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List:       openvpn-devel
Subject:    [Openvpn-devel] OpenVPN 3 Linux client - v19 beta released
From:       David Sommerseth <openvpn () sf ! lists ! topphemmelig ! net>
Date:       2022-10-31 13:46:32
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Hi,

The OpenVPN 3 Linux v19 (beta) release is now available.

First, thank you to all who have reported issues and as well those
who also contributed with changes.  Your efforts and interest in this
project is highly appreciated.  Please reach out if you have any
questions or wonder about how OpenVPN 3 Linux works or issues related
to using it.

If you have ideas how to make common operations easier with your daily
usage, please get in touch so we can explore those ideas further!

So to the v19 (beta) changes:

This release does another round of improving the logging system,
in addition to bug fixes and other improvements.

* Log system changes

   The net.openvpn.v3.log service has been extended to support logging
   directly to systemd-journald as an alternative to syslog.  The
   default log destination has been changed from syslog to journald.

   Using the systemd-journald as the log destination allows attaching
   more meta data variables to the log events, which can be used when
   querying the journal using journalctl.  These additional meta data
   variables can be observed when using the 'verbose', 'json',
   'json-pretty' or 'export' output modes (journalctl --output)

   The OpenVPN 3 Linux specific meta data variables are prefixed with
   "O3_".  The meta variables OpenVPN 3 Linux may make use of are:

   - O3_LOG_GROUP / O3_LOG_CATEGORY
     These are direct mapped to the logging classification described
     here: <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/blob/master/docs/dbus/dbus-logging.md>


   - O3_LOGTAG
     This tag is unique per openvpn3-service-* process and will be
     changed if the process restarts.  This information has so far
     been added to the beginning of the log lines, as the '{tag:....}'
     prefix.  This prefixing to the log lines can now be removed by
     running:

         # openvpn3-admin log-service --enable-log-prefix false

     The O3_LOGTAG will have the same content as the prefix, without
     the '{tag:...}' encapsulation; O3_LOGTAG contains only the plain
     identifier.  The log tags currently active can be listed by
     running:

         # openvpn3-admin log-service --list-subscriptions

   - O3_SENDER, O3_INTERFACE, O3_OBJECT_PATH
     These are added if the D-Bus log details are enabled by running:

         # openvpn3-admin log-service --dbus-details true

   - O3_SESSION_TOKEN
     This is used by the openvpn3-service-client process, where the
     session token has the same value as the argument the process
     is started with

   To list only these OpenVPN 3 Linux meta variables, run this
   command:

      # journalctl -o verbose --since today \
           --output-fields=O3_SENDER,O3_INTERFACE,O3_METHOD,O3_OBJECT_PATH,O3_LOGTAG,O3_SESSION_TOKEN,O3_LOG_GROUP,O3_LOG_CATEGORY,MESSAGE \
\  _PID=$(pidof openvpn3-service-logger)
                  
   This query can be extended further to narrow down the log scope.
   To only list client process log events, add this to the line
   above:  O3_LOG_GROUP=Client

* Enhancement: IV_PLAT_VER sent to server
   This field provides OS details of the platform the OpenVPN 3 client
   is running on.  This will contain an arbitrary string provided by
   either the systemd-hostnamed service, or if that is unavailable it
   will extract some more generic information using the uname()
   system function.

   The IV_GUI_VER string has also been slimmed down a bit to only
   provide information about the OpenVPN 3 Linux client alone.  The
   IV_VER will contain information about the OpenVPN 3 Core library
   version which OpenVPN 3 Linux is compiled against.

* Update to OpenVPN 3 Core Library v3.7.1
   This update of the OpenVPN 3 Core library is a maintenance release.
   The changes which touches OpenVPN 3 Linux is related to the ovpn-dco
   kernel module support.  On systems running more VPN sessions in
   parallel with DCO (Data Channel Offload) enabled, the Core library
   could in some situations perform operations on the wrong DCO
   interface.

* Bugfix: Web based authentication with OpenVPN Access Server fix
   When connecting to OpenVPN Access Server configured with web based
   authentication (i.e. SAML), the authentication could fail on
   renegotiations.  The fix currently applied will require to import
   the Access Server profile once again.  This will be improved
   further in the next release.

   <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux/issues/154>

* Bugfix: Python warning with openvpn3-as on Ubuntu 22.04
   When running the openvpn3-as utility on Ubuntu 22.04 it would complain
   about using a deprecated ssl.SSLContext() mode.  This has
   been updated to use the preferred mode.

* Bugfix: openvpn3 command line bash-completion
   The bash-completion support has been changed to avoid adding an
   additional space after file and directory names.


The OpenVPN 3 Linux project is now fully focusing on stabilising the
code for the first stable release.  If the next release will be one
of the last beta releases or a stable release depends on what bugs
and issues are discovered in this release and what kind of code
changes are needed to complete the outstanding issues we want
resolved for the stable release.


Supported Linux distributions
-----------------------------

   - Debian 10 (amd64, arm64)
   - Debian 11 (amd64, arm64)
   - Fedora 35 and 36 (x86_64, aarch64, s390x)
   - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (x86_64)
   - Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and 9 (x86_64, aarch64)
   - Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 21.10 and 22.04 (amd64, arm64)

Both Fedora 37 and Ubuntu 22.10 will come in the near future as well,
they are currently not made available yet.

