Hi,
Just wanting to raise awareness that the OpenVPN 2.5 Beta was released last week. I have prepared a Fedora Copr repository for those wanting to test this version.
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/dsommers/openvpn-beta/
OpenVPN 2.5 will drop EPEL-6 support; it goes EOL in November anyhow and will require a more recent OpenSSL library than 1.0.1e.
The final OpenVPN 2.5 release will hit Rawhide and will be part of the next Fedora release. I am pondering on adding an openvpn25 package for EPEL-7 and EPEL-8, as this release does have some nice security enhancements. I will not consider this for Fedora 31/32.
If you have a possibility to test OpenVPN 2.5, or if you want to review the spec file and packaging - we can ensure this will be a more painless upgrade than the 2.4 upgrade was. Packaging/.spec file issues can be taken here on this mailing list; otherwise OpenVPN 2.5 specific issues can be discussed on the OpenVPN developers mailing list [1] or the upstream Trac ticketing system [2].
[1] https://www.mail-archive.com/openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/ subscribe: https://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn/lists/openvpn-devel
[2] https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/newticket (Need a Trac account to file tickets)