Introduction

This page shows the high-level status of OpenVPN 2.4 release. If you want all the details, see the Active Tickets by Milestone report.

must have

Task description	Assigned to	Status
t_client-style "test all windows specific options" testbed on windows	???	very basic scripts + profiles done. powershell work by Samuli. Windows testing page: WindowsTesting
make openvpnserv2 use exit-events	mattock	research started, tracked ​here
re-indent formatting	???	last thing before we release, requires lots of manual work
bundle OpenSSL 1.0.2 on Windows	mattock	not started, but should be trivial

minor, but "we should try to make it happen"

Task description	Assigned to	Status
recursive routing fixup	lev	patch v4 on list, tested with t_client (tun+tap+p2p)
tftp/wpad patch	jjk	patch on list, needs review and merge
test server that does --auth-user-pass and/or challenge stuff	cron2 (snair)	not started
support TLS record splitting (like ovpn3)	syzzer	#554 (not started)
update auth-user-pass docs	mattock	not started, discussion ​here
support OpenSSL 1.1	syzzer (?)	not started

undefined priority

Task description	Assigned to	Status
combined i686/x96_64 Windows installers	chipitsine/mattock	PR ready, but in mattock's tests it had some issues

work needed

• trac tickets (2.3.x, 2.4.x, unclassified)

major items already done

• ifconfig-before-open reversal patch for windows fixed (argv_printf) and merged
• openvpnserv2 integration
• pushable ciphers, and cipher negotiation
• true dual-stack operation (2.3 has "dual single-stack")
• interactive service + openvpn-gui integration
• IPv6 route-gateway redirection
• AEAD cipher
• cipher negotiation (for all but a few corner cases)
• peer-id (server and client, 2.3 has only client)
• compression v2 = more efficient alignment
• unified TCP timeout handling (Arne v3)
• new buildbots for FreeBSD 10.3, NetBSD 7.0.1, OpenBSD 6.0, MacOS X, various recent Linux versions
• --multihome fixed on BSD/amd64 architectures, tested by buildbots