Basic info
- Time: Wednesday 14 December 2022 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
- Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network
Topics
- novaflash temporarily unavailable due to personal situation.
novaflash will be back to resume meeting duties next week.
- 2.6_beta2 release date
This will be released on December 15th.
- Status of OpenVPN 2.6 beta2 plans:
cron2 would like to include counter patches 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.
Beta downloads will for now be published at wiki:Downloads to avoid dependency on Corp website team.
Later when 2.6 is stable we can revert things again.
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 stable 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.
- OpenVPN2 build environment and improving it.
djpig is currently working on this. The company has decided to prioritize this task.
Code signing key was moved to an HSM system for increased security.
Further improvements to the build process are underway.
- License amendment for OpenVPN2 to accomodate mbedtls.
plaisthos made a first draft. plaisthos asked to get novaflash to ask francis and james to sign off on it.
In the meantime we need to compile a list of contributors and get ready to ask them to accept the changes.
This was delayed due to temporary unavailability of novaflash
- Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt
This is a task on novaflash, temporarily postponed due to unavailability of novaflash.
- As discussed in Hackathon we want to do a PoC with using Gerrit for code review.
This requires an environment to be setup and tuned. This is postponed until after 2.6 stable release.
- Forums machine on community infrastructure is only non-Linux system.
mattock made a new forums system that runs on rocky linux 8 as agreed with ecrist.
Currently waiting for ecrist to test if he has access and all is well before we're able to make the switch.
- Forums issues, permissions, layout.
Forums had issues with bread crumbs, inability to post due to malfunctioning spam plugin, and deleted posts cannot be reviewed in the usual way.
novaflash complains that forums are clogged up with deleted posts that never actually get deleted.
ecrist worked on these issues. Breadcrumbs are now working again. Malfunctioning spam plugin issue now seems to be resolved.
Agreed to use a board only visible for moderators/administrators to move all deleted posts so that the forums can finally be cleaned up from spam.
- IPv6 to community.
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