Re: minor version compatibility

2011-05-11 Thread Kenneth Goldman
owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org wrote on 05/10/2011 06:52:26 PM: > From: "Dr. Stephen Henson" > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Date: 05/10/2011 06:57 PM > > The answer is "probably yes" but with some caveats. > > If the application is well behaved and doesn't rely on undocumented features > o

Re: minor version compatibility

2011-05-10 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Tue, May 10, 2011, Ken Dreyer wrote: > I'm pretty sure this is "yes", but I don't see it documented anywhere. > > Are the various minor versions of OpenSSL binary compatible? For > example, if I built Apache's mod_ssl against a previous 0.9.8 release, > and I update my system to 0.9.8r, will e

Re: minor version compatibility

2011-05-10 Thread Kenneth Goldman
My experience is more "probably" than "yes". I recall cases where it did not. It's also hard to test, because it might fail some corner case that you don't use often. owner-openssl-us...@openssl.org wrote on 05/10/2011 05:12:33 PM: > From: Ken Dreyer > To: openssl-users@openssl.org > Date: 05/

minor version compatibility

2011-05-10 Thread Ken Dreyer
I'm pretty sure this is "yes", but I don't see it documented anywhere. Are the various minor versions of OpenSSL binary compatible? For example, if I built Apache's mod_ssl against a previous 0.9.8 release, and I update my system to 0.9.8r, will everything work? - Ken