Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 16 July 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• Updated: Release 2.7
  Plan is to do a 2.7 alpha3 release next week.
  macOS DNS script is now considered done.
  For mbedTLS there were some questions about psa/crypto.h, seems we need to keep this. For float and DCO, kernel-side part is merged, user-space-side has 2 acks. For multisocket, a bug report came in, and a patch is up for review.
  For the DCO related changes, DCO+TCP is improving. Epoch data keys still needs to be done, mssfix not planned yet.
  For the live route updates changes, chances are improving that it may get in to 2.7 after all.

• minor issue on community.openvpn.net site
  While not causing critical issues, there are some cache related issues caused by cloudflare.
  This requires some finetuning of settings to solve issues like: Logging in requires to use query string parameter to defeat cache.
  Changes like enabling dark mode can linger in cache and affect other visitors.
  Sometimes pages added don't show in menu until cache is defeated in some way.
  The "are you human" screen is quite persistent and annoying, perhaps it can be fixed.
  novaflash is working with the company to look into finetuning the cloudflare settings to address these issues.

• format code using clang formatting
  It seems prudent to do this before the real 2.7 release.
  It was discussed and there's some additional work to be paid either on reviewer or submitter side.
  Strategy will be; get all code into beta1, collect bugfixes, reformat everything, then beta2.
  Collect more bugfixes and then do release 2.7.0 and branch it off into its own release branch.

• push_update / live route updates
  For client-side support, company did QA on it against the current only server implementation (cloudconnexa) and it works as expected.
  cron2 will put reviewing it on his to-do list.
  Server-side support patch is up and requires review and is a bit more involved, lev__ and company QA will work on it.

• cve.mitre.org deprecation notice
  The MITRE CVE site we are linking to for all CVE record references has a deprecation notice. Instead cve.org is being advised as the site to use from now on.
  novaflash made an internal company ticket to update links on the main site.
  novaflash search/replaced all the CVE links on community wiki to the new address.

• OpenVPN community meetup 2025
  https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CommunityMeetup2025
  When: weekend of 25 and 26 october.
  Where: Napoli, Italy.
  Meeting room: it looks like this may be it; https://www.hotelparadisonapoli.it/en/home-page.aspx we will work to get budget cleared for this.
  Hotel: probably Paradiso Napoli. Beer: yes.
  T-shirts: yes.