On Fri, Oct 20, 2023, Adrien Nader wrote: > Hi, > > A few weeks ago, openssl maintainers announced moving to a time-based > release (April and October): > > https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/09/29/OpenSSL-Update-ICMC23/ > > > Key takeaway 3 : Time Based Release Policy > > We’re transitioning to time-based releases. This shift ensures > > predictability, allowing our users and developers to plan better and > > benefit from timely updates. The releases will be scheduled every > > April and October. > > Based on this and the openssl 3.0 release date, I'd expect a new LTS > version to be released (almost) in time for 26.04 but not for 24.04. > > *IF* an openssl LTS release is out in April 26.04, we might want to > track the corresponding openssl git branch during the 26.04 release in > order to be able to ship it. This is more than two years away however > and a lot can happen until then. I don't have a crystal ball > unfortunately. In any case, we'll know if the planned and the actual > release cadence and calendar match.
Dimitri asked me for some more details so I dug a bit more. It's actually better explained in a better blog post from late August: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2023/08/27/steps-forward > We’re also shifting how we release the OpenSSL library. We’ve adopted > a time-based release policy, with releases every April and October. > After our 3.2 release in October, our 3.3 release in April next year > will be our first time-based release, marking our initial venture into > this approach. And the release policy has been updated too: https://www.openssl.org/policies/general/release-policy.html > Planning: Continuous process, provides input to the Release Definition phase. > Release Definition: Defines release backlog, lasts up to 4 weeks. > Development: Execution of the release backlog, spans from 20 to 24 weeks. > Release: Addressing issues discovered by the community in pre-releases. Up to > 6 weeks. > Support: A support phase. If they follow their plan, we'd therefore have pre-release versions several weeks before Ubuntu releases. Of course, feature freeze concerns apply if the pre-release isn't out in time. That's all I've seen so far (OK, I didn't dig that much). We'll see very soon how that turns out in practice for the 3.2 release. -- Adrien -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
