Release: OpenVPN version 2.6.12

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The OpenVPN community project team is proud to release OpenVPN 2.6.12. This is a bugfix release.

• For details see Changes.rst

Bug fixes:

• the fix for CVE-2024-5594 (refuse control channel messages with nonprintable characters) was too strict, breaking user configurations with AUTH_FAIL messages having trailing CR/NL characters. This often happens if the AUTH_FAIL reason is set by a script. Strip those before testing the command buffer (github #568). Also, add unit test.
• Http-proxy: fix bug preventing proxy credentials caching (trac #1187)

Windows MSI changes since 2.6.11:

• Built against OpenSSL 3.3.1
• Included openvpn-gui updated to 11.50.0.0
  • Update Italian language (github #696)

Downloads

• Windows installers
• Official OpenVPN Linux package repositories
• Source archive file

Useful resources

• Documentation
• Community wiki
• Report issues
• User mailing list
• Easy RSA 3 HOWTO
• User IRC channel: openvpn at irc.libera.chat