# Basic info - **Time**: Wednesday 29 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC) - **Place**: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network # Topics ## Current topics ### Release planning for 2.6.3 - tentatively April 12 - We have a crash bug in 2.6.2 that affects Linux users that use DCO and NetworkManager ("sometimes"). ### When going back to normal operating mode? - New features and refactors in master, - Bugfixes to master + release/2.6, - Serious bugfixes also ported to 2.5. - This would hit the selva pkcs11 unit test series first. ### Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review - There's a workflow proposal here: [Proposed Gerrit Workflow](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Proposed%20Gerrit%20Workflow) - It was agreed to review workflow this week. - Want to have something like this appear on the mailing list: - Initial patch notification mail, daily digest mail, final patch+discussion+who acked mail. ### Security assessment of OpenVPN2 codebase - Need to review security assessment, see if we are in agreement about it. - Dazo will reach out to cron2 about this to gather his feedback. ### IPv6 to community - Cloudflare IPv6 compatibility is turned off on openvpn.net because the company is worried it might break something. - Community wants a date when this is resolved. - Novaflash working to get a date that the company will commit to. - Informally head of ops sees it as being turned on in 'about a month', but will work to get a date we can hold him to. ## Topics on standby ### License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve OpenSSL/mbedTLS licensing issues - Current status is that individual contributors are being contacted, and approvals gathered. ### Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer Windows traybar logos (#1276)? - Matt is currently working on it in [this GitHub issue](https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595). ### 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. 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. ### 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 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.