Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[Frank Lichtenheld]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 08:41:38PM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 25.01.23 um 20:50 schrieb Frank Lichtenheld:
> > The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.0.
> > This is the new stable version of OpenVPN with some major new features.
> 
> Hi Frank,
> 
> OpenVPN 2.5.x releases also showed up in .tar.xz format - are there
> plans to provide these (and the detached GnuPG signatures) also for
> OpenVPN 2.6.0?

No, we decided that we see not enough benefit in providing these
differing compressions. The tarball is really not big enough for it
to matter.

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Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[Matthias Andree]

Am 25.01.23 um 20:50 schrieb Frank Lichtenheld:

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.0.
This is the new stable version of OpenVPN with some major new features.


Hi Frank,

OpenVPN 2.5.x releases also showed up in .tar.xz format - are there
plans to provide these (and the detached GnuPG signatures) also for
OpenVPN 2.6.0?

Cheers,
Matthias


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Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[David Sommerseth]

On 27/01/2023 12:32, André wrote:

Hi,

So download link in Forum Announcement should be corrected?
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=35260



Yes, thank you!  Updated!


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--- Original Message ---
On Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 01:53, David Sommerseth 
 wrote:



On 25/01/2023 20:50, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
[...snip...]


On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/




A slight update here. The repo above will be preserved for OpenVPN 2.5
releases. A new repository for OpenVPN 2.6 has been published:

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/



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Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[André via Openvpn-devel]

Hi,

So download link in Forum Announcement should be corrected?
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?t=35260






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--- Original Message ---
On Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 01:53, David Sommerseth 
 wrote:


> On 25/01/2023 20:50, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> [...snip...]
> 
> > On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.
> > 
> > https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/
> 
> 
> 
> A slight update here. The repo above will be preserved for OpenVPN 2.5
> releases. A new repository for OpenVPN 2.6 has been published:
> 
> https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/
> 
> 
> 
> --
> kind regards,
> 
> David Sommerseth
> OpenVPN Inc
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[David Sommerseth]

On 25/01/2023 20:50, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
[...snip...]


On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.





A slight update here.  The repo above will be preserved for OpenVPN 2.5 
releases.  A new repository for OpenVPN 2.6 has been published:





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[Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 2.6.0 released

[Frank Lichtenheld]

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.0.
This is the new stable version of OpenVPN with some major new features.

Changes since RC2:

* Various bugfixes, see 
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/v2.6.0/Changes.rst

Windows MSI changes since RC2:
* Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.36.0.0. See 
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn-gui/blob/v11.36.0.0/CHANGES.rst.
* DCO driver is now included as a installer module (msm) so that other products 
(like OpenVPN Connect) can share the DCO installation.

Some highlights of 2.6.0 are:

* Data Channel Offload (DCO) kernel acceleration support for Windows, Linux, 
and FreeBSD.
* OpenSSL 3 support, which is now the default on Windows.
* Improved handling of tunnel MTU, including support for pushable MTU.
* Outdated cryptographic algorithms disabled by default, but there are options 
to override
  if necessary.
* Reworked TLS handshake, making OpenVPN immune to replay-packet state 
exhaustion attacks.
* Added --peer-fingerprint mode for a more simplistic certificate setup and 
verification.
* Added Pre-Logon Access Provider support to OpenVPN GUI for Windows.
* Improved protocol negotiation, leading to faster connection setup.

More details can be found in the Changes document:



(The Changes document also contains a section with work-arounds for
common problems encountered when using OpenVPN with OpenSSL 3)

Source code and Windows installers can be downloaded from our download page:



(The Windows installers use OpenSSL 3 now)

(The Community Downloads page on openvpn.net

will probably be updated tomorrow).

Debian and Ubuntu packages are available in the official apt repositories:



On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.



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