wiki:Topics-2023-02-15

Basic info

  • Time: Wednesday 15 february 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

  • Planning to have a new release of OpenVPN 2.6 around March 8th.
  • 2.6 release - any new feedback, anything vital?
    a DCO with BSOD on systems with legacy standby modes, lev reproduced and fixed it.
    azure vpn gateway has their own implementation of openvpn that is incompatible with 2.6.
    lev contacted them and offered to help to find and resolve the problem.
    we should prepare an I005 release today and get that pushed out.
  • License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues
    current status is that we know for sure from legal expert that an exception addition is necessary.
    a refined and lawyer approved proposal is ready to be sent to the mailing list.
  • Hackathon blog post on openvpn website is ready
    this is about the hackathon in delft in november.
    community review is requested - if it's good to go it will be published.
  • Press release of 2.6
    in progress. draft was made and edited by community quite a bit.
    it will now go to openvpn marketing team for polishing and publishing.
  • Review DCO-for-Linux release status
    working on making control packets go through transport socket instead of netlink. easy for udp, not so easy for tcp.
    looks like ordex will have this change ready for the upcoming 2.6.1 release. we'll rename dco module to ovpn-dco2 then.
    then next item is TCP notification missing under heavy load bug. will retest after control channel moved to socket.
  • Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.
    gerrit proof of concept is online.
    goal seems to have settled on - we want to keep existing mailing list since not everyone will be using gerrit. but gerrit will add easier review abilities.
    so gerrit has to send emails to mailing list, pick up patches from mailing list, and review responses to emails sent to mailing list should feed also into gerrit
    uddr will set up a poc with dummy repo so we can start testing out some email functionality of gerrit.
  • Website release process woes
    work started on an API to allow updates at any time on main website for the community downloads section.

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.
    there was some trouble with him getting credentials but that should be resolved now.
    last known status is that it is waiting for approval from ecrist
  • Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around end of March
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • IPv6 to community.
    No new information to report.
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