Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] test latest binary on vista

[Selva Nair]

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 8:32 PM, David Sommerseth
 wrote:
> On 30/01/18 10:33, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
>>> (Cross posting to users and devel)
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> 2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?
>>
>> Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
>> longer supported by Microsoft:
>>
>> 
>>
>> But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
>> is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time being.
> 
>
> Vista is currently in full support for 2.4.4.  WinXP is being phased out when
> 2.3 hits "Old stable support".  But we can certainly discuss the value of
> supporting Vista when Microsoft does not officially support it.  I'd be in
> favour of supporting only Win7 and newer.
>

+1 for dropping Vista support. Unlike XP, the releases will continue
to work on Vista until we start using some exclusively Win7+ API, but
we just stop
guaranteeing Vista compatibility beyond, say, 2.4.6.

It seems no one here has access to Vista and we'll soon start shipping
binaries untested on Vista.

Selva

--
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
___
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] test latest binary on vista

[David Sommerseth]

On 30/01/18 10:33, Samuli Seppänen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
>> (Cross posting to users and devel)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?
> 
> Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
> longer supported by Microsoft:
> 
> 
> 
> But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
> is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time being.


Vista is currently in full support for 2.4.4.  WinXP is being phased out when
2.3 hits "Old stable support".  But we can certainly discuss the value of
supporting Vista when Microsoft does not officially support it.  I'd be in
favour of supporting only Win7 and newer.

Also compare this to our Linux support strategies.  We dropped RHEL5 support
once Red Hat dropped the support officially too.


-- 
kind regards,

David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Inc




signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
--
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] test latest binary on vista

[Selva Nair]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Samuli Seppänen  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
>> (Cross posting to users and devel)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?
>
> Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
> longer supported by Microsoft:
>
> 
>
> But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
> is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time being.
>
>>
>> Can anyone please latest 2.4 release branch on Windows Vista using an
>> RSA certificate in Windows cert store (using --cryptoapicert option) ?
>>
>> Need to be built with openssl 1.1. Not sure the snapshots are built that 
>> way..
>> https://build.openvpn.net/downloads/snapshots/
>
> Not yet. I will switch snapshot builds to OpenSSL 1.1 once
> openvpn-build's openvpn.nsi stops failing on OpenSSL 1.1 libraries
> (names have changed). A PR is pending but it still needs one minor fix.
>
>> The recent changes to cryptoapi uses CNG api which is supposedly
>> supported on Vista but some testing would be useful. I no longer have
>> access to a Vista machine.

FWIW, I did quick test of master (with openssl 1.1) on Windows server
2008 (API version same as vista?). Using cryptoapicert with an EC cert
worked, so hopefully its all good.

By the way, 2.4 with openssl 1.0 and 1.1 should have the same
functionality. Thus testing the current snapshot build (openssl 1.0)
is useful too..

Selva

--
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
___
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] test latest binary on vista

[Илья Шипицин]

2018-01-30 14:33 GMT+05:00 Samuli Seppänen :

> Hi,
>
> Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
> > (Cross posting to users and devel)
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > 2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?
>
> Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
> longer supported by Microsoft:
>
>  lifecycle-fact-sheet>
>
> But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
> is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time
> being.
>
> >
> > Can anyone please latest 2.4 release branch on Windows Vista using an
> > RSA certificate in Windows cert store (using --cryptoapicert option) ?
> >
> > Need to be built with openssl 1.1. Not sure the snapshots are built that
> way..
> > https://build.openvpn.net/downloads/snapshots/
>
> Not yet. I will switch snapshot builds to OpenSSL 1.1 once
> openvpn-build's openvpn.nsi stops failing on OpenSSL 1.1 libraries
> (names have changed). A PR is pending but it still needs one minor fix.
>


snapshot builds are different from release builds (they do not support lzo,
for example)
I was going to unify snapshot/release builds. Hope to do that soon

but UI is the same :)


>
> > The recent changes to cryptoapi uses CNG api which is supposedly
> > supported on Vista but some testing would be useful. I no longer have
> > access to a Vista machine.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Selva
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Samuli Seppänen
> Community Manager
> OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
>
> irc freenode net: mattock
>
> 
> --
> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
> ___
> Openvpn-devel mailing list
> Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
>
--
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel

Re: [Openvpn-devel] [Openvpn-users] test latest binary on vista

[Samuli Seppänen]

Hi,

Il 29/01/2018 20:09, Selva Nair ha scritto:
> (Cross posting to users and devel)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2.4.x needs to support, Vista, isn't it?

Good question and we have discussed in the past. Windows Vista is no
longer supported by Microsoft:



But then again, we do provide installers which work on Windows XP, which
is similarly EOL. So I guess we do support Windows Vista for the time being.

> 
> Can anyone please latest 2.4 release branch on Windows Vista using an
> RSA certificate in Windows cert store (using --cryptoapicert option) ?
> 
> Need to be built with openssl 1.1. Not sure the snapshots are built that way..
> https://build.openvpn.net/downloads/snapshots/

Not yet. I will switch snapshot builds to OpenSSL 1.1 once
openvpn-build's openvpn.nsi stops failing on OpenSSL 1.1 libraries
(names have changed). A PR is pending but it still needs one minor fix.

> The recent changes to cryptoapi uses CNG api which is supposedly
> supported on Vista but some testing would be useful. I no longer have
> access to a Vista machine.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Selva
> 



-- 
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock

--
Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most
engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
___
Openvpn-devel mailing list
Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel