Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012, Mike Frysinger wrote: >> i'm not looking for downstream workarounds here but rather the right answer. >> >> is openssl-1.0.1 expected to be ABI compatible with openssl-1.0.0 ? > > Yes. In brief the versioning scheme introduced with 1.0.0 is: > > Changes to last letter: security and bugfix only, no new features. > E.g. 1.0.0->1.0.0a > Changes to last number: new ABI compatible features. > E.g. 1.0.0->1.0.1 > Changes to middle number: major release, ABI compatibility not guaranteed. > E.g. 1.0.0->1.1.0
btw, are there any plans to use symbol versioning on systems that support it? cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
