[OE-core] openssl: OpenSSL 1.1.x update

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi Raymond,

On Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:11:59 Tan, Raymond wrote:
> Greetings, I would like to know if there is any plan / schedule to upgrade
> to openssl 1.1.0 into OE-core?

I am not aware of any discussion about this (and my answer shouldn't be 
considered authoritative), however it does look like upgrading to 1.1.0 will 
result in compatibility issues with code that links to OpenSSL, thus I expect 
we would need to evaluate the impact of doing so. In any event we are in 
milestone 4 of the 2.2 release in which as a general rule we do not do version 
upgrades except when absolutely necessary, so the earliest we would look at 
this would be for 2.3.

Note that for 2.2 we have kept up-to-date with OpenSSL releases on the 1.0.2 
branch to date as the risk of compatibility problems across upgrades there is 
significantly lower.

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre