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# Basic info
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* Time: Wednesday 19 November 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
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* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network
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# Topics
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- **Updated: Release 2.7**
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OpenVPN 2.7rc2 went out containing among other things 2 CVE fixes.
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CVE-2025-12106: IPv6 address parsing: fix buffer overread on invalid input
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CVE-2025-13086: HMAC verification check: fix incorrect memcmp() call
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The latter of these two also applies to the 2.6 branch, therefore a 2.6.16 release was done.
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- **Updated: Release 2.6.16**
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Some of the issues for 2.7 also affected 2.6 code, therefore 2.6.16 with a fix for a CVE issue was released.
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CVE-2025-13086: HMAC verification check: fix incorrect memcmp() call
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- **Updated: 2.7 security audit**
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ordex arranged mostly through STF funding to get a security audit of OpenVPN 2.7 (currently in release candidate phase).
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Recently this has kicked off and 2.7 is being put through the meat grinder now by SRLabs.
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We are processing these reports as well as reports from ZeroPath and addressing concerns raised.
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- **Updated: t_server and t_client testing framework**
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mattock asked where to put the t_server stack as it is currently on ordex's open source fund funded AWS account but funds might dry up there.
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Discussed option to move it to OpenVPN Inc. funded AWS community account. Will explore this option.
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- **community meetup 2026**
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Tentatively in Paderborn, Germany.
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- **forums situation**
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minx from OpenVPN Inc. originally set up flarum and started migration process, but he left the company before completion.
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Now we have eduardo at OpenVPN Inc. who is taking a look and he managed to get migration working.
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He suggests some further migration testing, and to then plan a hard cutover date.
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Current time schedule somewhere in November or December.