Basic info

• Time: Wednesday 08 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
• Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

• Release planning for 2.6.1 (planned today)
  are we good to do a 2.6.1 release?
  status on DCO? currently has issues to resolve still
  status on --dns directive? not fully ready but dns option changes d12fk would like to have in
  status on dynamic tls-crypt? this made it in
  status on dco + compression patch? some discussion still ongoing here
  plan for now is to 2.6.1 today and plan a 2.6.2 for next week or the week after with at the very least the dco changes in there but ideally also the dns and compression patch.
  we need to remember to ask debian maintainer then to pick up 2.6.2.

• SBOM topic
  cron2 was asked if openvpn has a software bill of materials. answer was no.
  coincidentally, in openvpn inc a security requirement is to have an SBOM so this is on our list of things to do
  when we pick up this task we can coordinate on it

• 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.
  developers will be contacted individually by plaisthos and dazo to try and get approvals.

• Press release of 2.6
  still waiting on blog post release - now planned for this week.

• Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.
  gerrit proof of concept is online.
  ordex, uddr, df12k, plaisthos, are trying it out together, inviting others to join in testing.
  any blockers/issues/suggestions?
  basically, so far so good.

• Website release process woes
  website team did not deliver solution as promised in february. they now promise this month. we shall see.

Topics on standby

• 2.7 plans, if any?
  are there any features that we have in mind that will not make it into 2.6.*?
  signal handling respin
  take everything apart and rebuild, 2.6 is made of duct tape
  bloom filter ddos reflection protection.

• Can we have someone at OpenVPN create nicer windows traybar logos (#1276)?
  yes matt is currently working on it in ​https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/issues/595

• 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.

• ​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 as time permits and other more important topics are done.

• IPv6 to community.
  No new information to report.