Bug 2239858

Summary: Update OpenVPN to 2.6 in EPEL9
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Jonathan Wright <jonathan>
Component: openvpnAssignee: David Sommerseth <dazo>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel9CC: dazo, frank, huzaifas, klember, steve
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Description Jonathan Wright 2023-09-20 14:28:58 UTC 
Would you consider updating openvpn to 2.6 in EPEL9?  Per the changelog there do not appear to be any breaking changes and it would be a much better branch to be "stuck" on for the life of EL9 given the OpenSSL 3 and DCO support.

I'm happy to help maintain the EPEL side of things if help is needed.  FAS jonathanspw
Comment 1 David Sommerseth 2023-09-20 17:26:21 UTC 
Thank you for your interest.  Moving to OpenVPN 2.6 for EPEL-9 has been considered but decided not to go that path, simply because there are some chances some configurations may break.  I did such a move when going from 2.3 to 2.4 and got flogged for doing a major update for CentOS users.  There is always going to be enough users where 2.6 will break, like configurations using ciphers not supported in OpenSSL 3 and requires additional configuration.

To give users OpenVPN 2.6 I'm maintaining this Fedora Copr repo: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release-2.6/