The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching.
Alpha freeze approaching
The freeze date for OpenSSL 3.4 Alpha is rapidly approaching. Planned features are viewable on our 3.4 Planning page. If you have a feature on the planning page, please ensure that your associated PRs are posted, reviewed, and merged prior to the freeze date (Friday, Aug 30, 2024), or it will be postponed until the next release.
As part of our ongoing journey, OpenSSL is evolving to provide more opportunities for engagement that more effectively align with our mission statement and promote our values. OpenSSL is implementing various mechanisms to foster greater community involvement and enable our communities to play a key and active role in the decision-making process.
New Governance Framework
OpenSSL has two independent, co-equal organizations to support the OpenSSL Mission:
This balanced approach ensures that both entities can operate independently and make decisions autonomously.
Note that this position has now been filled and we are no longer accepting applications
OpenSSL is hiring for a Fundraiser to join our team
We are seeking a Fundraiser to join our team. As a Fundraiser at OpenSSL, you will play a vital role in sustaining critical components of internet infrastructure that enable secure communications around the world. In addition to your fundraising role, you must align with and uphold our core values and mission in your every day professional activities. This role will require you to have strong networks and relationships with our various sponsors, customers and communities in order to help us identify and bring on board new sponsors for our project as well as maintain our existing ones. You will also hold significant responsibility for developing our sponsorship and fundraising program in order to ensure that our sponsors are getting good value from their engagement with us whilst at the same time maximizing the resources available to OpenSSL to further develop and expand.
Secure communication is vital in today’s digital world, but it sometimes slows down your applications. We invite you to an insightful webinar on optimizing application performance using OpenSSL. This session is designed for individuals seeking to enhance the security and efficiency of their applications.
Date: August 1, 2024
Time: 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Platform: Zoom
Topic: Performance Tuning with OpenSSL
Registration Link: Click here to register
We are announcing a change in how communication and collaboration will take place within the OpenSSL community. Effective August 1st, 2024, the OpenSSL mailing lists will migrate to Google Groups. This transition is designed to streamline communication channels and simplify our infrastructure.
Over the years, the combintation of Postfix and Mailman has served us well, but it’s time to move on and explore better options. Google Groups offers several advantages that align with our goals:
OpenSSL is cleaning up its issue backlog
Recently, some may have noticed issues (particularly old ones) in the openssl repository have received an update, having the ‘inactive’ label applied to them with a comment indicating that they will be closed at the end of the 3.4 development cycle. OpenSSL currently has almost 2000 outstanding issues in its issue list, many of which have been sitting idle for multiple years. In an effort to better plan and schedule work for the OpenSSL development team, it has become increasingly clear that, to do so efficiently, the issue list must be reduced, so as to better identify those issues which are impacting the larger user base more visibly for planning purposes.
New OpenSSL patch releases are available
OpenSSL is soliciting input on a hardening effort for our library. The details can be found here: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/discussions/24321
We are pleased to announce our upcoming webinar, Getting Started with QUIC and OpenSSL.
In this brief yet comprehensive session, we’ll dive into the basics of QUIC and guide you through implementing a simple client using the QUIC OpenSSL API. By the end of this webinar, you’ll have a solid grasp of creating a client application that connects to a server and receives data. Our demo client may be straightforward, but it serves as the perfect playground to explore and observe the QUIC protocol in action. Get ready to see QUIC in motion and discover the tools to monitor its performance effectively!
OpenSSL would like to announce the publication of the final report of a recent security audit conducted on the OpenSSL software library.