Basic info

• Time: Monday 30th Mar 2015, 20:00 CEST (18:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-devel channel on Freenode IRC network
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Topics

• OpenVPN 2.4
  • What is missing?
    • Interactive service
    • AEAD
    • Discuss TLS version negotiation if it is not ACKed before the meeting
    • The MacOS X keychain patch
      • The patch is ready, but there are Makefile changes which need work
    • Minor tunings to openvpn-gui.nsi / openvpn-build integration
      • The actual openvpn-gui.exe is not signed, can be fixed with some refactoring of openvpn-build
  • Candidates for inclusion
    • Replacement for Windows service wrapper (openvpnserv.exe)
      • Facts
        • It sucks badly
        • People complain and have complained about it more or less constantly for years
        • It is getting more broken with new Windows releases
          • Apparently it works really poorly on Windows 8 and later
        • Current developers do not know how to fix it
      • A better alternative might be ​nssm.exe
        • Generic service manager
        • Code under public domain
        • Actively maintained
        • ​openvpn-user discussion
        • ​openvpn-devel discussion
      • Do we move forward with nssm.exe?
  • Release date?
• OpenVPN 2.3.7 release
  • What is missing?
  • Candidates for inclusion
    • Openvpn with crytpodev on FreeBSD does not work
      • There is a workaround patch from syzzer, but it has not yet been tested sufficiently
    • FreeBSD topo subnet self-route not via loopback interface
  • Release date?

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