OpenVPN 2.6_beta1 released

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6_beta1.
This is the first Beta release for the feature release 2.6.0.

Some highlights of this release are:

* Data Channel Offload (DCO) kernel acceleration support for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD.
* OpenSSL 3 support.
* Improved handling of tunnel MTU, including support for pushable MTU.
* Reworked TLS handshake, making OpenVPN immune to replay-packet state exhaustion attacks.
* Added --peer-fingerprint mode for a more simplistic certificate setup and verification.
* Improved protocol negotiation, leading to faster connection setup.

More details can be found in the Changes document:

<https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/release/2.6/Changes.rst>

(The Changes document also contains a section with work-arounds for
common problems encountered when using OpenVPN with OpenSSL 3)

Source code and Windows installers can be downloaded from our download page:

<https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/>

(The Windows installers use OpenSSL 3 now)

Debian and Ubuntu packages are available in the official apt repositories:

<https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos>

(Note that as a Beta release, packages are only available in testing
and release/2.6 repositories, not in stable)

On Red Hat derivatives we recommend using the Fedora Copr repository.

<https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-release/>