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OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon

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Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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182 open issues indexed

tap0901 "error" when uninstalling Open

Installer Windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1108 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Do not include version # in windows software display name Open

Installer Windows

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 63/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1106 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 17, 2026
Spurious "CRL: cannot read CRL from file" on every CRL reload when the OpenSSL error queue is not empty Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1103 · Opened Sep 10, 2026
Send `RESTART,[P]:` instead of bare `RESTART` on server-initiated restart/exit Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1099 · Opened Aug 31, 2026
OpenVPN 2.7.6 compatibility regression with MikroTik RouterOS clients – HARD_RESET_CLIENT_V2 packet ID 1 rejected Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1097 · 12 comments · Opened Aug 21, 2026
documentation gap on client-kill command. Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1096 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
TCP short writes cause stream corruption Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1094 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
ovpn-dco 2.8.4: non-elevated OpenVPN GUI fails with CreateFile access denied (errno=5) on Windows 11 [Provided Workaround script] Open

DCO Windows

OpenVPN/openvpn#1092 · 29 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2026
macOS and UDP/IPv6 floating fails Open

enhancement macOS

OpenVPN/openvpn#1086 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 28, 2026
Is the mutual exclusion of dco and iproute2 still necessary? Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 70/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1085 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Route to VPN server is always bound to the first interface Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1081 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 22, 2026
duplicate-cn ineffective when combined with override-username in SSO/OAuth2 scenarios Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1078 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2026
OpenVPN 2.7 topology Subnet issuing an ERROR Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1077 · 13 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Feature Request: Multiple named `--ifconfig-pool` pools with dynamic group-based selection Open

duplicate feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1076 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2026
Route error with OpenVPN 2.7+ Stunnel Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1073 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 3, 2026
Document Real Address format change in management/status output (OpenVPN 2.7) Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1069 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2026
OpenVPN restarting after segfault error Open

DCO linux

OpenVPN/openvpn#1067 · 15 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jun 27, 2026
Linux DCO: pre-existing ovpn interface handling is broken Open

OpenVPN/openvpn#1064 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 23, 2026
warn on use of `dhcp-option` and `dns` on a server config Open

DNS enhancement

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1062 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
clean up GCs in use around options Open

enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1061 · Opened Jun 22, 2026
Failure to use correct IP address on reconnect to UDP P2P server (t_server 11t) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1058 · Opened Jun 19, 2026
Edgarruiz8585 Open vpn.api Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1057 · 1 comment · 3 reactions · Opened Jun 19, 2026
PKCS#11 hardware token unreachable when openvpn.exe runs as 'NT SERVICE\OpenVPNService' (2.7 automatic service / PLAP) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 43/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1056 · 7 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 17, 2026
Fix Race Condition / I/O Buffering in status_flush() causing truncated/zero-byte status file reads Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1054 · Opened Jun 14, 2026
Crash on resume from standby - memory reference cannot be read Open

bug Windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1053 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2026
Infinite sendto loop Open

moreinformationneeded

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1048 · 15 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2026
Stale NRPT Policy Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1047 · 10 comments · Opened Jun 5, 2026
FreeBSD & DCO: refuse to run with `user nobody` Open

DCO FreeBSD

OpenVPN/openvpn#1042 · 1 assignee · Opened May 23, 2026
dco-linux: iroutes disappear in case of quick client reconnect Open

bug DCO

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1040 · 2 comments · Opened May 21, 2026
Random segfaults on OpenWrt 25.12.5 Open

OpenVPN/openvpn#1039 · 15 comments · 2 assignees · Opened May 19, 2026
error when compiling ovpn-dkms under ubuntu 26.04 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1032 · 3 comments · Opened May 7, 2026
management.c: unable to handle PIN request during pkcs11-id-count interaction Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1031 · 1 comment · Opened May 3, 2026
pkcs11 certificate dialog does not show certs, however openvpn.exe ... does. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1030 · 18 comments · Opened May 2, 2026
Additional feature request for "push-update-broad" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1028 · Opened Apr 30, 2026
Bug Report: Recursive call of `man_process_command` via `virtual_output_callback_func` (Windows) Open

bug mgmt-if non-trivial change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1023 · 6 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2026
Verify error for SAN only TLS certificates Open

enhancement feature non-trivial change

OpenVPN/openvpn#1019 · 10 comments · 3 assignees · Opened Apr 21, 2026
OpenVPN 2.7.1: server log lines intermittently miss per-client prefix (<username>/udp4:IP:PORT) Open

bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1016 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2026
net_gateway works, but net_gateway_ipv6 is wrong Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1015 · Opened Apr 8, 2026
README not updated by Copyright-updating script Open

documentation enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#1012 · Opened Apr 1, 2026
Issue with Openvpn 2.7 not releasing IP's from adaptors Open

Windows

OpenVPN/openvpn#997 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 6, 2026
Replacing interface tap by feth couple of interfaces on macOS Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#991 · 3 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Management interface: epoll busy loop when remote client dies without closing connection Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#990 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 26, 2026
Please consider allowing server-ipv6 without adding implicit route Open

bug documentation enhancement

OpenVPN/openvpn#989 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Feb 25, 2026
Feature Request: Per‑CCD IP pools for clients in `topology subnet` (restoring documented group‑based firewall use‑case) Open

enhancement feature

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#987 · 25 comments · Opened Feb 21, 2026
OpenVPN disconnect removes active route to server IP, despite existing persistent route (On Windows) Open

bug Windows

OpenVPN/openvpn#970 · 9 comments · 2 assignees · Opened Jan 29, 2026
Route to VPN server is bound to wrong interface Open

invalid moreinformationneeded

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#969 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 29, 2026
add instrumentation around close() calls Open

enhancement feature

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#967 · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Using local cert file with PKCS#11 HSM private key Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#958 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 15, 2026
Internal routing precedence of broad iroute overshadowing a server’s own local subnet within OpenVPN’s internal routing algorithm Open

enhancement non-trivial change

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

OpenVPN/openvpn#956 · 9 comments · Opened Jan 13, 2026
On macOS, Tap interface must be activated manually Open

macOS moreinformationneeded

OpenVPN/openvpn#951 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 5, 2026

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