# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 17 September 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

# Topics

- **Updated: Release 2.7**  
  OpenVPN 2.7 beta2 was planned for 18th of September but will be shifted to early next week instead.  
  Reason is there's some concern and discussion about a recently merged bit of code that must be cleared up first.  

- **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.  
  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.  
  We're giving them time to figure out this exception.   

- **New: small change to merge procedure**  
  cron2 mentioned that the mail archive site mail-archive.com has been acting up and some patch messages not even arriving there.  
  That undermines the idea we have that you can always go back to the mail archive to see discussions on patches there.  
  On top of links to mail archives cron2 will also include in the commit messages links to the review platform Gerrit that we use.  

- **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.  
  Current status is we have asked Matt the designer to come up with a t-shirt design.  

- **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.  

- **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.