wiki:Topics-2023-03-22

Basic info

  • Time: Wednesday 22 March 2023 at 13:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • Place: #openvpn-meeting channel on LiberaChat IRC network

Topics

Current topics

  • Release planning for 2.6.2 - planned for 23 march
    items that didn't make it into 2.6.1:
    --dns directive needs some acks.
    dco control channel switch (dco 0.2xx) is done
    dco + compression patch needs acks
    auth-pending control channel issue is done
    add in -inactive support for dco is done
    memory leak fix is done
    pkcs11-helper bugfix is done
    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
    current status is that individual contributors are being contacted, and approvals gathered.
  • IPv6 to community.
    cloudflare ipv6 compatibility is turned off on openvpn.net because company is worried it might break something.
    ultimated from community: give us a date when ipv6 will be turned on, or we move to another domain.

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
    2.6 refactor
    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.
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