OpenVPN 2.5-rc2 released

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The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN
2.5-rc2. 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-beta/>

This release includes a number of fixes to OpenVPN, most of which affect
Windows only.

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

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=3D48978>
    User IRC channel: #openvpn at irc.freenode.net

Please report bugs and ask development questions here:

    Community bug tracker: <https://community.openvpn.net/>
    Developer mailing list: <http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3D4897=
8>
    Developer IRC channel: #openvpn-devel at irc.freenode.net (requires
Freenode registration)

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Samuli Sepp=E4nen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc

irc freenode net: mattock



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Gert Doering (1):
      Preparing release 2.5_rc2

Lev Stipakov (1):
      Alias ADAPTER_DOMAIN_SUFFIX to DOMAIN

Selva Nair (2):
      Set DNS Domain using iservice
      Improve documentation of --username-as-common-name

Simon Rozman via Openvpn-devel (4):
      netsh: Specify interfaces by index rather than name
      netsh: Clear existing IPv6 DNS servers before configuring new ones
      netsh: Delete WINS servers on TUN close
      openvpnmsica: Simplify find_adapters() to void return

Vladislav Grishenko (1):
      Fix update_time() and openvpn_gettimeofday() coexistence


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