= Basic info =

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

= Topics =

== Current topics ==

* **Release planning for 2.6.3 - april 13**\\''we have a crashbug in 2.6.2 that affects Linux users that use DCO and NetworkManager ("sometimes").''

* **When going back to normal operating mode?**\\''new features and refactors in master,\\bugfixes to master + release/2.6,\\serious bugfixes also ported to 2.5\\\\this would hit the selva pkcs11 unit test series first''

* **Status of PoC using Gerrit for code review.**\\''there's a workflow proposal here: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/Proposed%20Gerrit%20Workflow \\this was reviewed 2 weeks ago\\want to have something like this appear on the mailing list:\\initial patch notification mail, daily digest mail, final patch+discussion+who acked mail\\''

* **Security assessment of OpenVPN2 codebase.**\\''need to review security assessment, see if we are in agreement about it.\\dazo will reach out to cron2 about this to gather his feedback.''

* **IPv6 to community.**''\\cloudflare ipv6 compatibility is turned off on openvpn.net because company is worried it might break something.\\community wants date when this is resolved.\\novaflash working to get a date that company will commit to.\\informally head of ops sees it as being turned on in 'about a month'. but will work to get a date we can hold him to.''

* **security@openvpn.net mailing list**''\\company is trying to get to soc2 compliance.\\probably will need a simple nda to be signed by recipients of emails to security@openvpn.net\\this seems reasonable, company will investigate and prepare such a thing.''

* **Have to remember to update SupportedVersions to put 2.4 out of support at around end of March**''\\yeah we'll update this''

* **License amendment for OpenVPN2 to solve openssl/mbedtls licensing issues**\\''current status is that individual contributors are being contacted, and approvals gathered.''

== Topics on standby ==

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

* **Website release process woes**\\''website team did not deliver solution as promised in february. then march. still not delivered. now they promise april. we will 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.''

* **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.''