Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 13 August 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• Updated: Release 2.7
  DCO for Windows multipeer statistics driver part is done - userspace part is waiting review.
  The FreeBSD patch for float was merged, should show up in 14.4 probably.
  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

• Updated: OpenVPN community meetup 2025
  https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CommunityMeetup2025
  When: 25 and 26 october (saturday and sunday), with travel days on the friday before and monday after.
  Where: Napoli, Italy.
  Meeting room: https://www.hotelparadisonapoli.it/en/home-page.aspx sponsored by company.
  Hotel: Paradiso Napoli Hotel.
  Beer: yes.
  T-shirts: yes.
  Should send out invites. To include people like jan just, reynir, kristof, syzzer, max, rein, selva, perhaps leon from netgate who contributed multipeer to dco-win.
  novaflash will make a draft, let cron2 review it, then send it out to some peeps. If we forgot anyone we can forward a copy after.

• Updated: Github repo for open sourced MCP project
  MCP is a protocol that AI agents can speak, like a universal API, so that if other programs also speak MCP, then AI can work with it.
  Company is going to do some MCP project to work with CloudConnexa, maybe in the future Access Server.
  They want to open source this and ask for a repo to publish it in.
  This is a bit similar to this project; https://github.com/OpenVPN/terraform-provider-cloudconnexa which was started elsewhere but got published to open source.
  Seems like community has no objections to this, so will relay that approval back to company.

• 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.

• 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.