The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN
2.5-beta1. Source code and Windows installers can be downloaded from

<https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/>

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

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos>

On RedHat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository:

<https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-beta>

This is a new major release with many new features:

    - Client-specific tls-crypt keys (--tls-crypt-v2)
    - Added support for using the ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher in the
OpenVPN data channel
    - Improved Data channel cipher negotiation
    - Removal of BF-CBC support in default configuration
    - Asynchronous (deferred) authentication support for auth-pam plugin
    - Deferred client-connect
    - Faster connection setup
    - Netlink support
    - Wintun support
    - IPv6-only operation
    - Improved Windows 10 detection
    - Linux VRF support
    - TLS 1.3 support
    - Support setting DHCP search domain
    - Handle setting of tun/tap interface MTU on Windows
    - HMAC based auth-token support
    - VLAN support
    - Support building of .msi installers for Windows
    - Allow unicode search string in --cryptoapicert option (Windows)
    - Support IPv4 configs with /31 netmasks now
    - New option --block-ipv6 to reject all IPv6 packets (ICMPv6)
    - IPv4-only VPN

More details on these new features as well as a list of deprecated
features and user-visible changes are available in Changes.rst:

<https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/release/2.5/Changes.rst>

For generic help use these support channels:

Official documentation:
<http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html>
Wiki: <https://community.openvpn.net>
Forums: <https://forums.openvpn.net>
User mailing list: <http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=48978>
User IRC channel: #openvpn at irc.freenode.net

Please report bugs and ask development questions here:

Bug tracker and wiki: <https://community.openvpn.net>
Developer mailing list: <http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=48978>
Developer IRC channel: #openvpn-devel at irc.freenode.net (requires
Freenode registration)


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