Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 3 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• 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: Naples, Italy.
  Meeting room: https://www.hotelparadisonapoli.it/en/home-page.aspx
  Hotel: Paradiso Napoli Hotel.
  Beer: yes.
  T-shirts: yes.
  Invites were sent to openvpn-devel and some selected individuals. If we missed anyone please reach out.

• Updated: forums situation
  minx offered to set up a new forum and help us migrate old data to it.
  We have a new setup with flarum at a hidden location and we're trying to get the old forums data in there.
  The tool for that called nitroporter had some difficulty, partially because the database is just so huge, but there is some progress.
  Sad news; minx left openvpn inc. however, he does still want to try to get this working and is helping us still.
  Once the migration is done, we can run some tests, and see if it meets our standards. Then we can plan a cutover date.
  To the question where the instance should be hosted, community indicates it should be under the community AWS infrastructure.
  To the question what authentication system should be used, community indicates it should just be the built-in system from the forum solution itself.

• Updated: 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.
  An issue was opened on github and we received a response to give them some time to come up with a solution https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/issues/9143

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.