For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements.
OpenVPN 2.7 introduces multi-socket support for servers to be able to handle multiple addresses / ports / protocols within one server. OpenVPN 2.7 also improved client support for different DNS options, made several Windows-specific enhancements, and also improved its data channel flow. There is also TLS 1.3 support with the latest mbedTLS code.
The OpenVPN 2.7 user-space can also work with the OpenVPN DCO kernel module for data channel offload that was upstreamed into the Linux 6.16 kernel in enhancing the OpenVPN performance. The OpenVPN DCO kernel driver performance yields some nice gains as the project recently showcased:
OpenVPN 2.7 downloads and more details on this free software VPN solution via GitHub.
