[Buildroot] Migration to OpenSSL 1.1.1?
Peter Korsgaard
peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Jan 15 13:22:40 UTC 2019
>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com> writes:
Hi,
>> There are some efforts starting to bump to the latest stable 1.1.1.
>> We're hoping we can get things bumped before things freeze for the
>> next release.
> The freeze for 2019.02 is going to happen at the end of January, I am
> not sure this leaves us enough time to fix all the consequences of a
> bump to OpenSSL 1.1.1.
> However, since 2019.02 is going to be a LTS maintained for one year,
> perhaps we want to have OpenSSL 1.1.1 in that LTS, knowing that it will
> be maintained, while older OpenSSL versions might not. Is there any
> information available on whether OpenSSL still maintains 1.0.x ? Peter,
> what do you think ?
The official policy is listed here:
https://www.openssl.org/policies/releasestrat.html
So it will be supported almost (but not completely) until the end of the
2019.02 maintenance cycle.
Given how close we are to RC1, I would suggest we stick to 1.0.2 for
2019.02.
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Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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