answer was no. |
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| 56 | - 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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| 57 | - When we pick up this task, we can coordinate on it. |
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| 59 | - **2.7 plans, if any?** |
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| 60 | - Are there any features that we have in mind that will not make it into 2.6.*? |
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| 61 | - Signal handling respin. |
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| 62 | - Take everything apart and rebuild, 2.6 is made of duct tape. |
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| 63 | - Bloom filter DDoS reflection protection. |
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| 65 | - **Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.** |
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| 66 | - Mattock made a new forums system that runs on Rocky Linux 8 as agreed with Ecrist. |
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| 67 | - Ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown. |
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| 69 | - **Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around end of March** |
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| 71 | - **OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.** |
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| 72 | - 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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| 74 | - **Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt** |
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| 75 | - Novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back. |
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| 77 | - **[OpenVPN Quickstart](https://openvpn.net/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/) will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.** |
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| 78 | - Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff. |
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| 79 | - Novaflash will pick this up again as time permits and other more important topics are done. |
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| 81 | - **IPv6 to community.** |
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| 82 | - No new information to report. |