= Basic info =

* Time: Wednesday 25 January 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
* Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on !LiberaChat IRC network

= Topics =

== Current topics ==

* **Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer windows traybar logos (#1276)?**\\''yes, matt is working on it. however he got spam-blocked by trac and can't collaborate there for some reason.\\it was suggested we switch to github issues and continue there. novaflash and matt will create a new ticket and continue there.''

* **Press release of 2.6 to go out with stable release**\\''going to do a release of 2.6.0 today. it will go up on community.openvpn.net first and then tomorrow with the website release it will be on the main website instead.\\novaflash will work on pushing for a press release.''

* **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues**\\''current status is that francis and james are on-board, but developers are not understanding the need\\next step is dazo will contact a known open source lawyer and get motivation/story straight\\currently working on clearing funds for that with openvpn inc.''

* **As discussed in Hackathon we want to do a PoC with using Gerrit for code review.**\\''openvpn inc is working on setting up a poc for this.''

* **2.6 release plans**\\''going to do a stable release on january 25th\\lev's fixes for windows driver installation made it in.\\also permissions fix for scripting made it in.\\plaisthos' dynamic tls-crypt patches did not. pushed to 2.6.1.\\what about `SRV`? pushed to 2.6.1''

* **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.**\\''We should work on an article to publish some performance results when 2.6 is out as stable. but first press 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.\\ecrist indicated that he is missing some information, mattock provided this.''

== Topics on standby ==

* **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.''

* **IPv6 to community.**''\\No new information to report.''