= Basic info =

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

= Topics =

== Current topics ==

* **Release of 2.6.1 was done last week**\\''we did release last week. but it seems there was no forum post. novaflash quickly added one but there is copr/fedora stuff missing.\\forum post seems to also be not at the top - no permissions to change this?\\we also forgot to send out an email''

* **Release planning for 2.6.2 - planned for 22 march**\\''in last week's meeting it was suggested to do some small quick releases in the short term.\\how are things looking for a 2.6.2?\\items that didn't make it into 2.6.1:\\--dns directive.\\dco control channel switch (dco 0.2xx).\\dco + compression patch.\\we should also add in the fix for auth-pending.\\and add in --inactive support for dco.\\and pkcs11-helper bugfix.\\and a memory leak fix.\\have to remember to ask debian maintainer to pick up a version of openvpn 2.6.x that includes the dco control channel switch.''

* **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues**\\''in discussion with the legal expert it was thought to be a good idea to send in the license change as a PR.\\this obviously won't just go in so easily until we have all the necessary approvals, but it was thought a good way to give it some attention.\\a next step would be to reach out to individual developers to get approvals.''

* **Blog post for OpenVPN 2.6 release on main site**\\''This is here: https://openvpn.net/blog/openvpn-2-6 \\a real press release by openvpn inc. is also coming this week.''

* **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.**\\''for authentication we've decided to;\\not accept anonymous submissions\\do authentication via ldap now\\add github later as an extra\\uddr will write a document that describes the future workflow for company and community people.\\to be reviewed in 2 weeks from now''

* **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 \\should we perhaps accept the current icon set and set up another ticket to go through another set of improvements? this seems to be what selva suggested.''

== Topics on standby ==

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

* **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''

* **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.''

* **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://openvpn.net/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.''