# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 4 February 2026 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

# Topics

- **Updated: community meetup 2026**  
  When: the weekend of 17 and 18 october, 2026 (decided by poll https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/VnbRxE6iKdWECLbW)  
  Where: Paderborn, Germany.  
  Meeting room: Potentially https://www.welcome-hotels.com/en/hotels/paderborn/events/  
  Beer: recommendation against local paderborner beer, although it is cheap.  

- **Updated: Release 2.7**  
  We unfortunately had to deal with another issue so the stable release was again postponed.  
  OpenVPN 2.7rc6 was released 28 January.  
  The stable release 2.7.0 is currently planned for 11 February.  

- **Updated: Release 2.6.18**  
  A small bugfix release is planned for today.  

- **mbedtls support**  
  The plan is to get to mbedtls4 implementation in OpenVPN 2.7 in some version after 2.7.0.  
  In ongoing work MaxF reports that --dh is not possible/needed with mbedtls, so will come up with some solution for users with configs that have it.  

- **forums situation**  
  Eduardo from website team is currently working on the forums.  
  Due to holidays this was on hold for a bit but we're back on it now.  
  Most things work now, there are some inconveniences that will require manual intervention like removing spam posts and handling duplicate account issues.  
  We will continue to work on it and test it and make it ready for a big switch.  

- **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.