OpenVPN 2.7.1 Released with New Features, Improvements, and Bug Fixes

Posted by hanuca on Mar 31, 2026 8:33 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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OpenVPN 2.7.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest OpenVPN 2.7 series of this open-source software for connecting to virtual private networks (VPN).

OpenVPN 2.7.1 adds a new username-only flag argument to the --auth-user-pass parameter to make OpenVPN only query for the username and send a dummy password to the server. According to the devs, this is only useful if authentication schemes are used on the server side and make some sort of external challenge based on usernames, and not password authentication.

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