# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 17 December 2025 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

# Topics

- **Reminder: cancelled meetings**  
  On December 24 and December 31 there will be no community meetings, for obvious reasons.  

- **Updated: Release 2.7**  
  Release 2.7rc4 is being shipped today.  
  The stable release is tentatively planned for January 14.  

- **Updated: forums situation**  
  Eduardo from website team is currently working on the forums.  
  Latest news is that a recent database import worked, and various nonsense HTML tags were cleaned up.  
  The password reset doesn't work yet so that's being looked into.  
  Currently this new forum is not available to the public yet.  
  Current estimate is being able to switch to new forums in Q1 2026 somewhere.  
 
 - **Updated: mbedTLS**  
   mbedTLS 4 does things quite differently, and the legacy stuff from mbedTLS 2 is in the way.  
   So an effort is underway to rip out the mbedTLS 2 stuff and replace it with mbedTLS 4 stuff.  
 
- **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.  
  
- **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.