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Todo #16542

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Update OpenVPN Windows Installer to 2.6.17

Added by Silmor Senedlen about 1 month ago. Updated 23 days ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jim Pingle
Category:
OpenVPN Client Export
Target version:
-
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% Done:

100%

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Description

Good day
Current package contains Windows Installer version 2.6.7 from 2023.11.09.
Actual Windows version now is 2.6.15 from 2025.09.24 and contains many bugfixes, improvements and bunch of vulnerabilities (mostly related to Windows interactive service):

https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/release/2.6/Changes.rst#overview-of-changes-in-2615

Other notable changes for Windows:
- do not use "wmic.exe" any longer to set DNS search domain (discontinued by Microsoft), use powershell
- protect cached username, password and token in client memory (using the CryptProtectMemory windows API)
- contains actual version of win-dco driver:
https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-dco-win/releases/tag/1.3.3

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