[Openvpn-announce] OpenVPN 2.5-rc2 released

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From: Samuli Seppänen <samuli@openvpn.net>

Date: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 7:57 PM

OpenVPN 2.5 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)

    MSI installer (Windows)

    The MSI installer now bundles EasyRSA 3, a modern take on OpenVPN CA

      management