Believe it or not, it’s time to start the election process for the
2026 Foundation Business Advisory Committee (FBAC). Advisory
committees play a critical role in the governance of the OpenSSL
Foundation. This committee focuses on
the strategic direction of the OpenSSL Foundation and our
mission.
Each of the six communities (Academics, Committers, Distributions,
Individuals, Large Businesses and Small Businesses) will have a
representative who will serve for one year. In addition to a monthly
meeting, representatives also lead discussions on the Communities
platform and generally promote
the OpenSSL Mission.
Lightship Security, an Applus+ Laboratories company and accredited cryptographic security test laboratory, and the OpenSSL Corporation, the co-maintainer of the OpenSSL Library, announce the submission of OpenSSL version 3.5.4 to the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) for FIPS 140-3 validation.
This submission confirms that the code is complete and that all included algorithms have successfully passed NIST testing and independent laboratory review. The final CMVP review and certificate issuance remain as the last step in the process.
The final release of OpenSSL 3.6 is now live. We would like to thank all those who contributed to the OpenSSL 3.6 release, without whom the OpenSSL Library would not be possible.
zl523856 started by submitting an
issue that asking
about the proposed change. The pull request includes some assembly code that improves the performance of the AES-128-CBC decryption algorithm on the RISC-V architecture. It’s not the sort of code that just anyone can write. Open source projects, such as OpenSSL, can benefit from one-time contributions of expertise. In turn, anyone who uses OpenSSL or products that include the library also benefit. It’s a beautiful thing.
The OpenSSL Project is pleased to announce that OpenSSL 3.6 Alpha1 pre-release is released and adding significant new functionality to
OpenSSL Library.
In July, 58 pull
requests
were approved for merge into the OpenSSL Library code base. There were
also four people who contributed code for the first time:
So far in the development cycle of OpenSSL 3.6, the plurality of
changes
come from developers paid by either the OpenSSL Corporation or
Foundation. But individual contributions continue to make up a large
proportion of commits (41%) and overall changes (28%). Additionally
individual committers also have done 18.5% of reviews so far.
Early Bird registration is now open for the inaugural OpenSSL Conference, taking place from October 7 to 9, 2025, in Prague, Czech Republic. Take advantage of exclusive Early Bird rates and secure your spot now!
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