# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 30 July 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

# Topics

- **New: build failures**  
  Changes in Gerrit do not automatically pick up fixes from master, so sometimes we see a lot of build failures even though those are fixed in master.  
  Some options were discussed, seems like the one preferred is to reject pushes that are behind. djpig will look into it.  

- **New: Reference manuals OpenVPN 2.x**  
  There was a mistake made on the main website which for a few hours? or days? made the reference manual 404.  
  This has been restored. However the URL will slightly change in the future, but a redirect on the old URL will be in place.  
  mattock raised the question where the latest OpenVPN man page should be hosted.  
  When discussing this we agreed that djpig will contact the technical writer for openvpn.net and see if the ingestion/updating process can be smoother.  
  Independently we can also investigate getting the manuals on the wiki somewhere, perhaps automated.  

- **Updated: push_update / live route updates**  
  Client-side support for push_update is now merged.  
  For server-side support, company did QA on it with openvpn2 but found some missing features that are being added now.  
  At least client-side support will probably make it into alpha3.  

- **Updated: Release 2.7**  
  A 2.7 alpha3 release is planned for 31 July.  
  This includes a fix for a couple of rare crashes on Windows DCO driver. We'll backport these fixes to the Windows installer for 2.6.  
  The FreeBSD patch for float is now in review.  
  For the DCO related changes, DCO+TCP is improving. Epoch data keys still needs to be done, mssfix not planned yet.  

- **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.  

- **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.  

 - **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.