On Wed, Oct 14, 2026 at 08:16:42PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: >... > OpenSSL 4 landet in Ubuntu 26.10. They declared the transition is over. > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-October/043664.html >...
They are in the lucky position that 26.10 EOL is before the forky release, it's not a big problem for them that EOL of 4.0 is 3 years before the EOL of openssl/trixie. Which means it doesn't help with the old question[1] whether the release team commits to having the transition+toolchain freeze after April to accomodate 4.2 LTS in forky, or how else security support for OpenSSL in forky is planned. openssl/trixie is upstream supported until April 2030, and while I understand that you hate me for mentioning that downgrading to 3.5 would be an option for getting OpenSSL security support in forky, that would also be an option. 4.0 will be EOL before the release of forky and 4.1 in a year,[2] so being stuck with 4.1 would be a problem. As already mentioned this is not a one-off issue, OpenSSL plans to start their LTS branches every 2 years in April of our release years.[3] My point here is that whatever the result may be, this needs an explicit decision regarding whether OpenSSL 4.2 fits into the forky release schedule before a transition to OpenSSL 4. > Sebastian cu Adrian [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1140179#12 [2] https://openssl-library.org/policies/releasestrat/index.html [3] https://openssl-library.org/post/2026-05-07-future-release/
