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| 2cbcaa | novaflash | 2025-09-17 11:49:57 | 1 | # Basic info |
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| 3 | * Time: Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC) |
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| 4 | * Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network |
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| 6 | # Topics |
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| 96958c | novaflash | 2025-09-17 11:50:25 | 8 | - **Updated: Release 2.7** |
| 641fba | novaflash | 2025-09-17 12:15:37 | 9 | OpenVPN 2.7 beta2 was planned for 18th of September but will be shifted to early next week instead. |
| c4ad7a | novaflash | 2025-09-17 12:16:00 | 10 | Reason is there's some concern and discussion about a recently merged bit of code that must be cleared up first. |
| 2cbcaa | novaflash | 2025-09-17 11:49:57 | 11 | |
| 12 | - **Updated: wolfSSL license changed from gplv2 to gplv3** |
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| 13 | The release notes of wolfSSL indicate the license changed to GPLv3. This basically makes wolfSSL incompatible in regards to licensing with OpenVPN. |
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| 14 | We reached out to WolfSSL and we got back a response indicating that other parties have also expressed similar concerns and an exception may be considered. |
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| 49a94b | novaflash | 2025-09-17 12:21:12 | 15 | We're giving them time to figure out this exception. |
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| 17 | - **New: small change to merge procedure** |
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| 18 | cron2 mentioned that the mail archive site mail-archive.com has been acting up and some patch messages not even arriving there. |
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| 19 | That undermines the idea we have that you can always go back to the mail archive to see discussions on patches there. |
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| e934ef | novaflash | 2025-09-17 12:26:09 | 20 | On top of links to mail archives cron2 will also include in the commit messages links to the review platform Gerrit that we use. |
| 2cbcaa | novaflash | 2025-09-17 11:49:57 | 21 | |
| 22 | - **OpenVPN community meetup 2025** |
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| 23 | https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CommunityMeetup2025 |
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| 24 | When: 25 and 26 october (Saturday and Sunday), with travel days on the Friday before and Monday after. |
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| 25 | Where: Naples, Italy. |
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| 26 | Meeting room: https://www.hotelparadisonapoli.it/en/home-page.aspx |
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| 27 | Hotel: Paradiso Napoli Hotel. |
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| 28 | Beer: yes. |
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| 29 | T-shirts: yes. |
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| 30 | Invites were sent to openvpn-devel and some selected individuals. If we missed anyone please reach out. |
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| 31 | Current status is we have asked Matt the designer to come up with a t-shirt design. |
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| 33 | - **forums situation** |
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| 34 | minx offered to set up a new forum and help us migrate old data to it. |
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| 35 | We have a new setup with flarum at a hidden location and we're trying to get the old forums data in there. |
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| 36 | The tool for that called nitroporter had some difficulty, partially because the database is just so huge, but there is some progress. |
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| 37 | Sad news; minx left openvpn inc. however, he does still want to try to get this working and is helping us still. |
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| 38 | Once the migration is done, we can run some tests, and see if it meets our standards. Then we can plan a cutover date. |
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| 39 | To the question where the instance should be hosted, community indicates it should be under the community AWS infrastructure. |
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| 40 | To the question what authentication system should be used, community indicates it should just be the built-in system from the forum solution itself. |
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| 42 | - **t_server and t_client testing framework** |
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| 43 | mattock reports progress on building automated testing environment for really old OpenVPN versions. |
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| 44 | This covers tests for versions going back to 2.2. |
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| 46 | - **push_update / live route updates** |
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| 47 | Client-side support for push_update is now merged. |
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| 48 | For server-side support, company did QA on it with openvpn2 but found some missing features that are being added now. |
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| 49 | Client-side support made it into alpha3. |
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| 51 | - **format code using clang formatting** |
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| 52 | It seems prudent to do this before the real 2.7 release. |
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| 53 | It was discussed and there's some additional work to be paid either on reviewer or submitter side. |
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| 54 | Strategy will be; get all code into beta1, collect bugfixes, reformat everything, then beta2. |
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| 55 | Collect more bugfixes and then do release 2.7.0 and branch it off into its own release branch. |
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| 57 | - **cve.mitre.org deprecation notice** |
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| 58 | 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. |
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| 59 | novaflash made an internal company ticket to update links on the main site. |
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| 60 | novaflash search/replaced all the CVE links on community wiki to the new address. |