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?
  did we perhaps forget to update anything else in regards to this release?

• Release planning for 2.6.2
  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.
  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 could be to now reach out via email to individual developers, possibly?

• 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.
  seems like we've reached a point where some workflow changes need to be discussed.

• 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.