# Basic Info - **Time:** Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) - **Place:** #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network # Topics ## Current Topics - **Release planning for 2.6.2 - planned for 23 March** - Items that didn't make it into 2.6.1: - DNS directive needs some acks. - DCO control channel switch (dco 0.2xx) is done. - DCO + compression patch needs acks. - Auth-pending control channel issue is done. - Add in -inactive support for DCO is done. - Memory leak fix is done. - PKCS11-helper bugfix is done. - 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** - Current status is that individual contributors are being contacted, and approvals gathered. - **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.** - There's a workflow proposal [here](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Proposed%20Gerrit%20Workflow). - It was agreed to review this next week. - **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer windows traybar logos (#1276)?** - Matt is currently working on it in [GitHub OpenVPN-GUI issues](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595). - Selva had some comments about the icons, Matt has been pinged to look into it. - **IPv6 to community.** - Cloudflare IPv6 compatibility is turned off on openvpn.net because the company is worried it might break something. - Ultimatum from community: Give us a date when IPv6 will be turned on, or we move to another domain. ## Topics on Standby - **Website release process woes** - The 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. - 2.6 refactor. - 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, a 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.