# Basic info - **Time**: Wednesday 15 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) - **Place**: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network # Topics ## Current topics - **Release of 2.6.1 was done last week** - We released last week, but it seems there was no forum post. Novaflash quickly added one, but there is Copr/Fedora stuff missing. - The forum post seems to also be not at the top - no permissions to change this? - We also forgot to send out an email. - **Release planning for 2.6.2 - planned for 22 March** - In last week's meeting, it was suggested to do some small quick releases in the short term. - How are things looking for a 2.6.2? - Items that didn't make it into 2.6.1: - DNS directive. - DCO control channel switch (DCO 0.2xx). - DCO + compression patch. - We should also add in the fix for auth-pending. - And add in --inactive support for DCO. - And PKCS11-helper bugfix. - And a memory leak fix. - Have to remember to ask Debian maintainer to pick up a version of OpenVPN 2.6.x that includes the DCO control channel switch. - **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve OpenSSL/mbedTLS licensing issues** - In discussion with the legal expert, it was thought to be a good idea to send in the license change as a PR. - 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. - A next step would be to reach out to individual developers to get approvals. - **Blog post for OpenVPN 2.6 release on main site** - This is here: [OpenVPN 2.6 Blog Post](https://openvpn.net/blog/openvpn-2-6) - A real press release by OpenVPN Inc. is also coming this week. - **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.** - For authentication, we've decided to: - Not accept anonymous submissions. - Do authentication via LDAP now. - Add GitHub later as an extra. - Uddr will write a document that describes the future workflow for company and community people. - To be reviewed in 2 weeks from now. - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)?** - Yes, Matt is currently working on it in [GitHub Issue 595](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595) - 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. ## Topics on standby - **Website release process woes** - Website team did not deliver solution as promised in February. They now promise this month. We shall see. - **SBOM topic** - Cron2 was asked if OpenVPN has a Software Bill of Materials. 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. - **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. - **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. - **[OpenVPN Quickstart](https://openvpn.net/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.