Changes.rst has not received an "2.7_rc3" section - it has the
"highlevel" overview of what is new in 2.7, but for alpha/beta/rc*
releases it's better to look at git log to see what has been added/fixed.
Notable changes rc2 -> rc3 are:
- Windows/Interactive Service bugfixes
many small bugfixes to registry-related DNS domain handling
- Windows/Interactive Service: harden service pipe handling
close a small race condition, and add restrictive ACLs
- Windows/Interactive Service: CVE-2025-13751
fix bug where the interactive service would error-exit in
certain error conditions instead of just logging the fact and
continuing. After the error-exit, OpenVPN connections will no
longer work until the service is restarted (or the system rebooted).
This can be triggered by any authenticated local user, and has
thus been classified as a "local denial of service" attack.
- more type conversion related warnings have been fixed
- --multihome behaviour regarding egress interface selection has been
changed. See Changes.rst and manpage for details.
- cleanup dead code in event handling code (leftover of the multisocket
patch set)
- add new feature, --tls-crypt-v2-max-age n. See Changes.rst and
manpage for details.
- improve documentation to point out the pitfalls of case-insensitive
filesystems and --client-config-dir
- split default gateway query logic in two:
- for --redirect-gateway functionality, query for the gateway towards
the actual IP address of the VPN server connecting to
- for the "net_gateway" special destination for --route, and the
corresponding environment variable, always query for 0.0.0.0 / ::
(this will only make a difference in certain scenarios using a local
proxy, or on a system with multiple interfaces, not using the "default
route" for the VPN connection - see github#890)
- upgrade embedded pkcs11-helper vcpkg + pkcs11-uri patch to 1.31
- CMake / autoconf cleanup wrt unused checks, outdated old-Linux checks,
Windows oddities
- DCO (primarily Linux): improve handling of bulk notifications from
kernel (do not lose notifications, do not crash) (github#900)