Ubuntu 20.04

full772

Hi All,

We have a large investment in OpenVPN community edition. I'm noticing that there's limited packages for Ubuntu 20.04.

The official Ubuntu package is 2.4.7 rather than 2.4.9 and the official community package from OpenVPN is just a 2.5 beta release rather than the 2.4.9 stable release. There doesn't seem to be a stable branch for Ubuntu 20.04.

I wonder if anyone can provide any insights. I'd like to see a 20.04 stable branch. Do I have to wait until 2.5 is out of beta?

TinCanTech

You get what you pay for .. right now things are dicey ..

full772

What do you mean by "dicey"?

TinCanTech

full772 wrote The official Ubuntu package is 2.4.7 rather than 2.4.9

Ubuntu rarely, if ever, ships an up to date OpenVPN.

full772 wrote the official community package from OpenVPN is just a 2.5 beta release

No, that is a beta release for testing.

full772 wrote I wonder if anyone can provide any insights

Try this:
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos

full772 wrote What do you mean by "dicey"?

Unpredictable.

full772

I'm quite familiar with https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos The only official repository for Ubuntu Focal is 2.5beta

Most of our fleet is Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04. With 20.04.1 released and hopefully the LTS upgrade from 18 to 20 coming "real soon now". We're planning to upgrade the entire fleet to 20.04.

I'm trying to decide if we should use the official Ubuntu package or the OpenVPN Stable package. I can always use the Debian 10 Repository which seems to work well.

I was really just wondering if the OpenVPN community had anything insightful to share.

TinCanTech

full772 wrote The only official repository for Ubuntu Focal is 2.5beta

This is no doubt an over-sight .. I have passed this information on to the repo maintainer.