As previously mentioned[1] FreeBSD 14.0 will include OpenSSL 3.0. We expect to merge the update to main in the near future (within the next week or two) and are ready for wider testing.
Supported by the FreeBSD Foundation, Pierre Pronchery has been working on the update in the src tree, with assistance from Enji Cooper (ngie@), and me (emaste@). Thanks to Antoine Brodin (antoine@) and Muhammad Moinur Rahman (bofh@) for ports exp-runs and fixes/workarounds and to Dag-Erling (des@) for updating ldns in the base system. ## Base system compatibility status Most of the base system is ready for a seamless switch to OpenSSL 3.0. For several components we've added `-DOPENSSL_API_COMPAT=0x10100000L` to CFLAGS to specify the API version, which avoids deprecation warnings from OpenSSL 3.0. Changes have also been made to avoid OpenSSL APIs already deprecated in OpenSSL 1.1. We can continue the process of updating to contemporary APIs after OpenSSL 3.0 is in the tree. Additional changes are still required for libarchive and seven Kerberos-related libraries or tools. Workarounds are ready to go along with the OpenSSL 3 import, and proper fixes are in progress in the upstream projects. A segfault from `openssl x509` in the i386 ports exp-run is under investigation and needs to be addressed prior to the merge. ## Ports compatibility With bofh@'s recent www/node18 and www/node20 patches the ports tree is in reasonable shape for OpenSSL 3.0 in the base system. The exp-run (link below) has a list of the failing ports, and I've emailed all of the maintainers as a heads-up. None of the remaining failures are responsible for a large number of skipped ports (i.e., the failures are either leaf ports or are responsible for only a small number of skipped ports). I expect that some or many of these will need to be addressed after the change lands in the src tree. ## Call for testing We welcome feedback from anyone willing to test the work in progress. Pierre's update can be obtained from the pull request[2] or by fetching the branch[3]. If desired I will provide a large diff against main. ## Links - Base system OpenSSL 3.0 update tracking PR: https://bugs.freebsd.org/271615 - Ports exp-run with OpenSSL 3.0 in the base system: https://bugs.freebsd.org/271656 [1] https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2023-May/003609.html [2] https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/760 [3] https://github.com/khorben/freebsd-src/tree/khorben/openssl-3.0.9
