Company is finetuning new design together with lev, ordex, and novaflash.

Expected to be published in the next few weeks.

- **Updated: forums situation**

The current forums are not maintained, not working well, and flooded with spam.

We have a contributor (minx) with web development experience willing to set up something new, but migrate the old forum contents.

To the question where the instance should be hosted, community indicates it should be under the community AWS infrastructure.

To the question what authentication system should be used, community indicates it should just be the built-in system from the forum solution itself.

- **New: (embargo) security issue**

CVE to be registered yet.

We'll do just an updated build for 2.6 to address this issue.

And 2.7 can get an alpha-2 release that includes the fix for this issue.

Estimated delivery date 18 june 2025.

- **Updated: Release 2.7**

OpenVPN 2.7 alpha2 expected 18 june 2025 (includes embargoed security issue fix).

For the DNS related changes, the macOS DNS script and the compatibility code is yet to be merged.

For the DCO related changes, Windows server support is done, epoch data keys being worked on in both Linux and Windows.

For the live route updates changes, it is likely that this will not make it into 2.7.

- **Updated: OpenVPN community meetup 2025**

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

When: weekend of 25 and 26 october.

Where: Napoli, Italy.

Meeting room: giaan found a location, pricing to be determined/approved.

Hotel: giaan will take a look into this.

Beer: yes.