# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 1 October 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 released 25 September.  
  It looks like next up will be a beta3, after which a stable release is expected.  
  
- **New, closed: verify signature page**  
  During the revamp of the community pages on the main openvpn.net website the instructions on how to verify the GPG signature was lost.  
  We brought it back under the community.openvpn.net wiki's downloads page here; https://community.openvpn.net/Downloads/Verify%20signature  

- **New, closed: gerrit updated**  
  Gerrit review system was updated. If there are any issues please let uddr35 know on IRC.  

- **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 are still waiting for a resolution, it has been several weeks now. We reached out again to wolfSSL.  
  If there is no resolution by 15th of October, then we will proceed with our OpenVPN 2.7 release plans without wolfSSL support.  

- **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.