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Introduction
This page shows the high-level status of OpenVPN 2.5 release. If you want all the details, see the Active Tickets by Milestone report.
Schedule
As we missed our original deadline (Debian Buster freeze) we don't have a schedule yet, except "in year 2020". Nevertheless, the release will proceed as follows:
- 2.5_beta1 (late March)
After this date, no new features allowed, stabilising starts for real. Some minor "nice to have patches" might be accepted after evaluation/discussion on IRC; but should be avoided. Man page processing will be converted from the current groff formatting to a markdown formatting right before beta tagging.
- ??? - 2.5_beta2 (optional)
Only patches related to stabilising and important bug-fixes are allowed after this point. No more "nice to have patches" after this point. If we have no bug fixes or otherwise stabilizing code this release can be skipped.
- ??? - 2.5_rc1
Only really needed and critical bug fixes allowed.
- ??? - 2.5_rc2
Branching out release/2.5 happens here.
- 2.5.0 Final release.
Deadline: To be determined
- Code freeze on March 31st, 2020 (based initially on discussions in Trento hackathon, postponed in IRC meeting on 4th March 2020)
- 2.5.0 release on June 1st, 2020
Features/fixes to include
must have
| Task description | Assigned to | Status | Ticket |
| Purge NSIS installers (migrate to MSI installers) | mattock | ??? | #1122 |
| Implement asymmetric compression | plaisthos | pending, need updated patch + review (syzzer/cron2) | ? |
| async client-connect support | plaisthos + ordex | pending, needs more review + work | - |
| man page formatting change | dazo | pending, will be done right before beta release | - |
"we should try to make it happen" (but will likely not make it)
| Task description | Assigned to | Status | Ticket |
| IPv6-only server | ordex | server support is pending review | #208 |
| support for multiple-protocol sockets (UDP/TCP) | ordex | wip | |
| Support for multiple sockets (multi-port/multi-IP) | ordex | pending review | #556 |
| Dynamic routes ('route in ccd-file'), depends on netlink support | ??? | ??? | |
| transport plugin (primary use case: obfuscation) | ordex | wip | |
| tftp/wpad patch | jjk | patch on list, needs review and merge | |
| support TLS record splitting (like ovpn3) | syzzer | (started, but no patches available yet) | #554 |
| Allow OpenVPN to communicate to peers via a Linux VRF | - | updated patches need review + ML submission | |
| test server that does --auth-user-pass and/or challenge stuff | cron2 (snair) | not started | |
| update auth-user-pass docs | mattock | not started, discussion here | |
| Update OpenVPN PRF (move away from SHA1/MD5) | syzzer | not started | |
| maybe: add PRF plugin interface | ??? | ??? | |
| maybe: add key exchange plugin interface (allows easily doing .e.g post quantum kex) | ??? | ??? | |
| maybe: add data channel separation (or, move to ovpn3, which already has this?) | ??? | ??? | |
| maybe: fix radius-plugin - plugin is useful but not maintained very well | ??? | ??? | |
| improve control channel performance | syzzer | ??? |
work needed
- trac tickets (2.4.x, 2.5.x, unclassified)
- MSI testing and user documentation
items already done
- remove ENABLE_CRYPTO
- ChaCha20-Poly1305 support for the data channel
- tls-crypt-v2 (#1121)
- MSI packaging
- struct argv overhaul
- Wintun support
- Auth failure messages back to client
- #6 - VLAN patch set
- #1123 - Netlink support (includes route.c / tun.c refactoring)
TODO: update list
