IrcMeetings

Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 8 January 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• New: 2.6.x release
  Plan to do a 2.6.13 next Wednesday with the assorted patches that are in release/2.6.

• Updated: DCO Linux upstreaming
  Upstreaming DCO to Linux is proceeding, it is in review stage at the moment.
  Patchset v13 and v14 followed really fast and v14 is now under review.
  Interesting news article appeared on the webs: Phoronix News on OpenVPN DCO

• Reminder: t_server_null improvements
  ovpnlwip seems to work fine on all linux platforms, based on buildbot tests.
  Waiting review. djpig promises to do it today.

• Updated: multi-socket support
  Now in review. Patchset v11 should be going out this week.
  Parts of the Patchset have been merged. Work ongoing.
  Gerrit multisocket

• Updated: new --dns option support
  Now in review. d12fk sent in patchset for new --dns option support.
  Gerrit DNS Option Support

• Updated: community.openvpn.net wiki
  A more suitable production deployment schema for otterwiki has been submitted upstream. That does not block us however.
  mattock has prepared some Puppet code to deploy otterwiki and says it should be ready.
  He asks for a reset of the host since he had some invasive changes and starting from scratch is easier and cleaner.
  uddr35 will assists with that.

• Updated: data format v3 / epoch data keys
  RFC is here: GitHub RFC Pull Request.
  plaisthos is working to implement it in openvpn3 first.
  MaxF reviewed the RFC and commented that it looks good.
  Patchset is in Gerrit: Gerrit Epoch Data

• Updated: DCO windows multi-peer
  lev has submitted a patchset for the userspace implementation.
  Gerrit DCO Windows Multi-peer

• Updated: Release 2.7
  Status of OpenVPN 2.7 development wiki page was updated with the results from Karlsruhe meetup.
  Want to do a first preview release as soon as possible, but need to get at least one of the big patch series in, preferably multi-socket.

• New: OpenVPN SEO
  There is a request from OpenVPN whether we could exclude build.openvpn.net and gerrit.openvpn.net from search engines to not muddle search.
  results for openvpn with developer-only resources. We will need more information about the actual problem they see before doing something like that.