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#3481 Change: OpenSSL40
Closed: Accepted by humaton. Opened by alking.

Closed: Accepted
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OpenSSL 4.0 is going to land in April 2026. It is a major release with many significant changes, and we should start preparing for it.

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I appreciate this being filed so far in advance.

I'm +1 to the change, but I am pretty sure we are going to need a openssl3 compat package(s) for a while.

Yeah, this is fine, but this is not a self-contained change. We will almost certainly require an openssl3 compat package to execute on, too.

+1

+1, but System-Wide.

An SONAME change is planned, and a compat package will remain available. This sounds like a reasonable transition.

The proposal doesn't say this explicitly, but the compat package must include the devel headers to that we can keep compiling packages against openssl3. I'm mentioning this because in the previous openssl transitions there were ideas to do things in which things are dropped from the headers, making re-compilation impossible. We need to retain this ability for the duration of the release where the compat package is available, so that we can always recompile packages for updates.

+1

+1

+1

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