Apart from normal business, such as normal reviews, OMC business, normal system administration tasks, etc., key activities this month:
* Development - Deprecated the "hw" configuration option and made "padlockeng" disablable (PR openssl/openssl#8380) - Finalized addition of generic trace API together with Matthias St Pierre (PR openssl/openssl#8198) - Finalized work on the basics for OpenSSL 3.0 replumbing: provider object (PRs openssl/openssl#8287) - Finalized work on the OpenSSL 3.0 core: generic method constructor (PR openssl/openssl#8340) - Finalized work on the OpenSSL 3.0 EVP: constructor for EVP methods (PR openssl/openssl#8341) - Reviewed the added OSSL_PARAM API (PR openssl/openssl#8451) - Reviewed further trace API work (PR openssl/openssl#8463) - Added mechanism for fallback providers and pre-populating the provider store with well known providers ("default") (PR openssl/openssl#8480) - Reviewed the addition of chacha20 and poly1305 assembler for ia64 (PR openssl/openssl#8540) - Finally remove everything that has to do with "heartbeats" (PR openssl/openssl#1928) - Started work on the OpenSSL 3.0 core: config module for providers (PR openssl/openssl#8549) - Started work on OSSL_PARAM name registration and checking (PR openssl/openssl#8461) - Started work on tidying our common perl scripts (PR openssl/openssl#8525) - [unpublished] Started work on flexible installation commands for Makefiles - [unpublished] Continued work on flexible building commands for Makefiles * Web - Published the OpenSSL 3.0 Design document (PR openssl/web#113) - Reworked the release strategy to include the version scheme for OpenSSL 3.0 and on; generalised the criteria for alpha, beta and release; reviewed the new stability policy (PR openssl/web#82) - Reviewed the added extended support contract information (PR openssl/web#122) - Reworked web site building to centralise release information (PR openssl/web#120) -- Richard Levitte levi...@openssl.org OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org/~levitte/