Basic info

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New: cancelled meetings
On December 24 and December 31 there will be no community meetings, for obvious reasons.
Updated: Release 2.7
We have a new signing key so we are unblocked for further releases.
Tentatively an rc4 will be coming on December 17. And followed by stable tentatively on January 14.
Updated: 2.7 security audit
There are still things ongoing in regards to the security audit but no new major findings so far.
Still have items to review and go through, but this is ongoing.
Updated: forums situation
Currently website team from OpenVPN Inc is looking further into a migration to a new forum platform.
Question was raised what to do with forum avatars - suggested to just not migrate those as being irrelevant.
Current estimate is being able to switch to new forums in Q1 2026 somewhere.
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.