The arm64 support on selected Debian and Ubuntu releases are
currently considered a tech-preview.  We would like to get
feedback from arm64 users how OpenVPN 3 Linux works here, then
we can remove the tech-preview label for arm64.


--
kind regards,

David Sommerseth
OpenVPN Inc


---- Source tarballs ---------------------------------------------------
* OpenVPN 3 Linux v18 beta

   <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-linux-19_beta.tar.xz>
   <https://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/openvpn3-linux-19_beta.tar.xz.asc>


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---- git references ----------------------------------------------------

git repositories:
     <https://gitlab.com/openvpn/openvpn3-linux>
     <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux>
     <https://codeberg.org/OpenVPN/openvpn3-linux>
     
git tag: v19_beta
git commit: 33da965fa4151a05f95f385f00f338fa028471a2

---- Changes from v18_beta to v19_beta ----------------------------------

David Sommerseth (74):
       tests: Improve MachineIDTest::get_systemd_api test
       build: Split up proxy-netcfg into a manager and device compilation unit
       core: Update to latest OpenVPN 3 Core Library 3.7 development
       shell: Fix proposing more options to --config shell completion
       shell: Fix trailing spaces in bash-completion
       build: Generate C compatible header file
       dbus: Add missing #include in glibutils.hpp
       log: Move LogTag into its own compilation unit
       log: Extend LogTag to enable/disable the tag mark encapsulation
       log: Extend LogTag with copy constructor
       log: Add new helper classes for log meta data
       log: Implement the new meta data log handling
       log: Extend LogMetaDataValue to process LogTag objects
       log: Extend LogMetaData with GetMetaDataRecords() method
       log: Use LogTag in Logger class instead of std::string
       common: Allow setting default filename in Configuration::File ctor
       common: Extend Configuration::File with Get/Set for more data types
       log: Re-implement configuration state saving
       log: Switch to GLibUtils::ExtractValue in LogEvent
       log: Implement LogTag prefix configuration setting
       log: Extend LogEvent with LogGroup/Category string extraction
       log: Add support for native systemd-journald logging
       log: Implement systemd-journald support in openvpn3-service-logger
       log: Split logwritter.hpp into its own compilation unit
       log: Split out StreamLogWriter and ColourStreamWriter
       log: Split out SyslogWriter to its own compilation unit
       log: Split out JournaldWriter to its own compilation unit
       log: Final change of the logwriter.hpp split-up refactoring
       log: Extend LogWriter API to provide backend info
       log: Extend net.openvpn.v3.log interface with log_method property
       cli/log: Provide information about logging method in use
       cli/log: Add admin --enable-log-prefix config setting
       log: Fix memory corruption with syslog/openlog()
       log: Rework initial opening information in logger service
       common: Extend Configuration::File with GetFilename()
       log: Extend state/config file option coverage
       log/logger: Simplify exclusive option check
       log/logger: Rework configuration/state loading
       log/logger: Extend with D-Bus property for config_file
       common: Add missing include files in cmdparser-exceptions.hpp
       cli/log: Add new options for logger config file management
       logger: Enable --journald as default log method
       build: Don't use space in PACKAGE_NAME
       docs/man: Add missing --auth-req option in openvpn3 session-auth
       docs: Added GitHub pull-request template
       log: Avoid halting logger startup on missing log-service.json
       dbus: Make bus_name and interface protected members in DBusProxy
       dbus/proxy: Check if property proxy is configured
       dbus/connection: Add extra connection tests in DBus constructors
       common: Add PlatformInfo API
       client: Send platform OS/distro peer information to server
       client: Simplify IV_GUI_VER string
       utils: Fix incorrect string concat in get_guiversion()
       tests/unit: Handle PlatformInfo::DBus error gracefully
       python: Use ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS_CLIENT in openvpn3-as
       configmgr: Initialise all members of ConfigurationObject class
       common: inline optparser_mkline function in core-extensions
       build: Fix clang++ warnings related to __LINE__ usage
       sessionmgr: Remove not needed namespace reference
       build: Fix missing override issues in logging and netcfg-signals.hpp
       log: Remove not used class variable in LoggerProxy
       log: Add virtual destructor in LogTag
       log: Pass the LogTag objects as smart pointers
       tests: Extend LogMetaData unit tests (LogMetaData, LogMetaDataValue)
       client: Add workaround for OpenVPN Access Server web authentication
       tests/core: Extend profilemerge-optionlist with dump functionality
       ovpn-dco: Update to latest headers
       docs: Add details about nscd and sssd
       log: Fix lacking LogWriter::AddMeta() doxy doc
       log: Fix missing O3_LOGTAG meta data variable
       cli/log-service: Fix incorrect change detection for log prefixing
       cli/log-service: Correct the behaviour with journald and D-Bus details
       distro: Improve openvpn3-session@.service unit
       core: Update to OpenVPN 3 Core Library v3.7.1

Jagadeesh Kotra (1):
       docs/client: fix typo in net.openvpn.v3.client docs

Raphael Mader (1):
       log: Fix non-systemd build

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