The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.1.

Update included openvpn-gui to 11.39.0.0.

Attempting to use the old ovpn-dco with 2.6.2+ will lead to disabling DCO at runtime. The kernel module was renamed to 'ovpn-dco-v2.ko' in order to highlight this change and ensure that users and userspace software could easily understand which version is loaded. This is an INCOMPATIBLE change and therefore an ovpn-dco kernel module older than v0323 (commit ID 726fdfe0fa21) will not work anymore and must be upgraded.

New control packets flow for data channel offloading on Linux: 2.6.2+ changes the way OpenVPN control packets are handled on Linux when DCO is active, fixing the lockups observed with 2.6.0/2.6.1 under high client connect/disconnect activity.

implement byte counter statistics for DCO Windows (client only).

implement byte counter statistics for DCO Linux (p2mp server and client).

This is mostly a bugfix release with some improvements.

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.2.

Adds 'Password Reveal' feature which allows you to see passwords while entering them.

Fixes a problem with passphrase prompt was sometimes not displayed.

Update included openvpn-gui to 11.42.0.0.

We include the previous driver version to still allow installation on Windows 7/8. We can't rebuild drivers for Windows 7/8 since Microsoft doesn't support the signing mechanism anymore.

Note: The new driver is only used on Windows 10 and newer.

Fixes a problem with sending small non-IP packets (e.g.

Update include tap-windows6 driver to 9.25.0.

Fix the encoding of some documentation/sample files included in the installer.

You might need to re-download or update the GPG key if verifying the signatures. asc files for the downloads has been updated. Note: Windows MSI was updated to I003 on April 26th. Use openssl.exe directly if you need to edit a private key. This was a niche feature which caused a direct dependency of GUI on OpenSSL.

This update removes the ability to change the password of a private key from the GUI.

Update included openvpn-gui to 11.41.0.0.

MSIs are now built against OpenSSL 3.1.0.

repair querying install path info for easyrsa-start.bat on some Windows language versions, see GH openvpn-build#352.

ensure interactive service stays enabled after silent reinstall, see GH openvpn-build#348, openvpn-build#349 and openvpn-build#351.

Windows: support setting DNS domain in configurations without GUI and DHCP (typically wintun or windco drivers), see GH openvpn#306.

The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.3.

Windows 10 software