Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 27 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.
  Planned release date for 2.7 beta1 updated to September 4th. These are some known remaining tasks:
  lev is working on broken "bytecount" functionality when using Windows DCO in server mode.
  Epoch data keys for Linux DCO and Windows DCO can be done in a minor release after 2.7.0.
  However ralf_lici is already looking into adding it into the Linux DCO right now.
  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.

• New: wolfSSL license changed from gplv2 to gplv3
  The release notes of wolfSSL indicate the license changed to GPLv3.
  This basically makes wolfSSL incompatible in regards to licensing with OpenVPN.
  plaisthos will open an issue with them to either remove OpenVPN support or give a solution to remain licensing compatible.
  maxf has reached out to wolfSSL about this, and will wait a bit before adding a warning to README.wolfssl about this licensing incompatibility.

• Updated: t_server and t_client testing framework
  mattock reports progress on building automated testing environment for really old OpenVPN versions.
  This covers tests for versions going back to 2.2.

• 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.

• 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.