Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 28 December 2022 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

• 2.6 release plans
  We will do an OpenVPN 2.6 rc1 release.
  We have decided that we should do a release on the 28th of December.

• Status of current bugs?
  The crashbug with TCP seems to be solved.
  There are notification issues regarding status of client connected or not between 2.6 and kernel module.
  Must solve before jan 15th: Seems DCO is not sending a signal to user space when a tcp client disconnects or gets connection reset. This is a task for ordex.

• 2.6 MSVC toolchain, update to VS 2022? Windows Server 2022?
  This has been done and will be part of OpenVPN 2.6 rc1 release.

• 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.
  djpig overhauled openvpn-build, it now uses submodules for openvpn and openvpn-gui, and contains debian packaging scripts.
  Further improvements to the build process are underway.

• OpenVPN 2.6 performance results.
  Now that we have a beta out, and soon an rc1, we want to have an article on main site and press release about performance results.

Topics on standby

• 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.

• 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.
  novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.

• Management interface documentation on main website will be updated with info from doc/management-notes.txt
  novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.

• ​https://www-dev.openvpn.in/community-resources/openvpn-quickstart/ will be updated from /doc/man-sections/example-fingerprint.rst information.
  Static-key will be deprecated and contents updated with peer-fingerprint stuff.
  novaflash will pick this up again now that he is back.

• 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.

• IPv6 to community.
  No new information to report.