Meeting summary for 21 May 2025:
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*New: Changes to community pages on main website*
Company reached out to novaflash about proposed changes.
novaflash involved ordex and lev__ for feedback/ideas.
It's about cleaning up and revamping the community section, remove
old releases, focus on latest release, and so on.
Feedback from last time was incorporated: 'community' item was moved
out of main menu. Community gave feedback; it was moved back to main
menu.
Renaming of Community to open source can be done partially - got
pushback from openvpn inc CEO to rename community to open source in
the main menu. Rest of places we can update it though to mention
open source. Basic idea is to revamp the community page on main
website so it shows just the main download artifacts and release
notes of latest version, plus where community resources can be
found, plus where developers can be reached. A list of resources and
contact methods has been collected and while not set in stone will
be passed for an initial design to be reviewed later.
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*Updated: Release 2.7*
Current estimates are to have all major code items in by May 1st and
then a release on July 1st.
Together with 2.7 a new Linux DCO module based on upstreamed (linux
kernel) codebase will be released, the code for this is done, bugs
being fixed.
Together with 2.7 a new Windows DCO module with server support will
be released. The code for this is done but needs more testing.
DNS changes are mostly in but some issues are still found on Windows
and need to be addressed.
Currently we feel that it looks reasonable to do a 2.7 alpha release
next week.
For the actual release we should still do a reformatting to
clang-format so master and 2.7 have the same formatting. Otherwise
backporting bugfixes will be a pain.
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*Updated: DCO tasks*
Implementation of epoch data keys in user space in OpenVPN2 and
OpenVPN3 are both done now. For Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD DCO this
implementation still needs to happen.
lev__ has started work on epoch data keys in Windows DCO. Windows
DCO has also support for server mode now so has some significant
changes coming with 2.7. Red Hat 9.6 introduced a change that breaks
the current production DCO kernel module code. A fix for this is
available now.
Programs that rely on this like Access Server and OpenVPN3 Linux
will push out an updated DCO kernel module with this fix soonish.
There are still some bugfixes for the backport copy of linux kernel
upstreamed version of DCO for 2.7 to be resolved.
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*Updated: OpenVPN community meetup 2025*
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/CommunityMeetup2025
When: based on an availabilty poll and by agreement the weekend of
25 and 26 october as meeting days, with days before and after as
travel days, seems best.
Where: Napoli, Italy.
Meeting room: giaan will take a look into this.
Hotel: giaan will take a look into this.
Beer: yes.
T-shirts: yes.
As always you're welcome to join at #openvpn-meeting on Libera IRC
network every Wednesday at 14:00 Central European Time.
Kind regards,
Johan Draaisma
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