Basic info

Topics

Updated: 2.7.x release
A few more security fixes are coming in 2.7.8, and this is planned for October 1st.
Updated: 2.6.x release
2.6.23 is going to be released today.
It contains a number of small security fixes and bug fixes.

test latency and MTU in openvpn
A new feature is proposed for adding to master; ability to do latency and MTU tests in the OpenVPN protocol.
This would allow for a client to for example select the best available server based on test results.
This is currently under review: https://gerrit.openvpn.net/q/topic:%22oob-server-probe%22
The design document is here: https://github.com/lstipakov/openvpn/blob/server-probe-design/design-server-probe.md
community meetup 2026
Coordination is currently taking place here: https://community.openvpn.net/Meetups/2026-Paderborn
The date is around 17 and 18 October, location in Paderborn, Germany.
For the t-shirt we have some idea of what to do. Will check with designer if he can do it for us.
2.7 security audit
The security audit was completed for 2.7.0 and results are available internally.
We are working to publish this in an official blog post. ordex and novaflash are driving this in OpenVPN Inc. internally.

Coordinating big changes
A related discussion is how to handle big changesets (e.g. currently the multipeer changes from plaisthos and the oob changes from lev). There was some unhappiness that these changesets are dropped without sufficient context and that makes it hard to keep track of all the developments. One advise is that developers that want to have big (or many) changes merged are encouraged to write a mail to the mailing list to provide a "cover letter" for the patch set and a convenient place to discuss the overall direction without getting bogged down in the discussion of individual changes. We have lost this practice since not generally using mail-based patchsets anymore. That can be also a good opportunity to point out dicussions happening in PRs for the RFC document.