Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 3 December 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• Updated: Release 2.7
  Release 2.7rc3 was released on 28 November and addresses a local DoS in Windows interactive service.
  This fix was also made available in a 2.6.17 release.
  Note that for 2.5 branch we did put the fix in code but didn't build a new Windows installer, as that branch is out of support.
  We're pretty close to 2.7 being ready for a stable release.
  Currently however the signing key we use for Windows builds is expiring so we need to get a new one first.
  Tentatively an rc4 will be coming on December 17. And followed by stable tentatively on January 14.

• Updated: Release 2.6.17
  The same local DoS in Windows interactive service was also fixed in 2.6 and was released with 2.6.17.
  Also with release 2.6.16 compatibility with Windows 7 was accidentally broken and this should now be fixed.

• community meetup 2026
  Where: Tentatively in Paderborn, Germany.
  Meeting room: Potentially https://www.welcome-hotels.com/en/hotels/paderborn/events/
  Beer: recommendation against local paderborner beer, although it is cheap.

• t_server and t_client testing framework
  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.
  Discussed option to move it to OpenVPN Inc. funded AWS community account. Will explore this option.
  Needs to be picked up by either djpig or uddr.

• 2.7 security audit
  ordex arranged mostly through STF funding to get a security audit of OpenVPN 2.7 (currently in release candidate phase).
  Recently this has kicked off and 2.7 is being put through the meat grinder now by SRLabs.
  We are processing these reports as well as reports from ZeroPath and addressing concerns raised.

• 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.
  Current time schedule somewhere in November or December.

Backlog

• Tunnelcrack progress (see TunnelCrack community wiki article)
  Status update on TunnelCrack mitigations:
  The tunnelcrack mitigation for Windows has gone in master, which will go to 2.7 release. There is the possibility for it to go to 2.6.x if we can find testers for this.
  Windows, openvpn2: block-local merged to master, not to 2.6.x. openvpn3: in code review.
  Linux, openvpn2: in progress. openvpn3: in progress.
  macOS: to be determined.
  iOS: to be determined.
  Android: not vulnerable.

• donation collection
  From earlier exploration it is clear that setting up a legal entity is not worth the expense at this point. We're just starting out with donations.
  What we can do is start out with an existing company that can collect the money and puts it to good community use. ordex volunteers to take this on.
  There are some options to consider. There may be existing solutions that we want to consider.
  PayPal seems overly expensive with all their fees.
  Stripe could be worth considering for credit card processing.
  GitHub Sponsors was mentioned as a possible solution, this is worth investigating.
  Open Collective was also mentioned, that needs some investigating how that exactly would work for us.