Company reached out to novaflash about proposed changes.

novaflash involved ordex and lev__ for feedback/ideas.

It's about cleaning up and revamping the community section, remove old releases, focus on latest release, and so on.

Feedback from last time was incorporated: 'community' item was moved out of main menu. Community gave feedback; it was moved back to main menu.

Renaming of Community to open source can be done partially - got pushback from openvpn inc CEO to rename community to open source in the main menu. Rest of places we can update it though to mention open source.

Basic idea is to revamp the community page on main website so it shows just the main download artifacts and release notes of latest version, plus where community resources can be found, plus where developers can be reached. A list of resources and contact methods has been collected and while not set in stone will be passed for an initial design to be reviewed later.

Current estimates are to have all major code items in by May 1st and then a release on July 1st.

Together with 2.7 a new Linux DCO module based on upstreamed (linux kernel) codebase will be released, the code for this is done, bugs being fixed.

Together with 2.7 a new Windows DCO module with server support will be released. The code for this is done but needs more testing.

DNS changes are mostly in but some issues are still found on Windows and need to be addressed.

Currently we feel that it looks reasonable to do a 2.7 alpha release next week.

For the actual release we should still do a reformatting to clang-format so master and 2.7 have the same formatting. Otherwise backporting bugfixes will be a pain.

- **Updated: DCO tasks**

Implementation of epoch data keys in user space in OpenVPN2 and OpenVPN3 are both done now. For Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD DCO this implementation still needs to happen.

lev__ has started work on epoch data keys in Windows DCO. Windows DCO has also support for server mode now so has some significant changes coming with 2.7.

Red Hat 9.6 introduced a change that breaks the current production DCO kernel module code. A fix for this is available now.

Programs that rely on this like Access Server and OpenVPN3 Linux will push out an updated DCO kernel module with this fix soonish.

There are still some bugfixes for the backport copy of linux kernel upstreamed version of DCO for 2.7 to be resolved.

- **Updated: OpenVPN community meetup 2025**

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CommunityMeetup2025

When: based on an availabilty poll and by agreement the weekend of 25 and 26 october as meeting days, with days before and after as travel days, seems best.

Where: Napoli, Italy.

Meeting room: giaan will take a look into this.

Hotel: giaan will take a look into this.

Beer: yes.