Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 5 November 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• Updated: Release 2.7
  OpenVPN 2.7 release candidate 1 was released 31st of October.
  There were some reports of bugs and issues, which are being fixed and prepared for the rc2 release.

• New: Release 2.6.16
  Some of the issues also affected 2.6 code.
  So a 2.6.16 release seems prudent, to coincide with similar/same fixes done in 2.7rc2.

• Updated, closed: 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, because OpenVPN is GPLv2 licensed.
  After a discussion between maxF, plaisthos, from OpenVPN community, and people from wolfSSL, a conclusion was reached.
  wolfSSL believes that an exception to allow linking wolfSSL with OpenVPN is sufficient. They will implement such an exception in their license.
  For us this means the topic is closed.

• New: community meetup 2026
  Tentatively in Paderborn, Germany.

• forums situation
  minx from OpenVPN Inc. originally set up flarum and started migration process, but he left the company before completion.
  Now we have eduardo at OpenVPN Inc. who is taking a look and he managed to get migration working.
  He suggests some further migration testing, and to then plan a hard cutover date.