Hi, The OpenVPN 3 Linux v5 beta release has just been made available. This is available in our git repositories [0] and URLs for source tarballs are listed later in this e-mail. RPM binaries for Fedora and RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux [1] completed the build process quite recently too. Debian and Ubuntu packages will come in releases just need a few rounds of internal testing and we will hopefully be able to release them soon too.
The highlights of this release includes: # Built against OpenSSL by default The previous release allowed to build against OpenSSL 1.0 by switching to this explicitly at compile time, keeping mbed TLS as the default. We have now flipped this around, so OpenSSL is the new default and mbed TLS is the alternative. # Improved configurations without client certificate Previous releases required a configuration override to be set to allow configuration profiles not containing any client certificates. The configuration processing will now automatically detect this scenario and ensure the configuration is processed accordingly when starting the VPN session. This change also removes the override feature. # Network Configuration service could complain about a missing backup file When the Network Configuration service did *not* modify the DNS resolver settings on the system, it would often complain about missing backup file when disconnecting. This is something it should not complain about, as there is no backup to restore as nothing did change in this case. This has been corrected. # Network Configuration service could restore the DNS settings too early If running multiple VPN sessions where one or more sessions would modify the DNS resolver settings, it could occasionally restore the settings back to the state before the first VPN session had started when disconnecting one of more running VPN sessions. This was due to a reference counter not being initialized correctly. This has been fixed and the DNS resolver settings are now restored correctly. # openvpn2 command line interface improvements The openvpn2 command line program is an OpenVPN 2.x "look-alike" interface for openvpn3-linux. This has been extended to work better with a few more VPN configuration profiles which where reported as dysfunctional. # The openvpn3 Python module gained support for LookupConfigName() Both the Configuration Manager and the Session Manager supports a D-Bus method for looking up configuration or session objects based on a configuration profile name. The support for these methods was missing in the openvpn3 Python module, but is now implemented. # Improve OpenVPN 3 Core Library version reporting The openvpn3-linux client will normally attempt to report back the version of the Core Library it is built against. This did however not work properly when building out of the tar.xz tarballs. This has been fixed and the Core Library will now always report an accurate version reference. # autoconf portability warnings fixed When building from the git tree, autoreconf would complain about portability issues related to the openvpn3-linux using a few GNU extensions. This is not something we currently have a big concern about, so these warnings have been muted. In addition there are several minor improvements and bug fixes. OpenVPN 3 Linux is with this release beginning to be ready for prime-time production. We will have a few more beta releases, extending the command line interfaces with a few more administration features and similar. Once we feel the client is feature complete in this round, we will move over to "release candidate" releases. If you are using openvpn3-linux, please report back if there are issues you have or improvements you feel is important for the stable release. We do know there are several users deploying openvpn3-linux already, and some have provided valuable feedback which has been * Quick-start with OpenVPN 3 Linux once it has been installed $ openvpn2 --config my-vpn-config.conf --verb 6 This will start a VPN configuration profile with the most verbose logging. If the configuration does not contain --daemon, all logging will also be present in the console and the tunnel will be torn down with a simple CTRL-C. Otherwise the VPN session will be running in the background and you get your command prompt back again, and you need to manage this session using `openvpn3 session-manage --config my-vpn-config.conf` For more information see the various man-pages available [2]. * Install Fedora Copr packages for Fedora, RHEL, CentOS and Scientific Linux Ensure you have the yum-plugin-copr or dnf copr plugin installed. For RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux you will also need to have the Fedora EPEL repository enabled [3]. Then run the following commands: For yum users: $ yum copr enable dsommers/openvpn3 $ yum install openvpn3-client or for dnf users: $ dnf copr enable dsommers/openvpn3 $ dnf install openvpn3-client [0] <https://gitlab.com/openvpn/openvpn3-linux> <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux> [1] <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn3/> [2] <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/tree/master/docs/man/> [3] <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL> ---- Source tarballs ---------------------------------------------------- * OpenVPN 3 Linux v5 beta <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-linux-5_beta.tar.xz> <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-linux-5_beta.tar.xz.asc> ---- SHA 256 Checksums -------------------------------------------------- 8e7fae354f127b007ee2a7ddddb4c08aa9db5b2be34bc3dec514d63b4f60c866 openvpn3-linux-5_beta.tar.xz d054401d90131eab662be0c62358860e94a6a0c7da0222b37aedab7e894365df openvpn3-linux-5_beta.tar.xz.asc ---- git references ----------------------------------------------------- git tag: v5_beta git commit: 16dd2acdf3343e6180e005a229dbd4bd40c9f644 ---- Changes from v4 to v5 ---------------------------------------------- Arne Schwabe (2): Rename bash completion script build: Allow configure.ac also to work with submodules and out of dir git repos David Sommerseth (23): build: Provide an accurate OpenVPN 3 Core Library version build: Fix make VPATH builds build: Clean up autoconf warnings docs: Update openvpn3-config-import man page docs: Fix incorrect indenting on command lines docs: Add man page and D-Bus API references to README.md docs: Rearranged README.md, moving front-ends higher up docs: Add missing single-quotes on some binaries build: Switch to build with OpenSSL by default dbus/proxy: Treat internal ACL denials similar to D-Bus denials python: Add LookupConfigName method to SessionManager python: Extended ConfigurationManager with LookupConfigName method python: Added simple unit test for watching StatusChange signals python: Add more OpenVPN 2 options to the ignore list client: Auto-detect if client certificate is present netcfg: Fix unexpected DNS resolver setup restore netcfg: Don't try to restore DNS without active backup vendor: Update ASIO to 1.13.0 Update OpenVPN 3 Core Library client: Remove unused private variable client: Fix missing override tags to some Log methods tests: Fix incorrecty variable type in syslog-facility-mapping test docs: Update README.md with proper Deb/Ubu OpenSSL packages ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Inc
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