Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 14 December 2022 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

• 2.6 beta feedback, 2.6 beta2 release on Thursday, December 15th?

Counter patches on the list, cron2 would like to include them in beta2, especially lev's patches for Windows. Plan is to tag beta2 Thursday at about 15:00 CET. This should give djpig enough time to produce binaries. Downloads will now be published at wiki:Downloads to avoid dependency on Corp website team. There are a few issues reported at GitHub?, mostly around renegotiation. Some are sadly not very usable.

• 2.6 MSVC toolchain, update to VS 2022? Windows Server 2022?

Not for beta2. But might try to do before 2.6.0 release. lev will send patches.

• openvpn-build/generic and openvpn-build/windows-nsis: unmaintained. Should those be removed?

lev says yes, they are unmaintained. djpig will include a note in the next release announcements and post notes in the related GitHub issues to raise awareness.

• pkcs11-helper dynamic loader flags: yes/no(/cancel), add patch to openvpn/contrib to get support/exposure in 2.6(.0/beta2)?

becm needs someone to review the pkcs11-helper patches on the list so we can merge them before beta2. plaistos said he might be able to take a look after some work he is currently doing on his app. Patch to vcpkg-ports adds support for the feature before next pkcs11-helper release, so that Windows installers provide more consistent behavior over 2.6.x lifetime.