wiki:Topics-2023-02-22

Basic info

  • Time: Wednesday 22 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?
    azure vpn gateway has their own implementation of openvpn that is incompatible with 2.6 and we contacted them and offered our help.
  • New --dns directive - when to publish that. Can it go in 2.6.1?
    d12fk is working on the new --dns directives and has gotten pretty far.
    he's now in the jungle of edge cases and corner cases.
    question is can this be added to 2.6.1 or should it wait until 2.7 or such?
    it seems the consensus is that new features can be added to 2.6.1 and maybe even 2.6.2.
    dynamic tls-crypt for example is also going into 2.6.1.
  • License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues
    a refined and approved by legal expert proposal for a license amendment was sent to mailing list.
    no reactions yet. we will have to contact the contributors one by one.
  • Press release of 2.6
    community rewrote the draft. this draft was further refined by community, and sent to team for publishing.
    there was confusion about what actually a press release is. from community point of view we just want the blog post. and that draft is done and sent for publishing.
    we don't need a paid press release with hyperbolic language to entice other journalists to write about it.
  • Review DCO-for-Linux release status
    ordex submitted code for testing and review that focuses on handling data channel in DCO and let control channel be handled by user space.
    looks like this change will be ready for the upcoming 2.6.1 release. then we'll rename dco module to ovpn-dco-v2.
    then next item is TCP notification missing under heavy load bug. will retest after this change.
  • Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.
    gerrit proof of concept is online.
    ordex and uddr are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing.
  • Website release process woes
    for the community downloads section some method is being worked on to provide fast update capability. website team promised 'before end of month'.

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.
    ecrist has looked at it but the current state of the migration is unknown.
  • 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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