# Basic info

* Time: Wednesday 18 February 2026 at 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

# Topics

- **Updated: forums situation**  
  For a long time now the current forums have been dysfunctional. But we kept the content around because many people benefit from the responses given there for common issues.  
  Nowadays though we have a new forum ready to replace the old one. We intend to do this replacement this week.  
  Expect that there will be some downtime with some 'under maintenance' message for a short while.  
  After that the new forums should be online. All the data will be migrated (including the spam).  
  Our intention is to then cleanup afterwards and improve things further with a fully functional new forum system.  
  Since we will be leaving the current LDAP authentication system behind, everyone will need to reset their passwords.  
  We will leave instructions and information on the new forums.  

- **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/  - plaisthos will enquire for details.  
  Pre-meeting-social-outing-activity: https://www.hnf.de/en/home.html old computer museum, on the friday before.  
  
- **Updated: OpenVPN 2.7 release**  
  So far after release things have been fairly quiet.  
  ralf_lici pointed out that now the new backported DCO ovpn linux kernel code is being used instead of the previous DCO iteration, we want to spend some time on automating tests.  

- **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.