On Wed, 20 May 2009, James Yonan wrote:
> We are very close to 2.1. I know there's been some discussion about the
> Windows client GUI, whether it deserves to live in 2.1. We do have a
> new client GUI that we've developed as a part of our Access Server
> product and we are open to releasing it with 2.1, however doing so would
> probably add more RC cycles to the 2.1 release.
>
> The other option is to just release what we have now, pending a week or
> so of testing on rc16, and get the new Windows client GUI into a
> post-2.1 release.
>
> Thoughts?
I'd suggest:
- decouple the Windows GUI from OpenVPN 2.1, that is:
+ release openvpn 2.1 without Windows GUI as soon as you believe it's done
* your changelog below suggests that RC16 needs more than just
a week of testing
+ stabilize (through beta and RC) the Windows GUI as a separate add-on
package (if you want, these test releases can then comprise 2.1_rc,
2.1.0, 2.1.1, ... whichever is current, for user convenience)
+ integrate GUI (if that's needed at all) in 2.2 or later.
Rationale: the GUI isn't critical to the release. It's an add-on.
>
> 2009.05.17 -- Version 2.1_rc16
>
> * Windows installer changes:
>
> 1. ifdefed out the check Windows version code which is causing
> problems on Windows 7
>
> 2. don't define SF_SELECTED if it is already defined
>
> 3. Use LZMA instead of BZIP2 compression for better compression
>
> 4. Upgraded OpenSSL to 0.9.8k
>
> * Added the ability to read the configuration file
> from stdin, when "stdin" is given as the config
> file name.
>
> * Allow "management-client" directive to be used
> with unix domain sockets.
>
> * Added errors-to-stderr option. When enabled, fatal errors
> that result in the termination of the daemon will be written
> to stderr.
>
> * Added optional "nogw" (no gateway) flag to --server-bridge
> to inhibit the pushing of the route-gateway parameter to
> clients.
>
> * Added new management interface command "pid" to show the
> process ID of the current OpenVPN process (Angelo Laub).
>
> * Fixed issue where SIGUSR1 restarts would fail if private
> key was specified as an inline file.
>
> * Added daemon_start_time and daemon_pid environmental variables.
>
> * In management interface, added new ">CLIENT:ESTABLISHED" notification.
>
> * Build fixes:
>
> 1. Fixed some issues with C++ style comments that leaked into the code.
>
> 2. Updated configure.ac to work on MinGW64.
>
> 3. Updated common.h types for _WIN64.
>
> 4. Fixed issue involving an #ifdef in a macro reference that breaks
> early gcc
> compilers.
>
> 5. In cryptoapi.c, renamed CryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey to
> OpenVPNCryptAcquireCertificatePrivateKey to work around
> a symbol conflict in MinGW-5.1.4.
