The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.5.1. It includes several bug fixes and improvements as well as updated OpenSSL and OpenVPN GUI for Windows.
Source code and Windows installers can be downloaded from our download page: <https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/> Debian and Ubuntu packages are available in the official apt repositories: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos> On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository. <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/> --- Overview of changes since OpenVPN 2.4 Faster connections Connections setup is now much faster Crypto specific changes ChaCha20-Poly1305 cipher in the OpenVPN data channel Requires OpenSSL 1.1.0 or newer) Improved TLS 1.3 support when using OpenSSL 1.1.1 or newer Client-specific tls-crypt keys (--tls-crypt-v2) Improved Data channel cipher negotiation Removal of BF-CBC support in default configuration (see below for possible incompatibilities) Server-side improvements HMAC based auth-token support for seamless reconnects to standalone servers or a group of servers. Asynchronous (deferred) authentication support for auth-pam plugin Asynchronous (deferred) support for client-connect scripts and plugins Network-related changes Support IPv4 configs with /31 netmasks now 802.1q VLAN support on TAP servers IPv6-only tunnels New option --block-ipv6 to reject all IPv6 packets (ICMPv6) Linux-specific features VRF support Netlink integration (OpenVPN no longer needs to execute ifconfig/route or ip commands) Windows-specific features Wintun driver support, a faster alternative to tap-windows6 Setting tun/tap interface MTU Setting DHCP search domain Allow unicode search string in --cryptoapicert option EasyRSA3, a modern take on OpenVPN CA management MSI installer --- Important notices BF-CBC cipher is no longer the default Cipher handling for the data channel cipher has been significantly changed between OpenVPN 2.3/2.4 and v2.5, most notably there are no "default cipher BF-CBC" anymore because it is no longer considered a reasonable default. BF-CBC is still available, but it needs to be explicitly configured now. For connections between OpenVPN 2.4 and v2.5 clients and servers, both ends will be able to negotiate a better cipher than BF-CBC. By default they will select one of the AES-GCM ciphers, but this can be influenced using the --data-ciphers setting. Connections between OpenVPN 2.3 and v2.5 that have no --cipher setting in the config (= defaulting to BF-CBC and not being negotiation-capable) must be updated. Unless BF-CBC is included in --data-ciphers or there is a "--cipher BF-CBC" in the OpenVPN 2.5 config, a v2.5 client or server will refuse to talk to a v2.3 server or client, because it has no common data channel cipher and negotiating a cipher is not possible. Generally, we recommend upgrading such setups to OpenVPN 2.4 or v2.5. If upgrading is not possible we recommend adding data-ciphers AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:AES-128-CBC (for v2.5+) or cipher AES-128-CBC (v2.4.x and older) to the configuration of all clients and servers. If you really need to use an unsupported OpenVPN 2.3 (or even older) release and need to stay on BF-CBC (not recommended), the OpenVPN 2.5 based client will need a config file change to re-enable BF-CBC. But be warned that BF-CBC and other related weak ciphers will be removed in coming OpenVPN major releases. For full details see the Data channel cipher negotiation section on the man page. Connectivity to some VPN service provider may break Connecting with an OpenVPN 2.5 client to at least one commercial VPN service that implemented their own cipher negotiation method that always reports back that it is using BF-CBC to the client is broken in v2.5. This has always caused warning about mismatch ciphers. We have been in contact with some service providers and they are looking into it. This is not something the OpenVPN community can fix. If your commercial VPN does not work with a v2.5 client, complain to the VPN service provider. 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> --- Linux packages are available from <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos> <https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/> Useful resources Official documentation: <http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html> Wiki: <https://community.openvpn.net/> Easy RSA 3 HOWTO: <https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/EasyRSA3-OpenVPN-Howto> Forums: <https://forums.openvpn.net/> User mailing list: <http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=48978> User IRC channel: #openvpn at irc.freenode.net -- Samuli Seppänen Community Manager OpenVPN Technologies, Inc irc freenode net: mattock _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users