Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 6 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• Updated: Release 2.7
  A 2.7 alpha3 release went out last week.
  This includes a fix for a couple of rare crashes on Windows DCO driver. This was backported to the installer for 2.6.14.
  Another further small fix (driver fix for recursive routing issue) will be included in 2.6.14 Windows installer version i004 later today.
  The FreeBSD patch for float is now in review.
  The tentative plan for release is now:
  August 20: beta1
  September 3: release candidate 1
  September 17: stable release
  These are some known remaining tasks:
  Epoch data keys for Linux DCO and Windows DCO - can be done in a minor release after 2.7.0.
  Small fix to check message id/acked ids too when doing sessionid cookie checks - should go into 2.7.0.
  PUSH_UPDATE review and server-side support - cron2 wants to discuss changes.
  mi prefix handling, int/uint fixes, and the new 'real route' gateway handling

• 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.
  Client-side support made it into alpha3.

• 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.