IrcMeetings

Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 5 February 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• New: OpenSSL update with vulnerability severity "HIGH" is dropping next week.
  This might not really affect us but we will likely have to do a 2.6.13 I002 binary for Windows.

• New: Windows MSI snapshots not updating
  lev asks if this can be looked at. will look into it.

• Updated: Release 2.7
  We want to get our release done before the next major Debian release.
  This means tentatively getting stuff for 2.7 done before March 1 or so, and release early April.
  Looking into a weird failure to deliver properly working openssl binary on amd64 on master.

• Updated: DCO Linux upstreaming
  Upstreaming DCO to Linux is proceeding, it is in review stage at the moment.
  Patchset v19 will be sent in after addressing some more comments, hopefully end of week.

• Updated: data format v3 / epoch data keys
  RFC is here: https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/rfc/pull/5
  PR: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/c/openvpn/+/806
  Implementation in OpenVPN3 is done.
  Implementation in OpenvPN2 is almost fully merged, has been tested, and has just one patch and ack to go. MaxF will review for final acks.

• Updated: multi-socket support
  https://gerrit.openvpn.net/q/topic:%22multisocket%22
  ordex and giaan continuing the work on this. Found a new problematic area that has to be dug into, this will take some time.

• Updated: DCO windows multi-peer
  lev is continuing his work on this, looks like it's nearing completion.

• Updated: new --dns option support
  https://gerrit.openvpn.net/q/topic:%22dns+option%22
  Certain issues were found during testing, these are being addressed.
  There's also a small bugfix coming for a case reported by an OpenVPN Inc. customer related to search domains.
  And after discussions between d12fk and plaisthos some adjustments will be made to how DNS config is applied.

• Updated: push_update / live route updates
  mrbff and ordex are implementing the openvpn2 server and client support for push_update.
  PR has approves, waiting review from cron2.

• Updated: community.openvpn.net wiki
  Some content has been copied over, perhaps not ideally but there's something.
  A couple of community folks have access now and we can start to work on this wiki replacement by adding content.
  A 404 page was added that explains that we are moving to a new wiki so in case people hit something that was removed or not moved over yet, people at least will know why.
  action item for novaflash; To continue migrating pages we want a list of hits over last 6 months or so.
  action item for novaflash; To do outgoing SMTP we need an account for an SMTP service.

• Updated: t_server_null improvements
  ovpnlwip seems to work fine on all linux platforms, based on buildbot tests.
  This is in cron2's backlog to review.